Haven Massage & Holistic Therapies

11/14/2025

An airplane off course by just one degree of direction on the compass can land in a dramatically different destination than one whose course is exactly on track.

As I work through the posts this month, one gem to point out is that if you collect, save or take a moment to slow down and process the ideas lined out, genuinely plugging in, you will have a collection of some of really valuable tools in your toolbox.

Regardless if you “win” the fun prizes at the end, there is a great amount of value and progress that can be made with utilizing these simple tips. There will be almost 30 by the time we are done. I hope you are getting use out of them, and feel comfortable asking questions if they come up, as we go.

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11/14/2025

Today's post is a tricky, because the reality is, this may hit the Critical Faculty in our brains. Trigger warning!! 🤪😬 What is the Critical Faculty?

The Critical Faculty is an element in our brain, which decides what we believe, and what we don't. It's a key element in hypnotherapy. When we are alert and attentive, the Critical Faculty is operative. When we relax the mind during hypnotherapy, we seek to bypass this, so we can rewrite the script that often is so harmful to our goals, intentions or wishes.

And the truth is, some of us have a REALLY bad poverty programming. Regardless of our income, will it ever be enough? Or alternatively, have you been programmed to always want or NEED more? Where did that come from?

Matthew 6:28-29 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

I love this verse, because it reminds me that I can be happy regardless of income. "My income is exactly what I need. I love that I can live so fully."

If this one hits your CF, let's talk. Hypnotherapy truly can help poverty programming. We can flip the script.

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For extra fun - for anyone who leaves a comment on these posts marked with the hashtag this month, I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 60 minute session of your choice at the end of the month (November 2025). It could be hypnotherapy, IPT, hot stone massage, or VM/NM treatments.

--> Positive emojis, such as a like or a heart on the post, will be worth 1 entry.
--> Thoughtful comments will be worth 2 entries.
--> A public share to your wall and/or FB story will be worth 3 - just let me know so I can verify it!
--> If you haven't already, "like" or "follow" my page. Let me know you have (either past or present) for 5 entries! Thank you!

Consider saving the graphics I am creating for this series, or sharing with a friend who might need them, especially if they resonate as something useful. I hope it blesses you!

11/13/2025

doTERRA Essential Oils' Holiday Collection is out! I'll be placing my monthly order soon - if you'd like anything, holler back!

The 2025 doTERRA holiday collection is caringly curated with warm, peaceful scents for your friends and family and self-care products to help you and those around you relax all winter.

11/13/2025

Do you struggle with managing your time? Many of my clients are moms, and despite their best efforts, they struggle to stay ahead of their kids' schedules. As kids grow older, it becomes even more challenging, when schedules and routines get even more complicated. Arriving anywhere on time can be a monumental task!

Ecclesiastes 3:1 - To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

Rather than beating yourself up about any inability to arrive prior to anything's start time, recognize that this is a season of life. The chaos will pass, and you're not a terrible human for not arriving early or on time. In fact, try this one?

"I'm a pro at time management. Accomplishing life so smoothly feels great!"

What will it take to make this happen? Some extra planning, or margin in your life? What would it take to smooth out your pace? Let's talk about it in the comments.

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For extra fun - for anyone who leaves a comment on these posts marked with the hashtag this month, I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 60 minute session of your choice at the end of the month (November 2025). It could be hypnotherapy, IPT, hot stone massage, or VM/NM treatments.

--> Positive emojis, such as a like or a heart on the post, will be worth 1 entry.
--> Thoughtful comments will be worth 2 entries.
--> A public share to your wall and/or FB story will be worth 3 - just let me know so I can verify it!
--> If you haven't already, "like" or "follow" my page. Let me know you have (either past or present) for 5 entries! Thank you!

Consider saving the graphics I am creating for this series, or sharing with a friend who might need them, especially if they resonate as something useful. I hope it blesses you!

11/12/2025

Have you ever considered the state of the inside of your body? A lot of us humans have a lot of concerns about our inner health!

I'm a huge advocate and supporter of cleaning out the pipes and the organs, alongside healthy doses of bodywork to help things be fluid and operating optimally.

In terms of rewiring our thinking about this, we can support those efforts with cleansing our thinking and inner programming. Regardless of your diagnosis for what ails you, try repeating this to begin rewiring your inner beliefs about the state of your body's health?

"My body is clean and clear. Good things are inside me." Imagine your inner organs, blood, bones, everything, being freshly cleaned. Go a step further and imagine anything that does not belong, being flushed out gently and safely. How does that feel? I would love to know in the comments.

Psalm 51:7 - Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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For extra fun - for anyone who leaves a comment on these posts marked with the hashtag this month, I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 60 minute session of your choice at the end of the month (November 2025). It could be hypnotherapy, IPT, hot stone massage, or VM/NM treatments.

--> Positive emojis, such as a like or a heart on the post, will be worth 1 entry.
--> Thoughtful comments will be worth 2 entries.
--> A public share to your wall and/or FB story will be worth 3 - just let me know so I can verify it!
--> If you haven't already, "like" or "follow" my page. Let me know you have (either past or present) for 5 entries! Thank you!

Consider saving the graphics I am creating for this series, or sharing with a friend who might need them, especially if they resonate as something useful. I hope it blesses you!

11/11/2025

One of my clients gave me this fun idea. He wished he could have a procedure that could make him permanently smile, because he noticed that when he smiled, it automatically boosted his mood and resilience to life's challenges. It makes him 'depression proof'.

The idea of smiling to help improve mood is actually very sound. When muscle testing, an astute teacher noticed that observing a smile in someone else actually increased the muscular strength in the observer. And observing a frown weakens the observer's muscular strength. This is a compelling argument for the power of showing a beautiful smile, and easily demonstrated.

Today's tip is an encouragement to smile, even if you don't feel like it! Observe that just by smiling, your energy lifts. Try it in the mirror? And if someone is nearby, observe if your smile causes them to smile. Consider a smiling war, or smiling game to see who can smile the longest? See what happens, and let me know in a comment? I'd love to hear about it!

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For extra fun - for anyone who leaves a comment on these posts marked with the hashtag this month, I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 60 minute session of your choice at the end of the month (November 2025). It could be hypnotherapy, IPT, hot stone massage, or VM/NM treatments.

--> Positive emojis, such as a like or a heart on the post, will be worth 1 entry.
--> Thoughtful comments will be worth 2 entries.
--> A public share to your wall and/or FB story will be worth 3 - just let me know so I can verify it!
--> If you haven't already, "like" or "follow" my page. Let me know you have (either past or present) for 5 entries! Thank you!

Consider saving the graphics I am creating for this series, or sharing with a friend who might need them, especially if they resonate as something useful. I hope it blesses you!

11/11/2025

Let’s go!! 🤩

A bright halo coronal mass ejection (CME) is now emerging following the X5.1 solar flare this morning around AR 4274 and energetic proton levels are now on the rise. A radiation storm warning is now in effect. This event could end up being the most energetic Earth facing flare of the current solar cycle according to NOAA/SWPC. The incoming CME will likely prolong an already expected geomagnetic storm and could push it to the Severe (G4) threshold in the days ahead. A further update will be provided once a tracking model and forecast is released. Video of the CME is in the comments.

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11/10/2025

A lot of my clients have hair issues. Thanks to hormones, pregnancy, life changes, COVID... hair loss is actually one of the more common complaints I've heard of in recent years.

While there are a ton of products that could be recommended for treatment of hair loss, let's look at the emotional component. The shock and panic part.

It's easy to understand why anyone who has decent supply of hair would experience a measure of distress if hair begins falling out rapidly. Ironically, the phrases "pulling my hair out" or "making me go grey" are both common phrases we use to describe distress or anxiety. So adding emotion of panic to the situation will NOT help. In fact, it exacerbates it.

So the first thing to do when your hair falls out is flip the script. Observe, and thank your body, for the hair which is graciously intact. Even better if you can do this both with your eyes closed, as well as staring at yourself in the mirror. Feel love for those hair follicles, and pay attention to how loving your scalp feels on your skin's surface. Observe, and feel free to let me know what you notice in a comment!

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For extra fun - for anyone who leaves a comment on these posts marked with the hashtag this month, I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 60 minute session of your choice at the end of the month (November 2025). It could be hypnotherapy, IPT, hot stone massage, or VM/NM treatments.

--> Positive emojis, such as a like or a heart on the post, will be worth 1 entry.
--> Thoughtful comments will be worth 2 entries.
--> A public share to your wall and/or FB story will be worth 3 - just let me know so I can verify it!
--> If you haven't already, "like" or "follow" my page. Let me know you have (either past or present) for 5 entries! Thank you!

Consider saving the graphics I am creating for this series, or sharing with a friend who might need them, especially if they resonate as something useful. I hope it blesses you!

11/08/2025

As if all at once, several of our trees decided to drop their leaves yesterday, giving us a carpet of color on our paths. Maybe they’d had enough of the wind and the rain? I just couldn’t get enough of their vividness. Feel free to drop some pics in the comments of the leaves from your neck of the woods! I would love to see! So pretty. 🥰

11/07/2025

Today's hypno-tip is inspired by literally all of my clients, some of my family, and many of my friends! And of course, myself!

As we begin to look at the muscles and parts of the physical body this month, let me start by saying that our mind really does dictate a majority of the functions of the body's processes. A chronic belief that we are stiff, aging, incapable or dying will inform the muscles to behave that way.

I'm not saying we disbelieve what is a natural part of life, but rather that our thoughts can truly inhibit the possibility of improved function as we live out our lives.

In the case of muscles that are stiff, consider this suggestion to your mind's autopiloting:

My muscles are beautifully flexible. I love how strong they are.

Instead of focusing on pain or stiffness, focus on the truth that the muscle functions for you. Envision it with just a touch more flexibility than yesterday, and then imagine tomorrow will even be more so.

The body inevitably obeys the mind, and the mind obeys your faithful intention, if you let it.

And when in doubt, come get a massage. 😉

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For extra fun - for anyone who leaves a comment on these posts marked with the hashtag this month, I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 60 minute session of your choice at the end of the month (November 2025). It could be hypnotherapy, IPT, hot stone massage, or VM/NM treatments.

--> Positive emojis, such as a like or a heart on the post, will be worth 1 entry.
--> Thoughtful comments will be worth 2 entries.
--> A public share to your wall and/or FB story will be worth 3 - just let me know so I can verify it!
--> If you haven't already, "like" or "follow" my page. Let me know you have (either past or present) for 5 entries! Thank you!

Consider saving the graphics I am creating for this series, or sharing with a friend who might need them, especially if they resonate as something useful. I hope it blesses you!

11/06/2025

When you start any painting, it's important to start with a fresh canvas. In assessing the mind and how it's runs on auto-pilot sometimes, one important tip is to intentionally clear out the critical voice.

The critical voice assesses each move we make with a harsh eye. It often says "you're not good enough", and to be good enough to live well, you need to ____.

I'm not advocating turning off wisdom, or high quality voices here. But to be clear, I'm speaking toward the dark stuff.

Turning off the critical voice, asking it to leave, can be quite powerful.

Try this? Tell your brain physically, and your mind mentally, that it is doing just great. Envision your cranium, and cranial-sacral fluid, in a place of clean balance.

Tell it that you're thankful for it running on full cylinders today. Acknowledge it is doing the best it can to serve you. And ask it to throw out the critical voice. Allow the inner beauty to shine as it was created to.

2 Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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For extra fun - for anyone who leaves a comment on these posts marked with the hashtag this month, I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 60 minute session of your choice at the end of the month (November 2025). It could be hypnotherapy, IPT, hot stone massage, or VM/NM treatments.

--> Positive emojis, such as a like or a heart on the post, will be worth 1 entry.
--> Thoughtful comments will be worth 2 entries.
--> A public share to your wall and/or FB story will be worth 3 - just let me know so I can verify it!
--> If you haven't already, "like" or "follow" my page. Let me know you have (either past or present) for 5 entries! Thank you!

Consider saving the graphics I am creating for this series, or sharing with a friend who might need them, especially if they resonate as something useful. I hope it blesses you!

11/06/2025

Do you ever wake up with a twingy pinch in your neck, at the base of your skull? The kind that makes it hard to look left, or look right? Wonder how to fix it?

Let me introduce you to your Greater and Lesser Occipital Nerves. These nerves come out of your neck at the base of your skull, and travel up through the muscles at the base of your skull. They perforate, meaning pass through, a bit higher in the tissues at the back of the skull, and when pinched by surrounding tissues, they can really cause quite a bit of nerve pain, sometimes chronic.

I've marked these areas with x's and o's. Approximately where I tend to observe this situation, when it happens for me.

By treating the adhered tissues surrounding these nerves through manual techniques, we can get relief for the stuck nerves. Things can get moving again, and have them sliding and gliding like they are built to do.

What does this look like? I apply one finger on a precise spot in the X area, and another finger in the spot in the O area. Hold, listen, follow where the listening takes me, and allow them to release when they are ready. Fun! Easy! Effective!

If you'd like to receive this treatment, please reach out and let's get you some relief! https://havenmassageandholistictherapies.com/discovery-call

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