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Posted on: August 12, 2013

Touch is an effective healing method that can soothe and console grieving clients. Learning how to help one grieving is an important part of your career as a massage therapist. Human touch not only relieves stress, it can also enhance your client's sense of general well-being and encourages healing.

Grieving clients may experience strong emotions during massage therapy sessions but will also benefit from sessions since massage has been shown to reduce stress. It is important to acknowledge their loss without using platitudes such as " time heals all wounds". Comforting your clients is best done using the skills you have learned as a massage therapist. Human touch can help ease loneliness and help clients feel connected to others at a time when they may feel loneliness and isolation. Your grieving clients may begin to open up after a few massage therapy sessions.

If your clients want to talk about their loss, listening is an important skill. Offering stress relief is an important aspect of grief massage. Clients may need to talk about things that friends and family aren't aware of. Listening can help clients release some of their grief while the massage relieves tension and encourages a feeling of
well-being. The power of human touch can help heal emotional pain and your skills as a massage therapist can help clients through grief.

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