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Autumn is a time to nourish your body with warm and grounding practices, get introspective and celebrate joy, clarity, and creativity. We enter a season of sharing and giving while counting our blessings of health and community.

Here are a few tips for staying grounded and focused to balance out the change happening around us during this season.

• Begin your day with meditation. Deepening the awareness of your breath and checking into your internal nature will help you know what your body, mind and soul are in need of.
• Incorporate a new grooming practice such as netti pot, dry brushing or oil pulling. These are natural ways to boost your immune system during cold and flu season.
• Treat yourself. As the holidays approach, plan for healthy treats and have plenty around to share. Stock up on nuts and dried fruit and make soup for your friends.
• Enjoy a yoga class each week and regular, relaxing and peaceful walks in Nature to calm the mobile body and active mind. Other great activities include gardening, creating art and music and journaling. Be sure to follow all activities with a sufficient rest period.

The Spa at Creekside is preparing for the season by creating the perfect holistic wellness treatments for you, our clients. During the Fall season, it’s beneficial to balance out the cooling and airy seasonal changes with warming and nourishing remedies and practices. Austin just endured the hottest summer yet and as your practitioners and therapists, we look forward to ushering in the cooler temperatures by supporting our clients with services to meet your changing needs.

• Rochelle Poulson, LMT balances out the treatment and TLC for a personalized and unforgettable massage experience.
• Jeanne Hicks provides acupuncture and facials. Jeanne’s healing hands will help you look and feel your best this holiday season!
• Reagan Bryant provides fantastic skin care and guides you to selecting the perfect products to extend your treatments at home.
• For sale are gift certificates, herbal remedies, facial products and gift baskets.
• Let us help you in your life’s celebrations with spa parties, couples massage, wedding wellness packages and pregnancy massage.

Come cozy up with us this season… we look forward to working with you!

In my post cancer life, I have been working on recognizing my fears and learning to face them and even move past them.  Many of my fears are based on the “unknown” or have been created by stories I’ve told myself. One of my facebook friends defined fear as feedback. I love that we can use fear as a mechanism for questioning reality, ourselves and our beliefs and make adjustments according to the honest answers we find within. It’s just another emotion that we can choose our reaction to. I look back at what I have been through in my life and realize that I have overcome most of my “fear” by reactions and making the choices when it comes up. Fear can guide us somewhere amazing and make us stronger if recognized for what it really is. I know when I don’t run from it, I learn from it. We don’t really know what we are capable of until it happens to us… or make the choice to happen to it.

Back in 2008 I learned of an adventurer named Roz Savage. Her bravery and grace inspire me to be a stronger person. I listened to her blogs as she rowed her way across the pacific ocean. Each leg of her row was in sync with these big challenges I was facing in my own life. One of which was my cancer treatment. I remember thinking that rowing an ocean is much scarier than what I was going through.  I continue to learn from Roz many things… but the most important is that just because our course in life changes, our goals and missions don’t have to. This woman does what she sets out to do and does it one oar stroke at a time. Which I truly believe is a great way to conquer fear and come into alignment with our truest self!

Once again, we have gathered footage that didn’t make it into the movie Cancerpants.  Nevie Owens put together this great video of a trip to Dallas last year to meet ROZ SAVAGE in person. It shows how awesome Roz is and by the look on my face how much she inspires me. We had a great time and I hope to bring her to Austin someday so she can share her unique spirit with our community. Her environmental message is powerful and her experience is rich!

Getting diagnosed with cancer and going through treatment gave me plenty of fear conquering opportunities. Fear can’t scare me! My goal is to use it as a tool when facing challenges in my life. Cause like I have said before, “this isn’t the hardest thing I will ever do”.

To learn more about the amazing ROZ SAVAGE please visit her website and read her book.

This week BUY WITH ME ran a DEAL for The Spa at Creekside. We are excited to meet you and look forward to working with you. The deal is for a custom massage with Aromatherapy and hot towels. Get ready to sink into deep relaxation while Rochelle Poulson, RMT takes care you from start to finnish.

To book your appointment click the SCHEDULE NOW button on this page. Please make sure to leave a note  that you have a BUY WITH ME voucher.

Thank you for your business and see you soon!

I have a new monthly blog and it will include interview with inspirational people in my life, ways I am staying healthy and happy and many more goodies!

Please check it out here: NAVIGATION LIFE

 Me and my beautiful Mom getting to Galveston to board ship!

Roatan, Honduras from our stateroom!

It has been a while since I have updated my blog. I took a little break as I found my ‘new normal’ and settled back into practice. I would sit down to write and not really know what to say at times. Cancer was a roller coaster and I could not have beat it (yes, I am cancer free) without your love and support. It is a new and healthier year for us all and  I look forward to seeing your shining happy faces as our paths cross and we move through our journeys. 

I just returned from a wonderful “study aboard” trip. I took a medical massage training course on a cruise ship through LMT Success Group. I also took my wonderful mom with me. It was a blast being with her and spending quality uninterrupted time talking and getting to connect while having fun, relaxing and seeing the sights in three different ports. I went to 2 new countries I have never been and learned a lot.

the heron sits very still at waters silent edge
one sturdy leg makes no ripple
submerged
waiting is a chore for others
fish swim by
all is provided
the sun rises and sets with the tides of a patient heart

It’s 12:01 while I am writing this.  It is my one year cancerversary.  My body still works (minus a few hormonal issues)… my mind is as clear and focused as it has ever been… my heart is open… my spirit is strong and brave and I am surrounded by loving, talented beautiful friends and family.

Things are going well.  There have been a few bumps in the road adjusting to “normal” life again.  Since I finished treatment, I have felt a some depression and a little fatigue from time to time.  I realize I have been on auto pilot to get through some of the tougher moments… and now I have time to process it all. To sit back and look at what has happened and also to look forward and contemplate what is to come.

At times, I get worried about getting cancer again. I plan out in my head and also in conversations how I would handle it and what kind of treatment I would have… blah blah blah. But really, there is no planning for things like cancer. It happens. You do the best you can and hopefully you keep on living for as long as you can. So, after the natural worries and wonderings… I take a deeeep breath and return to a positive vibration. I have learned that  faith and a positive attitude are the foundation to my health and sanity.

I was able to spend some time with an amazing woman, Roz Savage. I met her via her blog 3 years ago. Roz is an ocean rower and an eco warrior… raising awareness with a message and campaign for every row she does. I noticed how positive she was and easy going. Her authenticity was so refreshing.

Being around her reminded me that so many things are possible. Even when you don’t have a serious illness, like cancer… it is still important to choose LIFE. To make each day what I want it to be by following my heart.

So, what is next? Well,  I made a promise that I would use my experience with breast cancer to help others, so I am working on helping my friend Nevie, an amazing film maker promote the soon to be completed documentary, CANCERPANTS.  This movie when complete will be a tool to help educate other cancer patients about the experience of cancer treatment and tell the story of how my amazing friends and family rallied together to help me move through this experience. I am hoping that it will be a way to help raise money for organizations helping cancer patients and also raise awareness of this prevalent disease.

I am back to work full time massaging and dreaming up new ways to be apart of the healing community. Having to cut back on my work was a confirmation to me that I am truly in the right line of work… even though it doesn’t feel like work. All I wanted some days was to be strong enough to take clients. It feels good to be back and staying in touch with my clients. They bring me so much joy.

As far as treatment for cancer goes, I am only taking tamoxifen now.  I am getting some Lymphatic massage to treat some minor lymphedema  but otherwise I am healthy and well.

Thank you to everyone backing Cancerpants on Kickstarter!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1559662955/cancerpants-at-the-crossroads-of-life-and-breast-c

Please consider pre-ordering your copy of the documentary by going to kickstarter and backing with 20.00 THANK YOU!

My goal is to blog more often… so chat with all you roboobians soon. xo

RO