Barbara Searles is a talented massage therapist who practices integrative massage – and we were honored to have her as our guest on the Stretch Your Mind and Body Talk Show.  Barbara spoke at length about using massage as therapy instead of remedial work. Unfortunately most of us wait till we are in pain before we seek help and make time for ourselves.

Massage is a wonderful tool that anyone can use to maintain their health and wellbeing – and not just use when things go wrong. Massage is great for nurturing yourself, human touch is soothing and calming, no matter how stressed out you are.

Your body is a finely tuned engine, and it is necessary to keep up the maintenance – so it makes sense to receive regular ’services’ – massage is one way of providing that regular service and looking after your body.  Regular doesn’t have to mean weekly, bi-weekly or monthly either…. it can mean 3 or 4 times a year.  The thing is to make the appointments BEFORE you feel you need the therapy. (more…)