It has been two years since coronavirus turned our world topsy-turvy. Thankfully, with robust vaccination drives and precautionary measures, we continue to brave the pandemic. However, the threat is not yet a thing of the past. Omicron, the most recently reported COVID-19 variant, has been classified as a Variant of Concern by WHO.

Amidst the coronavirus concern, it becomes more important than ever to focus on self-care. If you don’t already have it on your New Year’s resolutions list, add it right away. Self-care should be a top priority because looking after your well-being makes it easier to get through challenging times.

Cooking your favorite meal. Taking a nice bubble bath. Reading a good book cuddled up in bed. Self-care can take many forms.

Let’s start by making a self-care kit! Here are a few things you might want to include:

• A hot cherry pillow
• Your favorite tea
• Chocolates
• Face masks
• A gratitude journal
• Scented candles
• A list of feel-good movies
• Photographs with your loved ones

At Hot Cherry, we understand the significance of self-care, with or without a pandemic. It gives us joy that our cherry-pit-filled pillows help people feel better and are easy to incorporate into self-care routines. Here’s how:

Banish the post-workout muscle fatigue with Hot Cherry Pillows.

Regular exercise is an important investment in your overall well-being, from improving your mood and promoting a better sleep to keeping your weight in check.

If the thought of muscle pain and achy joints after a leg day at the gym makes you feel like skipping exercise, don’t. Once you are done working out, microwave a Hot Cherry Pillow, place it under your stretched out legs, and allow the moist heat to melt the pain away.

Recover from overused muscles or day-to-day aches and pains with Hot Cherry Pillows.

Do you have a teenager who is active in sports? Does your back ache from working in your garden? Do you have a hundred and one errands to run on a daily basis?

The complaints of achy joints, muscle pains, and injury-related swelling, bruising, and sprains may be common at home.

Our therapeutic Hot Cherry Pillows are the answer. They soothe and relieve pain by increasing blood circulation to overworked muscles with moist heat. They also work as cold compresses that aid in treating swelling, sprains, inflammation, and bruising.

Take some ‘me time’ and just RELAX with Hot Cherry Pillows.

No matter how busy you are, it is essential that you take out some “time out” for yourself. This is particularly true if you’re a caregiver or a busy mother.

Take a short nap with a toasty Hot Cherry Pillow. As the moist heat promotes blood flow, the warm cherry pie aroma will comfort your mind. You will wake up feeling energized, focused, and in a better mood.

Mental health must be a priority, ALWAYS.

As the threat of coronavirus still looms in the air, your mental health deserves equal attention, even more, if you happen to be living away from family at the moment. Or feeling stressed, depressed, or overwhelmed from being confined in close quarters with too much family can also be a problem.

Develop healthy practices and habits to honor your personal needs.

A regular meditation and yoga practice can help. The Triple Square Hot Cherry Pillow makes a delightful meditation pillow for chilly winter mornings. Place it on the floor in a triangle shape for a comfortable sitting position. Using one of our eye pillows, warm, cold or room temperature to block out light during savasana is heavenly.

New Year, New You with Hot Cherry Pillows.

Our therapeutic pillows will be your self-care companion all year round. Our pillows are microwavable, freeze-able, and machine washable. Hot Cherry Pillows are here to remind you to take good care of yourself this year.

What are you waiting for? Get your Hot Cherry Therapeutic Pillow right away.

 

Some of us may not be big fans of colder months. The dropping temperatures make daily chores, like walking the dog challenging. But there are plenty of reasons why we look forward to the season (YES, we counted the lined-up holidays, too). Who doesn’t like snuggling with their loved ones and sipping hot chocolate while marveling at the snowy winter landscape?

Our Hot Cherry Pillows make your winter snuggles even more cozy-comfy. Just like the dozens of reasons to get excited about winter, there are ample reasons to love our clean, dried cherry-pit-filled pillows that are one hundred percent sustainable.

Here are a few ways of making the most of your Hot Cherry Pillows this winter season:

Wintery Night Comfort

“Baby it’s cold outside” is an all-time favorite holiday song. What do you do when it is cold outside?

Heat a Hot Cherry Pillow in the microwave for a couple of minutes, then settle in bed or the living room sofa with one of our “snuggable” Hot Cherry pillows. You can either enjoy a holiday movie marathon with your family or read a book before shutting off for the night.

You can fall asleep with the pillow without worrying about getting burnt because a cherry pit pillow gradually cools down. In order to keep it warmer longer, wrap it in a down throw and place it under the covers, it potentially can keep your feet warm all night long.

Bedtime Invitation for the Kids

Getting excited and active kids into bed at bedtime can be a struggle for mamas. Let a Hot Cherry Pillow come to the rescue.

Read a bedtime story to your kids as they cuddle the toasty pillow. The huggable cherry pit pillow will relax them and help their bodies calm down from the day’s activities. A warm bed is very inviting to kids of all ages.

The best part, the pillow is suitable for kids of all ages! An eye pillow is perfect for an infant with a colicky tummy or a larger one to warm the chilly crib sheets before putting them down.

Comforting the Sick

It’s a, sad but true, fact that many people will be suffering from COVID-19 and its Delta and Omicron variants this winter. With coughs, chest colds, aching and chilly bodies, the moist penetrating heat of Hot Cherry Pillows can help relieve some of the pain and stress of being sick. Placed on a congested chess, or alongside chilly limbs, the warmth and weight of our relaxing pillows provide invaluable relief to anyone with this awful illness. A warm Hot Cherry pillow can be a true friend when someone is quarantined during this pandemic. Consider sending Hot Cherry Pillows to those in need of comforting, including the caregivers.

Melt Your Pain Away and Promote a Better Sleep

When you have achy joints, tendons and muscles, it can be difficult to get a good night’s sleep. The healing combination of moisture and heat can alleviate the pain and discomfort of chronic pain. So, warm a Hot Cherry Pillow for comforting relief, warm up your chilly feet ,and finally doze off to a restful sleep. Unlike weighted blankets, our pillows won’t put unnecessary weight on your feet, and you get the same stress-reliving effect of the weight of the pits on your body. We suggest that you use one of our larger body pillows for more coverage.

Thoughtful Holiday Gifting

Hot Cherry Pillows take the stress out of holiday gift exchanges.

Their usability is not limited to colder months or relieving aches and pains with moist heat. They are the perfect cold therapy pillows, too. Cold therapy is usually recommended to reduce swelling.

If you want to gift a present that your family and friends can enjoy throughout the year, go with Hot Cherry Pillows. Why not send our comforting pillows to friends and relatives that you couldn’t meet with this year. Take advantage of our free shipping and use the Code: LOVE20 to receive 20% off this winter.

Order Your Hot Cherry Pillows TODAY

Showing love and appreciation toward your loved ones is not restricted to the holiday season, but the holiday gift-giving tradition is a great way of telling them you care.

Don’t wait! Go to the ‘SHOP Pillows’ page on our website, and place your orders.

The holiday season is upon us, and the spirit of festivity and merrymaking have engulfed us. And, that feeling is amazing! It’s all about enjoying the company of family and friends, sharing traditional meals, and of course, exchanging gifts. 

Between revamping the house for the holidays and deciding the menu for the get-togethers, there are endless things that need your attention. The biggest task is finding the perfect gift for each of your loved ones. Sometimes finding a thoughtful and practical gift for everyone in your circle can be a bit overwhelming. 

Luckily, we have got your back! Our Hot Cherry Pillows are sure to a hit at your gift exchange. They come in different sizes and are great for your five-year-old kid as well as your sixty-five-year-old grandparents. Why? Because nobody ever said NO to warm, toasty hugs from a comfy pillow that smells like cherry pie. 

A Gift with Many Benefits

The hug-friendly, cuddle-approved Hot Cherry Pillows do more than warm your loved ones on cold winter nights. 

• Soothing comfort from everyday aches and pains. Whether you have exceeded your 10,000 steps for the day and your feet, need some TLC, or the chilly weather is causing your back pain to act up, microwave your Hot Cherry Pillow and relax and relieve the stress. Chiropractors and massage therapists have recommended Hot Cherry Pillows for pain relief.
• Much-needed relief from arthritis pain and sports injuries. From increasing circulation (when heated) to reducing swelling (when chilled), our Cherry Pillows are great for easing chronic aches and joint pains when warmed. 
• Naptime friend to your kid. It is hard not to fall asleep while hugging a toasty Hot Cherry Pillow. It is great for toddlers and tweens – it acts as a small body pillow for the baby and helps relax the muscles and calm the mood of a tween. 
• Blessing for mommies-to-be. The bodies of expectant mothers go through a lot of stress. The aromatic warmth of a Hot Cherry Pillow comes in handy. It releases muscle stress by promoting circulation and alleviating pain, allowing the mommy-to-be to relax and get adequate sleep. Our pillow is useful during breastfeeding, too, as moist heat compresses help the milk to flow.
  
  
  
• Pain relief from menstrual cramps. Chocolates, yoga, back massages – you have tried everything to ease period cramps. They work sometimes, and sometimes they don’t. One effective way of eliminating the debilitating period pain is moist heat. Heating pads can be uncomfortable and unsafe, and their dry heat does not address the deep pain like moist heat. So, switch to microwavable Hot Cherry Pillows – they are safe and oh, so soothing. 
• Stress buster. As much as we want to stay away from stress, it sneaks in occasionally, especially during the holidays. Pain in the back, shoulders, and neck are common tell-tale signs of being stressed. The therapeutic cherry pillows not only provide muscle relaxation but also help you drift to sleep. Used during meditation they promote calm and peace. 

Your Loved Ones Deserve the wholesome Goodness of Hot Cherry Pillows.

So, stop browsing mindlessly in the hopes of stumbling upon a WOW gift for your family and friends because you have already found one – Hot Cherry Pillows.

Get one for your people, and watch their faces light up with big smiles when they unwrap your present and try it for the first time!

Happy Holidays! 

Hot Cherry supports Hospice for all the loving care and good works that they do, by donating Hot Cherry pillows to Hospice care facilities in the US and Canada.
 
A little red denim square pillow can be a great comfort for those who are weak and bedridden. Because they don’t move around much, their circulation is poor and they tend to get cold easily. Warm cherry pillows give them much needed warmth and stimulate circulation; bringing oxygen and blood flow to extremities. A cherry pit cushion is much safer than a heating pad because it gradually cools down, and it is cordless, making it far easier to use. Our pillows not only warm the body, but they  can also help with chest and sinus congestion, tummy aches and sore necks. Moist heat is often recommended for arthritis pain, neuropathy due to diabetes, and for the pain of muscle and joint soreness.

Every year we work with various hospice care facilities by having a February fundraiser opportunity. We offer 25% of our sales when their supporters buy Hot Cherry Pillows for themselves or for the caregivers.

Be a supporter, and buy a heart shaped pillow and send it to your favorite caregiver or hospice patient.

Do you know what a Cherry Pit Pillow is? 

It’s a pillow filled with clean, dried cherry pits. When heated they deliver moist penetrating heat. Place them on tight muscles, tummy aches or just to warm beds.

Just about everybody has heard about microwavable pain relievers like buckwheat pillows, or socks filled with rice, corn, flax or other herbal pillows. However, few people in America have heard about cherry pillows. They are, in fact, a Swiss tradition. Foundry workers of ole used heated cherry pit sacks to ease their sore muscles after long days at hard physical work.

I have a friend who was raised in Switzerland, and she remembers her grandmother having a little door on the side of her wood-burning stove where she warmed sacks filled with cherry pits. Every night after dinner her grandmother would place the pit sacks in their beds. Covered with down comforters, those cherry pit sacks kept the family warm all snowy-night long.

The trend soon spread to Germany, where they have their own term for a cherry pit pillow, Kirschkernkissen. I purchased my first cherry pit pack in London. So it’s safe to say that in much of the colder European countries, cherry pit filled pillows are well known and loved.

Often I’m asked, “Who eats all those cherries to get those pits?” I’m proud to answer that our source of cherry pits are 100% from the most precious and favored Montmorency tart cherries. Every July when cherries come in season, the Montmorency cherries are pitted and juiced, as a nutritional supplement, that aids arthritis and sleep, because they contain high levels of antioxidants and melatonin. Instead of going to a landfill, those pits become part of a sustainable product, that are used in spa massage, chiropractic care and home health.

Moreover, our pits are cleaned and dried with a patented process that uses only water and heat, no chemicals. I once ordered a cherry pit pillow from China and was shocked at the horrible chemical smell that almost ruined the microwave. You can be sure that our pits will never mold, smell subtly like cherry pie, are entirely machine washable, and will last for years. In fact, they get better with age as they get “broken-in”.

Now you know what a cherry pit pillow is, here’s what makes Hot Cherry® pillows the best. We offer them in a variety of fabrics and sizes, from eye pillows to body pillows. Choose from natural-dyed 100% cotton denim or our plush maraschino ultra suede. That means that there’s a size and design that’s perfect for your body. We hope that you will relax and enjoy Hot Cherry pillows, warmed or chilled. We love that we make pillows that help people feel better.