Twenty years ago, a thought came to me during a massage therapy session. It floated into my massage studio and would not leave. I wrote it down. Once published, the thought kept moving. It turned up here and there: in a couple of books, in an occasional massage school graduation speech, on a massage therapist’s […]
The Massage Meant for Someone Else
Each time I teach a new group of students, it takes me a day or two to learn their names, and to straighten them out in my mind. The first day of a course finds me squinting at name tags and mouthing their names as I move through the room. When there are two students […]
Facebook Humor and the Massage Therapy Profession
It starts like this: “You’re in a mental hospital. Use the first 7 people on your chat list to fill in below…” When this popped up in my Facebook feed recently, something in me snapped. Why? The game asks you to assign 7 people on your chat list to be characters with you in a […]