Suffering from Burnout? Here's How Massage Therapy Can Help

Are you suffering from Burnout in Jacksonville, Florida? Add Massage Therapy to Your Burnout Recovery Plan

Burnout occurs when work or other stress builds up to the breaking point. People who work long hours or endure a toxic work environment are at the greatest risk of burnout, but even low-level stress can build up into a big problem over time. People who are caregiving for family or loved ones are also at high risk for burnout.

Some signs that you are experiencing burnout include constant fatigue, headaches, muscle tension, disengagement, insomnia, changes in appetite and feelings of hopelessness. You may begin to dread doing your daily duties and find even small tasks feel overwhelming to you.

Making positive changes in your work and home life is the best way to help reverse the mental, emotional, and physical effects of burnout. When you want to refill your energy and renew your enthusiasm for work you once enjoyed, massage is a wonderful treatment to help you feel renewed in body, mind and spirit and keep you from putting in your resignation letter.


How Massage Can Relieve Burnout and Help You Recover

If you have been suffering from burnout, massage can play a key role in your recovery plan. Just one massage can help you refresh your body and spirit so that you are able to face your workplace challenges feeling refreshed, energized, and unburdened by the heavy weight of physical stress held in your body. Let us spotlight how massage can help you relieve burnout to aid in your recovery.

Release Stress Held In Your Body

Burnout is the result of accumulated stress, stress that is held in your body and your mind at the same time. All that tension has become muscle knots, tension headaches, andy physically held anxiety. Because the tension never leaves your body, it feels like the stress never goes away.

Massage helps your body let go of that stress through gentle manipulation. A massage therapist will help your muscles release those knots as the stress flows out of your body from the center of your spine to the tips of your fingers and toes.

Allow Yourself to Truly Relax On the Weekends

One of the symptoms of burnout is the inability to relax in your off time. Treating yourself to a massage breaks that pattern of weekend stress by allowing you to truly let go with a sigh of relief. The massage is not just a change in routine. It's the touch of luxury, pampering, and special treatment you need to feel like your weekend is truly separate from your work. You can fully relax to soft music, aromatherapy, and gentle touch removing the stress from your muscles.

Relieve Tension-Related Aches and Pains

If your burnout is getting worse due to tension-related aches and pains, massage can solve that, too. Allow those aching shoulders and tension headaches to flow away as each muscle is expertly relaxed. Knots will be unwound, tightly pulled strings will be gently eased, and the aches associated with tension in your body can disappear.

Finally, Get a Good Night's Sleep

Poor sleep is often a symptom and cause of burnout. Fortunately, deep and rejuvenating sleep is one of the best side-effects of a good massage. In fact, it's not uncommon to have your first really satisfying nap during the massage itself, and you can finally get a fully relaxed night's sleep once your body tension is gone that very night.

Reinvigorate Your Energy to Face New Challenges

Lastly, a massage allows you to renew your personal energy. You will be better positioned physically and mentally to overcome challenges and make the changes at work that you need to thrive again.


Massage Treatment Styles Recommended for Burnout

Which types of massage are best to help you treat burnout? Every person is unique, but our massage therapists often recommend three methods of massage that are particularly good at helping you release burnout-related stress throughout your body.

Swedish Massage

Swedish massage uses long strokes designed to help improve the flow of blood and lymph through your body. This improves circulation and helps your body carry pain-causing toxins like lactic acid from your muscles. Swedish massage relieves muscle tension and can provide you greater energy by oxygenating the body. Book the Classic Massage at our center in Jacksonville, Florida to experience Swedish massage therapy in your treatment.

Deep Tissue Massage

Deep tissue massage seeks stress where it hides in your deep muscle tissue. This massage uses strength and precision to relax your muscles directly, seeking out knots and tight places to release tension no matter how deeply it is hidden. Those who like a "hard" massage often prefer the deep stress-relieving benefits of deep tissue therapy.


Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger point massage seeks to relieve tender knots known as trigger points that often trigger pain in your body tissue. Trigger point massage focuses on specific areas where the body carriers painful tension including your jaw, neck, hips, lower back, upper shoulders, and the sides of your head. It is particularly useful for those experiencing stress-related pain. Book the Advanced Massage at our center in Jacksonville, Florida to experience trigger point therapy in your treatment.


​Reiki Energy Healing

Reiki healing is an energy healing method from Japan. Practitioners use their hands and their intention to channel universal healing energy to the client. Reiki can address mental, physical, spiritual and emotional healing. People receiving reiki report feeling refreshed, with more energy and mental clarity.

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Additional Strategies to Heal Burnout

While massage therapy is an excellent tool in your burnout recovery kit, there are many other strategies you'll need to implement in order to achieve a truly comprehensive approach to healing. 

Here are a few additional hints and tips to recover from burnout:

• Set Boundaries and Say No When Necessary: While you still want to be an excellent employee or caregiver, make sure to communicate when you need a break. Find relief from your duties and let someone else handle it for a day!

 

• Seek Social and Professional Support: It can help to talk about your burnout with a friend, a trusted family member and/or a professional counselor.

 

• Prioritize Self-Care: While massage therapy is a great self-care tool, make sure to get back to basics like prioritizing sleep, healthy eating and movement.

What Can You Expect from Regular Massage for Burnout Recovery

Treating burnout requires a truly holistic approach to stress relief and life change. Massage can play an important part in helping you pull yourself out of a state of burnout before further damage occurs to your mental and physical health. 

Regular massage can give you a weekend event to look forward to, ensuring that there is always one point of true relaxation each week. Massage will help you release tension held in your body and prevent new tension from building up so that physical symptoms of burnout get better instead of worse over time.

You can use the motivation from your regular massage to help inspire changes in other parts of your life to help reduce stress and build a more positive routine at work and at home.

Build Your Burnout Recovery Plan in Jacksonville, Florida with Massage Therapy

Burnout recovery involves a combination of self-care and life changes. Let our massage therapy services become a cornerstone of your weekly or monthly self-care routine. Through massage, you can remove stress from your body, improving your energy and sleep quality so you have the resources to make the other healthy changes that your life needs to recover from a state of burnout. Contact our massage therapy experts in Jacksonville, Florida to start your wellness journey and heal from burnout.

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