You Don't Need to Survive Your Massage

You don’t need to survive your massage
✧if the pressure is too deep
✧if the pace is too fast
✧if you feel panicky while you’re “supposed” to be relaxing

Your bodywork session is for YOU. To meet your needs. Your body, your nervous system. A massage isn’t something to survive or endure. There’s enough of that in the world.

So if you find yourself pushing through, your bodyworker might be pushing too hard. Or there might be anxiety or big feelings on top of the muscles and tissues (and we’ll get to this part soon, pinky promise). It’s okay to ask for a pause. Ask for less pressure. Ask for more pressure. Change positions. Ask your bodyworker to slow down. Take a moment and get in touch with your breath and what’s coming up for you.

Whatever. You. Need.

It’s okay. Truly. Because a massage is not something to survive.

take your time

I tell my clients after a session: take all the time you need.

Healing can take a lot out of us before it gives back to us and time is a gift we all need. To rest deeply, to process what’s unthinkable, to move through what keeps us feeling stuck.

It doesn’t happen quickly, this healing journey, that much I️ know is true.

So this is my wish for you, in a life that rushes and with people around you (and maybe even the person that is you) fastforwarding your feelings—

Take all the time you need.

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Jess Jackson, Soft Path Healing

Soft Path Healing is trauma-informed bodywork and nervous system nourishment in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Curious about working together? Feel free to be in touch.