03/17/2026
While new to Just Breathe, the Madison massage community has anticipated the return of Lauren as she took the time to stay home with her children. Now she's back in the treatment room and better than ever! Here's a little about Lauren in her won words.
Greetings everyone! My name is Lauren Destine. I have been an Alabama Licensed Massage Therapist for 10 years, since 2016. I'm originally from Decatur, Alabama and been a resident of Huntsville since 2022. Massage Therapy has truly been a calling to me and a way to serve others by contributing to each and every client's wellness! Before becoming an LMT, after I graduated high school in 2012, I had absolutely no clue what I wanted to do or was even sure if I wanted to take the college route. I worked a couple of restaurant jobs for 3 years until I finally decided I wanted something different. Being in the customer service industry made me realize my purpose to extend a helping hand to others, and changing a person's day makes my day much better, even if I'm not having the best day. Also some of my coworkers told me they loved my mini massages during breaks and after a long day of work. From that day a fiery passion was lit inside me and I decided to pursue massage therapy! In January of 2015, I enrolled into the Therapeutic Massage Phrogram at Virginia College in Huntsville and graduated in January of 2016. From then on my love for massage therapy and each client I've had on the table has grown more and more throughout the years! Within that time span I've dove into learning more about deep tissue techniques, hot stone massage, prenatal massage, cupping, utilizing the hypervolt percussion gun, cold stones, and also many different stretching techniques. My next service I would love to learn about that's recently been becoming popular is the Bamboo Fusion massage!
On top of that you can never go wrong with incorporating the many aromas of essential oils to enhance relaxation and relief. My favorite oil will always be lavender 💜 it never fails to relax me anytime of the day and even put me to sleep.
The longer the session the longer you can relax, breathe, and release! I love to work in 90-120 mins sessions to focus on the clients needs, goals they like to achieve, and overall come out of the session feeling much different than when they walked in. If it plants a seed in them to say to themselves that they should make massage a part of their health journey, then I feel that I've accomplished my daily goal! I've heard this saying so many times before and it 100% surely applies to the massage world:
"If you don't take the time to take care of your body, then soon your body will force you to make the time."
I didn't understand how much truth it was to that saying until I got further in my massage career. With that being said, to maintain myself being a therapist and prolong being in the career I like to take time out to get myself a massage, do some stretching, go outside and walk, and drink my water. Outside of my time being a massage therapist I am a wife and mom at home to my two beautiful kids. When the weather is nice we love to go outside and take some time to walk and play around. They even love to get a mommy massage every so often lol. On my down time I love to watch new movies, hang out with my family, go out to eat, sing karaoke, and cook.
It if was within my power at the snap of a finger I would make therapeutic massage a part of any and all health insurance, globally. It disappoints me that massage is mostly looked at as recreational and luxurious, when its so many health benefits and healing that made a positive impact on numerous clients. I do believe with more time therapeutic massage will surely be seen worthy enough to be included in more health insurance policies!
I now have been given the amazing opportunity to work at Just Breathe Massage with an awesome team/family. I'm very devoted to my faith and prayer life and I wholeheartedly believe God has given me this opportunity to be able to continue on in my career and as well as have time with my kids at home. For the past 2 years I've taken a break from massage to be at home and devote time to my kids. I'm so grateful to still give time to massage part-time. And possible, give more time to it again in the future. This career has been so rewarding to me in many ways and along with having the pleasure of meeting so many amazing people in the process from fellow therapists, colleagues, coworkers, clients, and friends! I pray to continue on in this career as long as possible, keep learning different modalities, and to continue to serve my clients to the best of my ability! Thank you for welcoming me with open arms and entrusting me to help be a part of your health journey! 😊
