What is Grief Massage?

A place to receive the art of healing nurturing touch to gentle relaxation massage. A place to be and be supported. 
  • Grief massage provides a unique and peaceful massage for people in their early days, weeks, and months of grieving.
  •  This type of massage can be a powerful component of self-care in meeting you right where you are during the stressful and sensitive time in your grief journey. 
  • A safe nurturing space with no intention of fixing your grief. A peaceful place they provide safe pockets of quiet calmness. 

Why Grief Massage?

The focus is on physical triggers of grief. A loss can trigger increased stress responses that can include:
  • Increase stress/anxiety
  • Muscle aches and pains 
  • Depression 
  • Sleeping difficulties 
  • Headache/migraine's 
  • Compromised immune system​
"Be still, and know that I am God. "Psalm 46; 1

What to expect.

  • Safe and nurturing space fully clothed or undressed to your comfort level.
  • The gentle relaxation grief massage can focus on these areas and can also be tailored to your needs.
    • Scalp and face 
    • Neck and back
    • Arms and hands 
    • Calves and feet
  • A nurturing touch massage may prompt years and expressions of sadness. This is a normal response, extra time is given as we make the space to move through it.
  • I add an extra 30 minutes of time for you so the process is not rushed and there is no charge for the extra time for booking a grief massage session. 
  • I offer an option for music for your session that is called Soaking Music. Soaking music is instrumental music that helps people connect with Gods presence in themselves. 

A Note From Pam - My Story of Grief 

​The impact of Therapeutic Massage has been life changing. It’s the reason I am a Licensed Massage Therapist today. My passion is to share healing touch and come along side people in their healing journeys. 
 
After the death of my husband in 2007, my health began to suffer. I was creating an environment of self-induced anxiety. I sought out massage in my journey from grief back to wholeness. In the desire to seek out peaceful places, finding connection with massage was important to me. 
I would be hurting upon entering the massage session with deep sadness, feeling fearful, lonely and disconnected from my entire being. I began to feel the touch as a peaceful energy and began to renew with deep relaxation, reconnection that would envelope me. The massage would end, I would walk out into the reality of my grief. The space where I was feeling inner peace would close back up again. I would re-schedule and each massage the opening up of my spirit got wider to receive. I was beginning to feel that massage was having an big impact in helping me process my grief and continues to be an integral part in my wellness journey. In my commitment to heal I began to feel the Hope that I was hanging onto was fully realizing itself.

Here I am today, what makes me unique in offering grief massage in my practice is to share what I have been gifted to do through, the gift of giving healing touch massage.
I was blessed to be able to study with Aimee Joy Taylor,
founder of The Insitute for Grief Massage in North Carolina
​and to offer this special and safe massage to grieving clients.
The Joy of Grief Massage℠ with Aimee Joy Taylor of The Institute for Grief Massage Inc