Rose Quartz Wellness Spa

📣📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣📣

I moved out of Florida to Tennessee! I’m keeping my FL massage therapist license, and I’m licensed in TN as well. I’m currently working for a physical therapy office in Gallatin, TN outside of Nashville, and I hope to have my own place in the future! Follow me to stay updated on what’s happening with me and Rose Quartz Wellness Spa!

📣📣BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣📣

We are growing SO FAST! As one of Gainesville's fastest growing massage businesses, we are thrilled to be expanding our team!

Rose Quartz Wellness Spa is joining forces and merging with Five Branch Massage & Wellness!

Effective October 1st, Kay Russell will be part of the Five Branch Massage & Wellness family, and will continue to see her established clients as well as new clients.

Current clients of Rose Quartz Wellness Spa with a membership will have their membership paused and given time to redeem any remaining services they have banked. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out!

📣📣BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣📣

Rose Quartz Wellness Spa is joining forces and merging with Five Branch Massage & Wellness!

Effective October 1st, Kay will be part of the Five Branch Massage & Wellness family, and will continue to see her established clients as well as new clients in Five Branch’s second location inside A Center for Therapeutic Massage, located at

5021-C NW 34th Blvd
Gainesville, FL 32605

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Current clients of Rose Quartz Wellness Spa with a membership will have their membership paused and given time to redeem any remaining services they have banked. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out!

Thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed my open house event last night, and a huge thank you to all the sponsors that made this event possible! We had a great turnout and gave away some great prizes!

And if you’re sore after too much excitement, remember to schedule a massage!

There are a lot of self proclaimed “healers” out there. They claim to heal your physical, spiritual, and emotional wounds. But I don’t believe the work I do directly heals my clients, and the scientific research behind massage therapy is on my side. Can I affect change? Yes and no; not directly. What I do sends signals to the client’s brain that say, “It’s ok to heal. It’s safe to begin healing. This place needs more attention.” The client’s body does the actual healing. I just nudge it along.

Do you agree? Do you disagree? Let’s talk about it in the comments.

Whenever someone schedules with me, I always make sure to clarify 60 or 90 minutes, and sometimes I’m asked what I think they need.

The short answer is it depends. I can usually provide a recommendation based on what each client tells me they’re dealing with, but if you’d like to know a little more about how long of a massage you should schedule, head over to the blog on our website and read our latest blog post about this exact question. Link to our website is in our bio!

Happy National Relaxation Day! Take some time today to pause and relax. Some ideas to accomplish this:

🧘🏻‍♀️Do some yoga
🧘🏼‍♀️Meditate
🧘🏽‍♀️Read a book
🧘🏾‍♀️Take a nap
🧘🏿‍♀️Get a massage!

Everyone deserves relaxation. Make sure you allow yourself to relax once in a while.

When I was 21 years old, I threw out my back helping a roommate clean his toilet. All the doctor could do for me was give me muscle relaxers, which could also lead to re-injury by inadvertently using the aggravated muscle(s) too much, causing them to go back into spasm.

Instead, I went to a massage therapist who not only worked out the tension in my back through massage but also gave me exercises and stretches to help strengthen my back and guard against re-injury.

Since then I have held the belief that a mechanical solution to a mechanical problem is often superior to a chemical solution to a mechanical problem.

That experience has contributed to my overall preference for holistic healthcare and why I decided to become a massage therapist. So if you have experienced muscle spasms, pain, or tension, I encourage you to try massage as a more holistic solution beyond muscle relaxers and pain medications.

To be clear, I’m not advocating against pain medications and muscle relaxers when there is a need. But both of those are bandaids on the problem and not actual solutions. And while massage may not be a one shot solution, it can do wonders to help the body through its own healing process.

Thank you to everyone who voted! Although I didn’t win, I made it to the top 3, and that’s pretty cool! Proud to be a finalist for Our Town Faves Gainesville 2023!

This definition comes from an article through ABMP on deep tissue massage. In school, we defined it roughly as a 7 on a 1-10 pain scale where 1 represents, “are you even touching me?” and 10 represents the client jumping off the table because they can’t stand the pain. A 7, we said, is where you’re definitely feeling the pressure, and it’s uncomfortable, even painful to a point, but you can stand the discomfort. In this zone, the pain/discomfort begins to subside, lessen, and/or become more bearable after about 30 seconds of static pressure.

Feel free to check out the blog post on our website about the therapeutic edge for more info!

Can you believe it? Rose Quartz Wellness Spa has been open for almost a year! We’re in a new space, offering memberships and retail, and on our way! There’s a lot to celebrate, and we also just want to show off the new digs, so come out on Thursday, August 24th, for a little open house.

We’ll have door prizes and refreshments, so come on out and enjoy!

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We have openings for new clients! If you are interested in making self care a priority through regular massages, we offer memberships. If you’d like to try us out, feel free to use the code “NC2320” when you book your first appointment to receive $20 off your first 60+ minute massage with us.

Happy International Self Care Day! We end International Self Care Month with the 24th of July because of the date’s significant number pattern everywhere except the US: 24/7. Because we should be taking care of ourselves 24/7!

If you haven’t already in the last month, take some time today and create a self care routine that works FOR YOU. No excuses. Do it.

For the last few weeks we’ve been talking about self care: what it looks like, how to do it, ideas, etc. So many people struggle with self care and the main excuse is time. So what have we learned?

1. Schedule self care.
2. Stay hydrated.
3. Eat (healthy) food.
4. Take a bath.
5. Spend time outside.
6. Have a creative hobby.

I’ve seen this meme over and over again, and I love it because it really is that simple. You’re basically just a houseplant with more complicated emotions. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others at your best.

Here’s another graphic with 4 simple ways to practice self care.

You might have noticed that my posts this month keep saying some of the same things. Here’s my takeaway:
Self-care is like gardening, but you’re the plant. Make sure you’re fed, watered, have enough sunlight, and meet your creative needs. It seems so simple that we put it off for “more important” things, but self care is important even if it’s simple. This is how you thrive. If you don’t have time for self care, you’re doing too much and you need to reevaluate your priorities.

This week, Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP) celebrates its “Massage is for every BODY” week, and we’re celebrating, too!

If you have a body, then massage is for you. If you are self conscious about your body, massage may seem scary or uncomfortable. But building a relationship of trust with your massage therapist, facing that fear and discomfort, and allowing yourself to experience positive touch in the form of massage can do wonders for your body image, especially if you struggle with body dysmorphia or related body image issues.

Sometimes self care is having to learn to self soothe when things get tough. Here are 6 things you can do to begin to self-soothe when you start to feel burnt out, overwhelmed, or overstimulated.

Wondering what else you can do to take care of yourself and build a wellness routine? Here’s 4 things you can do to work towards building a wellness routine.

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Some of us have a hard time prioritizing self care because we are always serving others (*cough, cough* moms *cough*). If you have a hard time prioritizing self care, then schedule it in. Literally. I’m not kidding.

Build self care into your morning routine. Build self care into your nighttime routine. If you have PTO, stop saving it for a rainy day and TAKE IT. Create personal goals around self care and where you want to be and how you want to feel.

“But I can’t schedule in self care because my schedule is already too full,” you say. If your schedule is too full to schedule in a little self care, you need help. Stop trying to do everything by yourself and ask for help. You are not less for asking for help. Everybody needs help. Do it!

(Btw, massage is a great option for self care!) 😉😅

A lot of us that struggle with self care tend to be over-thinkers, so here are 5 steps you can take to clear your mind. You don’t need to do all of them every time but as many as you can wherever you need to.

And for my fellow neurodivergents, if trying to get yourself organized just gets the anxiety gremlins moving and starting trouble, try to find something that DOES quiet that mind!

During this International Self Care Month from June 24 to July 24, I’m throwing down the gauntlet. I challenge you to take care of yourself—REALLY take care of yourself—for the next 24 days (and beyond)! Here’s 12 ideas for you to get started. If you want to hold yourself accountable, I invite you to comment on this post and update us every day you do something for yourself.

New Client Promotion - up to $15 off Jun 28, 2023 - 3:00 PM ~ - As a new client, we would like to extend $15 off your first 60-min+ service with us to give us a try!

Practicing mindfulness is a great way to improve your mind-body connection, reduce stress & anxiety, and practice self care. Here are 7 mindfulness exercises to try.

Yes! 💕Jayson Gaddis
Many people think that secure attachment, or secure relationships, are built through finding the right person that doesn’t trigger you.
This erroneous belief keeps people stuck in fantasies about relationships that go nowhere and lead to heartbreak.

The truth is, security is built through constant mis-reads, disconnections, mismatches, and followed up with repair and reconnection.
In other words, through what I call the “conflict-repair cycle.”

Secure relationships are built by repairing and reconnecting after two people disagree, distance, fight, argue, or mis-read each other.
Always return and repair together, and security is in fact, your reward.
.. Same for the parent-child relationship 💕

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Today marks the beginning of International Self Care Month, which runs from June 24 to July 24th. July 24th, or 7/24 (24/7 outside the US) is International Self Care Day. This month I want to post at least once a week about self care, whether that’s habits, ideas, quotes, or anything else that might help you.

If you have a request for something self care related that I can cover in the next 4-ish weeks, please comment on this post and I’ll try to accommodate the request!