TAB Massage and Fitness

02/13/2024

I had the opportunity to sit with my friend, Aleia MacDonald, and chat about how it’s a privilege to being someone’s Health Coach.
Thank you, Aleia!

11/28/2023

Have you ever wondered why I prefer starting you face up for a massage? This is why…
Little things make a BIG difference. Understanding fluid flow routes and pipes is one of those things.

Supply chain logistics or how the body works in healing. Blood flow in. Blood flow out.

You can have a blood flow issue far removed from where your pain is that impacts your ability to heal. Why? You are a closed container. All pipes connect.

Where you release first is a huge deal in how the body reacts to therapy. From a nervous system fight or flight standpoint and how fluids move based on your pressure changing flow.
Like an Uber big deal.

That’s our perspective…Know your flow!!

My books are closed/fully booked until mid January 2024. Get on the waitlist now.
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09/13/2023

20 years ago today, I graduated massage therapy school from Irene’s Myomassolgy Institute

I am deeply grateful for all of my clients that I have been able to serve. It’s truly an honor. I stand of the shoulder of giants, and I too, hope one day to pay it forward.

09/12/2023

04/12/2023

Look what’s coming to TABMASSAGE to increase your vitality and recovery.

📍ELEVATE YOUR SAUNA SESH TO SUPPORT DETOX 📍 Here’s a few tips I’ve learned over the 10 years of using sauna therapy 💁🏼‍♀️

🔗 IN BIO—“ALI20” on Therasage ❤️

💧 HYDRATION: Ensure adequate fluids before, during, and after your sauna session

💧 ELECTROLYTES: Replace electrolytes and minerals pre, during & post sauna sesh (faves in bio)

💧SWEAT ASSIST: If you have trouble sweating, try some freshly brewed ginger tea with fresh squeezed lemon—not only will it elevate core temperature, but ginger is also a diaphoretic and has a hyperthermic response, so encourages perspiration

💧TOWEL OFF: Have a towel ready to swipe off sweat (toxins) as you go and be sure to take a binder to prevent their recirculation + deposition. Shower immediately after for the same reason! 🚿

💧 GO EASY: Start LOW (temp, duration) and build up SLOWLY. I started a decade ago at 90 degrees for 5 minutes and gradually increased my tolerance from there.

My favorite portable sauna here is made from nontoxic bamboo construction.

Some of its features:

✔️ Natural Bamboo Wooden Chair
✔️ Bamboo Infrared Foot Panel
✔️ Built-in Earthing Mat
✔️ Non-Toxic Bamboo Materials
✔️ No VOCs
✔️ No Off-Gassing
✔️ Full Spectrum InfraRed Frequencies

It’s portable and comes in handy for helping detox on the road.

💦 WHY USE SAUNA? 💦 Studies suggest we excrete in sweat:

I. xenoestrogens like bisphenol A (BPA)
2. some heavy metals like aluminum, cobalt, cadmium, & lead
3. some persistent organic pollutants (PCBs)
4. some endocrine disruptors (phthalates)
5. some mold toxins (mycotoxins) like ochratoxin A

It is ESSENTIAL in this increasingly toxic day and age to ensure that we are SWEATING on a regular basis to lower toxic burdens!

02/22/2023

Two rare evening openings! March 1 and March 8 @ 5pm for 60 mins.
Text me 810-844-1283

01/09/2023

Two massage cancelations this week!
Jan 10 @230 for 60
Jan 11 @11:30 for 90
Text me 810-844-1283

12/29/2022

If you had a special holiday meal yesterday, you might be feeling pressure to restrict your eating today.

This is my annual reminder that you don’t need to compensate for your holiday eating, today or any day.

You don’t need to “cleanse” or “make up” for anything.

You don’t need to “work off” the food you ate yesterday.

Your body is well equipped to handle holiday meals—and in fact it’s often the case that the more you try to compensate for what you’ve eaten, the worse your relationship with food tends to become.

(That’s true for people all across the weight spectrum, although the pressure to compensate for your eating is often more intense at higher weights because of weight stigma.)

So this holiday season, I’m wishing you more permission and less punishment, more joy and less guilt, and more in-the-moment eating and less compensatory thinking.

Because you deserve peace, pleasure, and unconditional permission to eat, at the holidays and beyond.

Here’s to freedom and flexibility with food, today and every day,

12/27/2022

REAL FRICKEN TALK ABOUT ‘HEALTH AND WELLNESS’
If my clients all live in a stress-free world…. they’ll have no problem getting results. But that’s not real life.

Because if you’re going through a stressful time, and you’re doing grueling workouts, you’re compounding the stress … Not taking away from it 

Because poor sleep, overwhelming stress, and inadequate recovery are often the REAL reasons people struggle to make healthy lifestyle changes.

Each of these factors negatively affects everything from a person’s mood and energy levels, to their mental and emotional well-being, to their relationships and decision-making ability.

And with all that working against them?

Adopting healthy habits is nearly impossible.

In fact, more and more people are relying on “unhealthy habits”—overeating, exercising less, consuming more alcohol—in order to cope with their high-stress lives.

And, as a consequence, mental and physical health is on a continuing decline for many people.

That’s where I come in.

I have the knowledge, tools, and skills to help anyone overcome their biggest barriers to eating better, moving more, and feeling deep pride in their health and fitness.

I practice evidence-based methods for helping people solve problems like:

Emotional eating
Lack of time
Self sabotage
Mental exhaustion
Night worrying
Procrastination
All-or-nothing thinking
Sleep
Menopause
Peri-menopause
Thyroid, adrenal health, pcos and infertility
Low energy
Counterproductive coping
Self criticism
Insomnia

One tiny, small step at a time
We can do it together
Book your clarity call
Link 👇🏼