Sometimes we massage therapists get our best quips quite spontaneously from our clients. I haven’t done a top-ten list lately….so… Top Ten Best Quips from Clients Mid-Massage Number 10: “The combination to the safe is 35 left, 56 right and 22 left.” Number Nine: “Do you wash your sheets?” Number Eight: “Ever … Continue reading Massage Mercies
Reading the paper this morning, (I know, how old-fashioned of me!) I found myself very interested in the story of a fellow who had gone to a psychiatrist for treatment of depression. As the patient went through a few sessions, he said it became apparent that the therapist had honed in on what he felt … Continue reading Therapy of a Kind
Providing massages for married couples has always been a pleasure. I enjoy seeing the same people for massages and hearing from them how they are doing with life’s stresses – the kids, the business, the in-laws, whatever. It’s always made business sense as well. I will do two instead of one massage at a … Continue reading Un-Couplings
Clients often ask me how many times they should be doing an exercise to build strength. Often they are coming from a more-is-better place – the gym – and they are confused. I don’t always feel comfortable answering that question, either. How many repetitions of an exercise are fine may well depend on what the … Continue reading How Many Repetitions Are Enough?
When it comes to face-down offers on the table, I thought women therapists would have the best stories. Oooh my, I was mistaken. Well, OK, the female therapist who told me she was propositioned by the rabbi was a good one. It was during one of those long holiday weeks and there was a religious … Continue reading Little Women and Gentle Men
I don’t like to think about sex in the context of massage, but I am somewhat ticked at what I see as some pretty serious whining going on amongst male therapists responding to Lynna Dunn’s recent article about “discrimination” against male therapists. Gentlemen, please put yourselves in the place of the person at the front … Continue reading Gender of-Fenders and Service with a Smile
As I recall, “U Stink But I Luv U” was a single recorded by the fictional Billy and the Boingers, a musical group composed of Opus, Bill the Cat, and other characters from the cartoon strip Bloom County. Bloom County was a favorite pleasure back in the 80’s before the writer Berke Breathed refused to … Continue reading U Stink But I Luv U
I just do insurance massages, I don’t bill for them (thank the Gods). My wonderful boss is the one who walks the labyrinth on that one. So I was perplexed last week when a regular client came in feeling a touch irritated and betrayed about being billed for entire insurance sessions at the chiropractor’s office. … Continue reading Insurance Massage: What Makes a Session a Session?
Well, it’s been kind of tense around my house lately, largely because my honey has spent the last three months on the jury for a creepy serial killer accused of five murders. I must say, I ran out of jokes and quick subject changes when it all came down Tuesday with the death sentence. Not … Continue reading Buckets O’ Stress
Nobody would start a war over a table, right? Well, wars have started over less. In this case, the possible storm brewing involves an electric lift table, the only one in the six-room massage business where I work. When I first began working there, I was afraid I had become too spoiled with electric lift … Continue reading The War of the Table