The Woodhouse Day Spa

Scheduling a day at the spa is one of those things that never stops feeling like a luxury.
For many of us, massage is a go-to experience – but why? You may know that you feel renewed afterward, but what is it that keeps us coming back for more?

— Relaxation

As the holidays approach, we all get busy and sometimes forget to take time for ourselves. Obviously it’s important to schedule some ‘me’ time for relaxing, but it’s also important to maintain the healthy lifestyle you’ve been working towards all year. Think about it, if you give up on your health and wellness just two months out of the year that’s more than 16% of your life spent living unhealthy. In short, don’t give up and tell yourself that you’ll hit the ‘reset button” in January.

When you are stressed, you can feel it, and others can see it. But does stress really have a noticeable effect on your appearance overtime? It's known fact that chronic stress has a detrimental effect on the immune system, and can open the door to mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. But does being under a copious amount of stress have a noticeable effect on your appearance? Recent studies have proven the answer to this to be yes.

Its no secret that when you are feeling stressed, it has a detrimental effect on your mind, but unresolved stress can also lead to problems with your body. As humans, we are designed to encounter stressful situations, and use the hormones released during this process to help us out of the situation. As humans have evolved though, so have our problems. Now on a day to day basis people are stressed by work, money, children, family and more. Finding time to unwind can have a serious health benefit to those suffering from chronic stress.