Employers have been offering Botox, yoga classes, sign-on bonuses and more to acquire new staff in our current labor-shortage market. More and more workers are leaving the workforce, which has left many companies scrambling to maintain existing employees plus secure new hires.
One of the most important things you can do to enhance your joy and understanding of being well is to keep a gratitude journal that you engage with every day. I say "engage with" because it is not a task to be done. It is a path to explore.
Of all of the topics that service professionals deal with, setting our initial rates and then deciding when and how to raise them is one of the most stress-inducing. There seems to be a general worry about talking about money with clients, especially on the part of massage therapists.
Burnout is an important topic in the massage industry—and in this career field where we take care of everyone else, it’s crucial that we do the same for ourselves. It’s time to stop burning the proverbial candle at both ends.
Many people associate cardiorespiratory exercise with weight loss and physical fitness and think that resistance training is not as vital for overall health and wellness; however, regular resistance training yields countless benefits.
Implementing the right client management procedures increases the Three Rs that practitioners yearn for––better client retention, quality referral…
When starting out in business, we look forward to the time when our massage schedule is full, when we do not have to spend so much of our time and energy finding clients or worrying about finding clients.
Self-care is good. Self-care is necessary. We hear about self-care here, there and everywhere—but what is self-care, really? Self-care is any activity we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional and physical health.