The great news for you is I have more time available in the evenings now, and there is still Saturday if your week is just too full!

You can book Monday – Friday from 6am – 8am or 4pm – 8pm and Saturdays from 6am – 5pm.

Call me or book online by clicking the gray “book online” link on the left side of my Schedule a Massage Page.

Looking forward to seeing you!
Angie

Autism affects the whole family.

Mothers often feel the impact of autism in their child more personally than others in the family unit and bear the brunt of responsibility.

Studies show that, for dads, the personal effect of a child’s autism is the stress it adds to their wife.

As I think on these points, the more conviced I am that Massage Therapy for mom is a great way to help a family be proactive in the nurturing and care of the entire family affected by a child with autism.

Nobody questions the challenge it is to raise children, and it can be exhausting without support. Having an autistic child adds to the emotional stress a mother is experiencing.

Studies done by the National Autistic Society on families with autistic children show:

~ feelings of being on an emotional roller-coaster
~ sleep deprivation is common
~ significantly elevated stress levels in mothers
~ mothers bear the heaviest weight of responsibility

So what can they do about it? As a mom, you need time to recharge yourself for the duties laid before you. Planning simple pleasures such as taking a bath, a walk with your husband or sharing a glass of wine with a friend can be helpful. Massage Therapy can help as well.

Massage relieves the effects of stress:
~triggers the relaxation response
~ relaxes tense muscles
~ reduces anxiety levels
~ improves immune system functioning
~ promotes restful sleep
~ releases “feel-good” hormones: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin

Massage alleviates problem conditions:
~ tension headaches
~ muscular back pain
~ stress and anxiety
~ general muscle tension & aches

If the mom of a child with autism could recieve massage and thereby sleep better, feel better, and deal better with life – how wonderful would that be?!

Massage is a great way to give your body the rest and rejuvenation it needs. Probably the simplest benefit of massage for moms is that is focused on YOU! Moms give and give and give and sometimes it feels like we are never on the receiving end. A massage offers you time away, time to reflect, time to zone out, or time to chat with an adult! Massage obviously alleviates pain, but did you know it also enhances immunity, lessons depression and anxiety, and releases endorphins? Taking care of yourself helps you to better take care of others!

Head into fall with a well rested body – receive a massage – help yourself be all the mom that you can be!

Chasing the kids on the other hand will not end in my forseeable future and that comes with all kinds of pulls and strains on this ever aging body. I consider myself to be something of a momma kangaroo with 3 children at different ages who all need momma very badly [if you have no idea what I am talking about check out how kangaroos mother here (I can not find the original article that made me think "I am so like that, minus nursing three babies", but this is the shortened version anyway)]. Babies are one thing, but I also have my older boys whom often need stuff built, taken apart, lifted (including the boys themselves into trees or onto rocks too high from them to reach), etc. all of which requires muscles I long since have forgotten that I have. I go forward however with the activity to prove that mom is of some use when dad is not around to fix the “problem at hand”.

Tonight the reason that made me want a massage was simply the stress I have undertaken being online after my bedtime trying to order some materials for the upcoming school year. 3 times the site froze up on me and “stopped responding”. So now it is 11pm and I have no materials to show for my time online. Tomorrow I will just call the company and order, and maybe a friend to trade a massage!