Jenerous Bodycare

11/03/2022

There are different kinds of headaches and migraines. There's even a diagnosis of silent migraine. If you have a diagnosis of a specific type of migraine or headache, I'd love to hear your story your symptoms whatever you feel like sharing about what's working or not to treat symptoms. Feel free to DM to chat or please comment here if you're wanting to explore this conversation in a larger group. Wouldn't online support be helpful from time to time? Since these damn screens could be blamed for about 50% of our stress anyway?
I think ha/mig is often under diagnosed. I'm not the one to diagnose obviously ✌️I just rub out the kinks and help the body digest pain and inflammation 💆‍♀️🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🔥🌧️💫 so grateful to be able to do that for people to the best of my learning capabilities during this crazy world shift and amidst a highly stressful time for us all.

Vascular headache is an outdated term. These headaches are now classified as migraines, cluster headaches, and illness-related headaches.

01/28/2021

I'm no mental health guru but I'm pretty sure it all starts with how we talk to ourselves.

I've discovered my inner critic to be a force to be reckoned with, a wild ego-filled, dripping with guilt and shame, stubborn old hag.
In the words of Samuel L Jackson in the movie Pulp Fiction, "I told you this B #@*& was crazy!" Maybe you can relate.

Thank you for this list on how to battle the inner critic. Always important work.

I think many people get run down and forlorn during times of collective stress. In the wake of 2020 with a worldwide pandemic, death, illness and fear of illness, lockdowns, economic downfalls, recent child suicides, the neverending intense divisiveness in the political climate, the public health questions, we come up for air and take stock. Let us not let the heavy load of emotional, mental, and physical stress make us turn on ourselves. I continually search for what I CAN control today, in this moment. It starts with how I talk to myself. From there I can take action. I've also found more self-compassion leads to greater compassion for others. Whether I agree with them, understand them, like them or not.

We are still all in this together. Whether you feel unified or not, I love you and I hope you find self-love today too. Keep sharing that kindness with others. We all need it.

01/26/2021

I've been carrying this quote around on a little piece of origami paper for years. I had picked it up at a therapist's office and I don't know who wrote it. But I like it. Does it resonate with you too? What in your system needs to be remembered, connected, unified with the rest of us?

"Healing is remembering what has been forgotten about connection, and unity, and interdependence among all things living and nonliving"

01/26/2021

MOOOving and grooving in imnaha 10 days and counting. Here's us sharing the road with the locals on the 24 mile gravel road to home

12/14/2020

Regretfully, my massage practice is now set on hold for some months...again. Partly this is due to the rising COVID cases in King County, and because I want to quarantine to spend time with my family for Christmas. Then, in the new year, my fiance, Charles and I are going to hibernate near Joseph, Oregon. I will keep you in the loop of my plans but as of now, we plan on being back in March. There is also a possibility of coming back in February for a week to work. I hope to massage again soon! In the meantime, I plan to be more active on this page with self-care tips and stress and migraine hacks. Also, our products are available at the Jenerous Bodycare shop! Check out our Self Compassion Tool Kit! It makes a great stocking stuffer for anyone needing some extra TLC! Happy Holidays, stay safe and healthy my friends.

12/14/2020

Happy hollydays! We got crafty yesterday and made a wreath with cedar and holly branches, and those wild pronged garden weeds I still don't know the name of. And the frame was from an old busted massage table that was destined for the dump. Turns out that plywood was perfect for the cause! I think it turned out pretty great! Kinda wild and heart shaped but I like it.

11/12/2020

Do you feel like you need a reminder to slow down and reset? Do you want to do something get nice for yourself but feel numb right now? Do you want to do something nice for the essential healthcare workers, or teachers or parents in your life that are facing burnout?

Lisa of and I created the self compassion tool kit full of tools to awaken your senses and return to the present moment. Self compassion can come in many forms, and these are some of our faves. We hope that our kit brings kindness so that you can feel more resilience during these stressful times.

Each kit includes:
❤ a meditation card which reads: how can I nourish myself with kindness in this moment?
❤a rose quartz heart opening stone
❤lotion bars made with coconut oil, st John's wort, Shea butter and beeswax to moisturize your sweet bod
❤ frankincense essential oil for your diffuser or to num up your massage, for uplifting mood and awakening spirit connection

☝Click on the linktree in my bio to purchase the kit.

This week is . It's a great reminder to me to acknowledge these powerhouses. Help me celebrate all the Nurses, docs, and especially nurse practitioners by entering my drawing for a free kit this week!

You can enter by:
💖Liking this post
💖follow me or follow Lisa
💖Tag a essential health care worker, teacher, parent, or anyone you know who my need this right now
💖Comment with one piece of gratitude about the essential health care workers in your lif

The drawing will be done on Friday evening, November 13th! I'll give away 3 kits. Good luck!

11/10/2020

Do you ever feel like you need reminder to slow down and reset? Do you want to do something get nice for yourself but feel numb right now? Do you want to do something nice for the essential healthcare workers, or teachers or parents in your life that are facing burnout?

Lisa and I created the self compassion tool kit full of tools to awaken senses and return to the present moment. Self compassion can come in many forms, and these are some of our faves. We hope that our kit brings kindness so that you can feel more resilience during these times.

Heres a quick video highlighting our kit's components.

Click on the linktree in my bio to purchase the self compassion tool kit for or a valued essential worker, teacher, elder, friend, parent student, or the one and only amazing YOU!

This week is . It's a great reminder to me to acknowledge these powerhouses. Help me celebrate all the Nurses, docs, and especially nurse practitioners by entering my drawing for a free kit!

You can enter by:
Liking this post
Tag a essential health care worker you know
Comment with one piece of gratitude about the essential health care workers in your life
Tag a teacher or parent you love
Comment with gratitude about the teacher or parent in your life
The drawing will be done on Friday evening, November 10! I'll give away 3 kits. Good luck!

10/08/2020

If you're feeling touch deprived during these months, you're not alone. Research here shows that a soothing stroke on your skin at 3 cm/second sends positive neurotransmitters to your brain. I'm a big fan of self massage right now, for myself and promoting this to clients. Not everyone is ready for massage therapy again, but you have your hands ready and waiting for you!

08/25/2020

Keeping our hearts open and our minds clear is no small feat during difficult times. All forms of stress can drown out our senses and cloud our awareness. Self-kindness and compassion can fall by the wayside.

I'm thrilled to share the launch of our Self-Compassion Tool Kit for you. Use this kit to help inspire self-compassion during stressful moments. These simple mind-body-spirit tools guide us to the present moment by creating a loving sensory experience and invoking a meditative awareness practice.

This kit is for you to place on your bedside table, altar, or carry in your purse or car as a reminder to return to self-compassion. These make great gifts for essential workers, teachers, healthcare providers, elders, friends and loved ones who need extra love right now. 💙❤️🌿🦋🙏

This has been a labor of love and creativity with one of my oldest best friends and newest business venture partners Lisa Dunlap of Self-Compassion Connections. Small business ownership during the COVID-19 pandemic days/ economic downfall taught us to dig deep for our own greatest self-compassion tools, and we're excited to share them with you!

Please DM me for purchase and shipping details.

08/24/2020

Keeping our hearts open and our minds clear is no small feat during difficult times. All forms of stress can drown out our senses and cloud our awareness. Self-kindness and compassion can fall by the wayside.

I'm thrilled to share the launch of our Self-Compassion Tool Kit for you. Use this kit to help inspire self-compassion during stressful moments. These simple mind-body-spirit tools guide us to the present moment by creating a loving sensory experience and invoking a meditative awareness practice.

This kit is for you to place on your bedside table, altar, or carry in your purse or car as a reminder to return to self-compassion. These make great gifts for essential workers, teachers, healthcare providers, elders, friends and loved ones who need extra love right now.

This has been a labor of love and creativity with one of my oldest best friends and newest business venture partners Lisa Dunlap of Self-Compassion Connections. Small business ownership during the COVID-19 pandemic days/ economic downfall taught us to dig deep for our own greatest self-compassion tools, and we're excited to share them with you!

05/09/2020

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Here is a recording of the 75 min zoom call from the self care oils 101 class this morning. It’s a thorough dive into why we love essential oils, why young living, why now. Also most importantly what do each of the 13 oils in the starter kit do for us? Plus some other self care strategies. Reach out to me if you need oils people! I got your back! Thank you Sharon Mead and Julie Christina for your support and guidance here!

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05/08/2020

Are essential oils safe? Are they effective? Are they therapeutic? Big questions out there on this topic. Of course, I think you know I'm biased, as I LOVE Oils. One drop of essential oil contains 40 million trillion plant molecules. Smelling anything goes from our olfactory nerve and directly to the limbic system, an emotional center of the central nervous system. They have the potential to be very effective, but knowing how to use them is very important! I encourage clients to start "low and slow" with essential oils. It's all sensory learning. Trusting our bodies' senses is part of the journey. Also, the highest quality oils is upmost importance. This article shows support from a pharmacist in Nebraska for the joint usage alongside pharmaceuticals. A wonderful client shared this with me, and I'm glad he did. I will continue my search for more articles/case studies showing the blending of eastern and western medicine as safe and therapeutic. If you come across any, please share with us here as well!

KEARNEY, Neb. (KHGI) — They've been used for thousands of years as alternative medicine and now medical experts say they could be beneficial in boosting your overall health. “We know that essential oils can be very, very useful to folks," said Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at....

05/06/2020

Time to Talk More Self-Care tools

A forced slow down is bringing a lot of deeper emotions to the surface.

Am I seizing the opportunity for re-wiring or repeating negative behaviors?

Are the emotions building up to a point of physical stress or disease manifestation?

We are in unknown un-chartered territory. We have a choice every day to invoke positive emotions instead of slinking into worry, fear, grief, anger. Is there room for one more degree of self-compassion and sensory experience to get out of fight or flight and purge toxic emotions?

The aroma of an essential oil goes directly to the limbic system, the emotional and memory forming center of the brain. The logic center, prefrontal cortex doesn't even need to compute it in order to start affecting a negative emotion.

I got interested in essential oils for these reasons and more a few years back. As a massage therapist, I saw the beautiful body’s terrain with skin as largest organ beckoning me for more nurturing, more hydration, more synergy. I started infusing massage oils and body butters with these oils to add value for my clients. I started diffusing them at work and home. Slowly and first. Lavender at night. Peppermint on the back of my neck with a tension headache. Frankincense for anxiety. I swapped out thieves household cleaner for the toxic version that was giving me a headache. I read more. I tried different ones, trusted my intuition and senses to guide me. One of my favorite parts of essential oils is we learn them by experiential learning. Our sense of smell is powerful!

My Next Essential oil class is this Saturday, May 9 at 10am. Whether you are an experienced oiler or brand new and curious, we would love to have you there to ask questions and share experiences with this plant wisdom. Also we will have free give aways for MOTHER'S DAY! whoo hoo!

Oils 101 for Self-Care

Time: May 9, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81663874396

Meeting ID: 816 6387 4396

04/06/2020

Sending lots of light and love to you in your home space today! As we all grapple with a new normal, we find ways to cope, de-stress, connect, transmute, Be. If you are inspired to deep clean and organize your home these days, you may be interested in joining me on zoom today at 2pm! I'm interviewing my friend Allison Faye Nelson, the Space Shaman. She is a personal organizer and tarot card reader.

Topic: Insight Session with Allison Faye Nelson
Time: Apr 6, 2020 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Meeting ID: 857 192 245

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