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By Helen Chin Lui, Neighbor
Children Holistic Self Care Reflexology Program

Children Holistic Self Care Reflexology Program

Since 2006 the Healing Place LLC has seen numerous children for reflexology treatments for various health issues such as digestive, respiratory problems, and to focus. We are pleased to have helped many children to find relief from their physical and emotional discomforts using holistic healing practices of reflexology, energy medicine, reiki, and meditation.

Today’s Children are Mini Adults

Children today are mini-adults loaded with responsibilities that are just as enormous as adults’. Children under the constant pressure of juggling their time between family, home, school, friends, and activities are experiencing higher anxiety and stress than the previous generation. More children are developing mental health problems such as depression and self-esteem issues have become an epidemic.

Antidepressant use in the U.S. soars by 65 percent in 15 years

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The number of Americans who say they’ve taken an antidepressant over the past month rose by 65 percent between 1999 and 2014, a new government survey finds. By 2014, about one in every eight Americans over the age of 12 reported recent antidepressant use, according to a report released Tuesday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Women are nearly twice as likely as men to be taking the medications, the report found, with antidepressants used by 16.5 percent of females compared to just under 9 percent of males.

Make Today a Healthier Day

Today’s adults are more overwhelmed and stressed than ever before. Both parents have to work to make ends plus parenting children and caring for aging parents. As difficult as it is, we must make time to slow down and care for ourselves and teach our children the same. Any conscious changes you make will support you and your children’s physical, emotional health while feeding your and their spirit.

Which Self-Care Practice Can I Do Today?

  1. Stop overscheduling
  2. Stop making life a competition
  3. Manage stress and anxiety with healthy activities
  4. Make quiet time for yourself
  5. Listen to your body and then follow through
  6. Eat whole food diet
  7. Stop living from your chair and move your body
  8. Make rest and sleep a priority

Release Nervous Stomach with Hand Reflexology

Teach yourself and your children how to do hand reflexology to release nervousness or butterflies. Most children will respond to reflexology quicker than adults because children have fewer health issues than adults.

Try this Hand Reflexology tip daily until you feel your stress melting away. What is best about this tip that it can be done anywhere and anything. Children will learn this method in seconds.

The writer: Helen Chin Lui is a Certified Reflexologist, Certified Energy Medicine Practitioner, Reiki Master and Teacher. She is the owner of the Healing Place LLC (healingplacemedfield.com) Healing Place Energy School LLC (HealingPlaceEnergySchool.com) in Medfield, MA

Consultation: If you would like to learn how to Reflexology can support your health, please contact the Healing Place by email at or give them a call at 508.359.6463.

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