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How Does Vein Therapy Help Visible Veins?

Discover how vein therapy can help reduce the appearance of visible veins and improve your overall leg health.

Reduce Stress this April: Strategies for Stress Awareness Month

Reduce stress this April with strategies for Stress Awareness Month at Fancy’s Day Spa. Call 325.641.9106 or visit www.fancysdayspa.com.

Valentine’s Day Gifts: Creative and Relaxing Gift Ideas

Valentine’s Day is about showing someone how much you care – why not do it with something special that promotes relaxation and wellness? From massage therapy to chocolate-covered strawberries, many creative gifts are available that will bring joy while helping your loved one relax and unwind!

5 Tips for Managing Holiday Stress

It’s that time of year again. A time of celebration, family gatherings, holiday parties, gifting, traveling, and most of all, excitement. While many of us are thrilled and looking forward to the holiday season, that excitement is generally accompanied by STRESS. Stress to pick out the perfect dish, give the perfect gift, maintain a spotless house, show up to every party, and decorate our homes like Martha Stewart. So here’s a few tips to help you keep your holiday stress under control, so you can enjoy what the holidays are truly about.

Take Time for YOU During the Holidays

Every year around the holidays we’re reminded that it’s a time for us to put others before ourselves. But many of us tend to take that to an extreme and often put even our most basic needs, like exercise and sleep, to the side for the season. While it is important to always think of others’ needs as well as our own, we can’t forget that we aren’t able to fulfill anyone else’s needs if we ourselves are empty inside. It’s important to give and do these good deeds from a place of happiness. Doing for others and giving to others really does make you happy. However, if I have neglected my needs so much that I am running on empty, the place where I begin to give to others shifts from a place of happiness, to a place that may breed resentment. This doesn’t mean that those that I am giving to have done anything wrong; but rather that I can equate myself giving them something that I’m not giving to myself, almost as if I’m not worthy or my needs don’t matter.

Gift Basket Ideas That Won’t Break The Bank

Who doesn’t love giving or receiving a gift during the holidays? I live for the look on someone’s face when they receive a gift that I put a lot of thought into. It makes me feel happy when I know I’ve gotten it right. But what do you do when you need a gift for someone who already has everything, or you’re low on funds? Here are a few unique gift ideas to give to those you care about without breaking the bank.

Self-Care Tips to Survive the Holidays

The busiest time of year is upon us. Holidays are meant to be spent enjoying the company of family, dear friends, and our loved ones. However, somehow the holidays can sometimes become more stressful than any other time of year. We all have huge parts to play in the enjoyment of the holidays and if we aren’t taken care of we can’t do our parts. Here are a few self-care tips to help you survive the holidays.

Massage tips for lowering stress

Massages are known to be an effective treatment for stress relief.  Here are some ways people can maximize the benefits of regular massages.

CBD for Chronic Pain

CBD has been a hot topic lately. With claims that CBD can help with everything from anxiety to seizures it seems to be a natural alternative for many ailments. Many are turning to CBD for to help manage their chronic pain and to replace over the counter medicines and addictive prescription opioids. While there are still skeptics, CBD may very well be at least one answer to the opioid crisis many are facing. Here’s how… 

The Importance of Your Breath

We’ve all been breathing since the moment of our birth, but did you know that we’re often doing it wrong? While the way you typically breathe will keep you alive, it’s often not as efficient at keeping you at peak performance. That’s because we all leave it up to our unconscious brain to keep up this basic function without thought, which is fine for the most part. However, if you take the time to think through your breathing and practice new ways to breathe, you can often alter how your brain and body work.