Ashlyn Thatcher Healing Arts

04/28/2022

Hello, everybody. I have a bittersweet announcement to make.

I will be leaving the practice and heading to SE Alaska for the summer to pursue another opportunity, and I won't be back until mid-late September. I want to thank everybody for the support while I opened this small business, yet due to personal and professional reasons I have to place my efforts elsewhere for the 2022 Summer Season. I look forward to returning to Dadeville to see what the fall and winter has in store!

Thank you very much, and all of my best,

Ashlyn Thatcher

04/16/2022

Just another peaceful day at the practice! Don’t forget I’m open on saturdays for all those who can’t make it during the week. Spend your weekend taking care of yourself with me!

03/29/2022

With spring kicking off, I think a lot of our self-care routines are changing for the busy season ahead. Upping your work-out routine is a great thing, but getting over that first hurdle can lead to a lot of sore muscles and joints. Don't forget that rest and repair are just as important as work and development! Massage therapy is the perfect compliment to your work-out routine!

03/16/2022

This is what your massage therapists sees when they look at your neck! When you come with a kink, knot, or pinched nerve, we're thinking about all of your intricate muscle groups when we work on you. I love these body-paint illustrations, a fantastic perspective of the wonderous human body.

03/16/2022

Welcome to your private spa in Holiday Shores!

03/08/2022

We are ready to see you for your massage appointment!

01/13/2022

A really great passage on the meaning of servitude.

"In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might consider. Perhaps the real question is not how can I help? but how can I serve?

Serving is different from helping. Helping is based on inequality; it is not a relationship between equals. When you help you use your own strength to help those of lesser strength. If I'm attentive to what's going on inside of me when I'm helping, I find that I'm always helping someone who's not as strong as I am, who is needier than I am. People feel this inequality. When we help we may inadvertently take away from people more than we could ever give them; we may diminish their self-esteem, their sense of worth, integrity and wholeness. When I help I am very aware of my own strength. But we don't serve with our strength, we serve with ourselves. We draw from all of our experiences. Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve. The wholeness in us serves the wholeness in others and the wholeness in life. The wholeness in you is the same as the wholeness in me. Service is a relationship between equals.

Helping incurs debt. When you help someone they owe you one. But serving, like healing, is mutual. There is no debt. I am as served as the person I am serving. When I help I have a feeling of satisfaction. When I serve I have a feeling of gratitude. These are very different things.

Serving is also different from fixing. When I fix a person I perceive them as broken, and their brokenness requires me to act. When I fix I do not see the wholeness in the other person or trust the integrity of the life in them. When I serve I see and trust that wholeness. It is what I am responding to and collaborating with.

There is distance between ourselves and whatever or whomever we are fixing. Fixing is a form of judgment. All judgment creates distance, a disconnection, an experience of difference. In fixing there is an inequality of expertise that can easily become a moral distance. We cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch. This is Mother Teresa's basic message. We serve life not because it is broken but because it is holy."

--Rachel Naomi Remen"

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