The OFFICIAL Liposuction BBL Round One and Done recipe for success

 The OFFICIAL Round One and Done recipe for success.

Hello, my name is Kathleen Lisson. I help people after plastic surgery operations including iposuction, lipo 360, body sculpting, tummy tuck, mommy makeover and brazilian butt lift to reduce swelling and fibrosis with lymphatic massage and fibrosis massage.

The vast majority of my clients are NOT going to have a round two. The have ONE chance to make the most of their Lipo 360 and BBL.

Here is the advice I give them.

Step 1 - Prepare your body for surgery

Exercises: https://youtu.be/aDRoncQw6Rc

Nutrition: https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/p/southern-california-plastic-surgery-cookbook-the-class/ OR https://amzn.to/3kUnqpo

What to eat before BBL - https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/blog/214550/bbl-diet

What to buy to help with recovery: https://kit.co/KathleenLisson/liposuction-plastic-surgery-recovery-box

Reduce Stress: guided meditations that will help you reduce stress and anxiety before and after plastic surgery.

https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/p/guided-meditations

Step 2 - Recover ASAP after surgery (reducing swelling faster will help with loose skin):

Lymphatic massages from an experienced professional.

Make sure your compression garment isn't bunching or giving you faja burn.

Nutrition: https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/p/southern-california-plastic-surgery-cookbook-the-class/ OR https://amzn.to/3kUnqpo

Feed the Fat if you had a BBL https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/blog/214758/bbldiet

All the advice your surgeon didn't have time to tell you are in the Plastic Surgery Recovery Handbook. Available in paperback and kindle https://amzn.to/3fGl5vf

Make sure your compression garment fits correctly and use foam https://youtu.be/h4HR5_OlPe0

Self-massage in between lymphatic massages: https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/p/self-massage-for-fibrosis-after-liposuction

Reduce fibrosis: https://youtu.be/evLRJ9hPeKE AND https://kit.co/KathleenLisson/fibrosis-recovery-box

How to workout safely after plastic surgery to make your waist look smaller and butt look bigger WITHOUT losing fat https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/p/six-minute-faja-workout

Packing for Plastic Surgery Overseas

If you miss it, here are two resources:

My choices for your plastic surgery recovery shopping list - help after liposuction, brazilian butt lift, tummy tuck and facelift. Help reducing swelling and fibrosis!
https://kit.co/KathleenLisson

Free online class I share with my lymphatic massage clients with a prinatble shopping list:
https://plasticsurgeryrecoverymassage.teachable.com/p/plastic-surgery-recovery-shopping-list

Lymphatic Massage Testimonial Tuesday - Facelift in San Diego

Lymphatic Massage San Diego Testimonial Tuesday

I love getting testimonials from my clients, and Judy wanted to share so much with you she filled in the entire first side and had to turn the page over to the back!

“A week after my facelift, I got a hematoma and had significant swelling and stiffness -
very uncomfortable - while the surgeon said it would resolve - the day to day unpleasant /
uncomfortableness caused me to seek relief.

After the first massage - I had better range of motion and physically and mentally felt like I’d
reached a turning point. The following week I saw good improvements, where previously it
seemed like my body was just going to stay swollen and puffy for a long time.

I finally started to feel like myself again.

The massage was relaxing, for sure, but unlike sports massage that I’d had. I was skeptical about the drainage when I left, but that night my body definitely was processing fluid as I was up every few hours to pee. So, skepticism unfounded - and relief realized.”

Judy from San Diego, after a facelift in San Diego in 2018

If you would like to book a lymphatic massage to reduce swelling after a
plastic surgery facelift in San Diego, find Kathleen Lisson at SolaceSanDiego.com

Testimonial Tuesday - recovering from liposuction and facelift in San Diego.

Post - Plastic Surgery Testimonial Tuesday

by Kathleen Lisson

I received the following testimonial from a lovely lady who was experiencing swelling and a lot of pain after a liposuction and facelift.

"Kathleen is a true healer in every way! She helped me tremendously with me therapy post surgery. She is very knowledgeable and thorough in every way along with being very kind and friendly to work with. I highly recommend her!"

Maggie from San Diego, recovering from liposuction on arms and legs and a face and neck lift.

If you would like to find out more information and book an appointment, visit SolaceSanDiego.com

Testimonial Tuesday - Gender Affirming Surgery in San Diego

Testimonial Tuesday - 

Increase ROM with Scar Massage after Mastectomy

by Kathleen Lisson, CLT

I specialize in lymphatic massage after plastic surgery, but I can also help with other types of massage, including scar massage, as well. I was excited to help my client AK to improve his range of motion and reduce his pain after his bilateral mastectomy. I saw him several months after his surgery and he saw improvement after the first visit! 

“Kathleen has helped me tremendously in relieving my chronic shoulder post-surgery pain. She also helped to ease the pain from my surgery scars which has greatly increased my range of motion and overall comfort level throughout the day. She is amazing in her healing art and I would highly recommend her to anyone!”

AK - recovering from bilateral mastectomy as part of gender affirming surgery

How to Reduce Anxiety before Surgery in San Diego, Del Mar, La Jolla

How to Reduce Anxiety before Surgery 

in San Diego, Del Mar, La Jolla 

by Kathleen Lisson, CMT, CLT

Are you anxious about an upcoming surgery?
Are you concerned about using pain medication after surgery?

There is a way to reduce your anxiety and your need for pain medication after your operation in San Diego, Del Mar or La Jolla. Earlier this year, I spent an amazing weekend learning from psychotherapist, researcher and Harvard Divinity School graduate Peggy Huddleston about how to share the proven techniques from her book Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster. 

Research conducted at Tufts University Medical Clinic, New England Baptist Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (A Harvard Medical School teaching hospital) shows that men and women following the protocol described in Huddleston's book had:

• Less anxiety before surgery
• Used less pain medication after surgery
• Less irritability, insomnia, nightmares and loss of appetite after surgery

The entire protocol is explained in her book Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster and she offers a relaxation CD that makes the process very simple.

If you would like a more hands-on approach, I offer one hour group workshops free of charge at locations throughout San Diego, including:

Adams Avenue Integrative Health

If you would like to book a one-on-one private workshop, I can come to your home and guide you, step by step, through the process. This is an ideal choice if you need to be discreet about your upcoming surgery or would like to gather with several of your supporters and learn about the relaxation process as a group! The fee for the one hour private session in the comfort of your home is $125, and is part of my Back to Health Program for Plastic or Orthopedic Surgery Clients. Email for more information at solacesandiego@gmail.com


News coverage about the Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster program:

How to heal from Orthopedic Surgery:

How to heal from Cardiac Surgery

The book is available on Amazon and the CD can be downloaded onto Kindle and mp3 players. More information is here: http://healfaster.com/shop/

Best Tips and a Shopping List for Recovering after Surgery in San Diego

Best Tips and a Shopping List for Recovering after Surgery in San Diego

by Kathleen Lisson

I gave a short presentation at the San Diego Library’s How-To Festival 2017. 

 I introduced myself and shared that I am a surgery veteran, with ‘emergency’ surgery at 18, dental surgery in my early thirties, complicated reconstructive surgery at 37 and Moh’s cancer surgery at 42 with only local anesthetic under my belt. 

The Visualization Part

I shared a little about what Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with Relaxation and Quick Start CD: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques is about, including the questions: 

• How do you want to feel in your hospital room? 
• How do you want to feel when you are recovering well? 
• How do you want to feel when you are fully recovered? 

We can separate pre-surgery worries into two types - is it a concern your doctor can answer or is it a fear? If it is a fear, Huddleston advises to turn your attention to your fully recovered end result for 30 seconds to a minute. 

Huddleston’s book focuses on how to use relationships to improve healing, relationships with loved ones, friends, and your doctor and anesthesiologist. 

Your Shopping List

I also shared some tips on what to have in the house or hotel to help you recover from surgery. My list for post-surgery bag (if you’re staying in a hotel) includes what you would normally pack, plus: 

Your favorite Lavender essential oil, rose essential oil, orange/lemon essential oil, geranium essential oil or frankincense essential oil and a diffuser like the URPOWER 500ml Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser Humidifier with 4 Timer Settings, 7 LED Color Changing Lamps and Waterless Auto Shut-off

Laxative like Senna Plus Natural Vegetable Laxative with Stool Softener - 100 Tablets

Maxi pads 

Pee pads like the AmazonBasics Pet Training and Puppy Pads, Regular - 50-Count

Baby wipes 

Slip on shoes (I brought my slippers to show)

Foot stool like the Folding Step Stool - 11" Wide - The Lightweight Step Stool is Sturdy Enough to Support Adults and Safe Enough for Kids. Opens Easy with One Flip. Great for Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom, Kids or Adults.

First aid kit and bandages like the ones your surgeon will use.

Large hand mirror like the Goody Hand Mirror 27847 (Pack of 1), 11 Inch

Plastic mattress cover like Vinyl Mattress Cover Protector (Queen)

A great tip - you can use your ironing board as an extra table when you can’t bend down!

I also reminded everyone to make sure their refrigerator is stocked with easy to prepare, easy to eat foods. 

I shared that a recent tummy tuck client introduced me to Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service. 

I shared my horror story after my facial reconstructive surgery and showed everyone a great resource, Dr. Buford’s Plastic Surgery nutrition book Eat, Drink, Heal: The Art and Science of Surgical Nutrition

Feeling Anxious Before Surgery? Learn from my mistakes!

How to Reduce Anxiety Before Surgery in San Diego

By Kathleen Lisson, CMT, CLT

(CAMTC #70128)

Anxiety Before Surgery

"Basal Cell Carcinoma" 

Those three words spoken by my dermatologist as she shined a bright light and peered at my right cheek felt like loose sand being stolen from under my feet by an undertow. 

"I'll take a biopsy to make sure"

Carcinoma, I thought dully. Carcinoma. Both my parent's had died from cancer, so I knew what the word meant. 

I had skin cancer. 

The next ten minutes: scraping of the pimple that had never healed on my cheek, then an explanation of how I would book surgery that went over my head. I asked if it would be written on a sheet of paper - "I'm just not thinking clearly right now." My Derm smiled, "Yes." 

I didn't know that that sheet was just the beginning of the paper trail that cancer created. Even a simple skin cancer, the 'no big deal,' the 'we get hundreds of cases a month' it's just surgery type of cancer. 

It was decided - I would get an outpatient procedure, booked in the late afternoon, an operation called Mohs surgery. No chemotherapy, no radiation. 

One day I would have cancer, the next I wouldn't. 

Maybe I would have been fine, maybe I would have been as relaxed as other people who take a small operation like this one in stride. Maybe.

But I made one big mistake - I Googled Mohs Surgery. 

Then I waited until it was late at night, after my concerned, loving husband had gone to sleep and I searched on Youtube for "Mohs surgery cheek."

That's when the anxiety started, an empty levitating heaviness in the pit of my stomach and pressing tightness in my heart. 

All I could think of was being permanently disfigured. 

Instead of imagining a healthy recovery, I was mentally preparing myself for the worst - and giving myself a huge case of anxiety.

Post-op visit to my dermatologist after skin cancer surgery

Hello, my name is Kathleen Lisson and I am a Meditation Teacher and Board Certified Massage Therapist in San Diego, CA. I specialize in helping people prepare for and recover from plastic, orthopedic and reconstructive surgery. 

Why do I have such a passion for helping others get back to living their life after surgery? I have had both really good operations and much more traumatic surgery experiences, and I spent time last year thinking deeply about what happened differently in each situation to make my experience so different. 

I had reconstructive surgery almost a decade ago after a skiing accident and felt completely at ease because I intuitively had positive thoughts about my recovery. In contrast, the 2016 surgery to remove skin cancer from my face didn't go so well because I spent time looking at worst-case scenario Youtube videos instead of thinking positively. 

A few weeks after the Mohs surgery in San Diego

Whenever I have a traumatic experience, I try to find a way to use it in a positive way to help others. After my surgery and recovery were underway, I searched for the answers I didn't find before my operation - how can people facing surgery reduce anxiety and keep their mind focused on healing?

I was very fortunate to find Peggy Huddleston's Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with Relaxation and Quick Start CD: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques earlier this year. Huddleston's method of focusing on positive imagery before surgery has resulted in patients reducing their anxiety levels before surgery and using less pain medication and recovering faster after their operation. The power of focusing on personalized positive imagery has been documented in research studies at the Lahey Clinic (Tufts University Medical School), New England Baptist Hospital (Tufts University Medical School) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School). 

After reading her book, I jumped at the chance to personally train with Huddleston and I now offer a workshop in San Diego based on the methods and research in Peggy Huddleston's Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with Relaxation and Quick Start CD: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques. This one hour program provides San Diegans facing surgery with the many of the tools we need to use personalized positive imagery to help reduce anxiety before an operation. 

I know how anxiety-provoking surgery can be. Invest an hour of your time to learn how to use personalized positive imagery, family and friends and your surgical team to improve your recovery from plastic, orthopedic or reconstructive surgery in San Diego.  

To find a list of upcoming workshops, visit http://www.solacesandiego.com/sandiegolymphaticmassage

Buy the book here: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with Relaxation and Quick Start CD: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques

Why get Manual Lymphatic Drainage Massage after surgery?

Should I Try Lymphatic Massage after Surgery?

by Kathleen Lisson, CMT, CLT (CAMTC #70128)

Lymphatic Massage in San Diego

Exams. Surgery. Medications. 

You've been through enough already.

Would you rather spend another hour at a medical office or enjoy the expertise of a CLT and the caring hands of a massage therapist in the comfort of your own home? 

No white lab coats. No machines.

Just a warm smile and a well-trained, compassionate set of hands using a European technique for effectively reducing swelling, introduced in the South of France and perfected in Germany. 

 

Our goal: reduce swelling and tightness after surgery and get you back to living your life again and spending quality time with your family.

Hello, I am Kathleen, a 42 year old meditation teacher and Board Certified massage therapist living in San Diego. I specialize in manual lymphatic drainage, a type of massage that works with the power of your lymphatic system to reduce the effects of post-surgical swelling ( plastic and orthopedic surgery ) and lymphedema. 

I also hold workshops on reducing anxiety before surgery with the proven relaxation techniques detailed in Peggy Huddleston's ''Prepare for Surgery, Feel Better' book. 

For more information on preparing for surgery and enhancing your recovery, visit SolaceSanDiego.com and email me at solacesandiego@gmail.com or call 619-880-6538.

Posted on Medium: Supplements and Teas: What is 'safe' and 'healthy' to take before plastic surgery

Supplements and teas: What is ‘safe’ and ‘healthy’ to take before Plastic Surgery

by Kathleen Lisson, CMT, CLT

I recently posted an article offering tips from several Board Certified plastic surgeons on what NOT to take before plastic and cosmetic surgery. Read the article here: 

https://medium.com/@Kathleenlisson/dont-be-fooled-by-these-myths-what-is-safe-and-healthy-to-do-before-plastic-surgery-20b07a8b904b#.gyo9gxjl6

If I have one book recommendation for pre-surgery nutrition, it is Eat, Drink, Heal: The Art and Science of Surgical Nutrition by Dr. Gregory Buford. Dr. Buford offers comprehensive advice on what supplements to take and which ones to quit, as well as dietary advice. 

About Kathleen Lisson
As a Board Certified massage therapist with advanced training in Manual Lymphatic Drainage, I help women and men in the San Diego area reduce the tight, full, heavy feeling that comes with swelling after facelifts, tummy tucks, liposuction and other plastic surgery operations. I make housecalls! To schedule a treatment, please visit http://www.solacesandiego.com

Plastic Surgery Research Tip - Book Review of 'The Essential Cosmetic Surgery Companion' by Robert Kotler, MD, FACS

Plastic Surgery Book Review: 'The Essential Cosmetic Surgery Companion' by Robert Kotler, MD, FACS

by Kathleen Lisson, CMT, CLT

Board Certified Massage Therapist Kathleen Lisson reviews the book 'The Essential Cosmetic Surgery Companion: Don't Consult a Cosmetic Surgeon Without This Book!' by Robert Kotler, MD, FACS. The biggest value in this book is the extensive lists of questions Dr. Kolter recommends that potential plastic surgery clients ask cosmetic surgeons during the initial consultation.

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozawHVO3W1U

As a Board Certified massage therapist, with advanced training in Manual Lymphatic Drainage, I help women and men in the San Diego area reduce the tight, full, heavy feeling that comes with swelling after facelifts, tummy tucks, liposuction and other plastic surgery operations. To schedule a treatment, please visit http://www.solacesandiego.com