I recently had the opportunity to speak with Chris Korol, co-founder of Full Slate, which is a company that provides a popular online appointment scheduling solution for many massage clinics and other small businesses in the health and beauty space. I was really impressed with what I learned about Full Slate and wanted to share … Continue reading Full Slate – The convenience of online scheduling within your reach! →

My mother had a term for gifts given without a reason: love gifts. Unlike Christmas, Valentine, or birthday gifts, love gifts just come out-of-the-blue on any old day, for no other reason that you love someone. Not hearts-and-flowers love, necessarily. Just any quantity or variety of like, love, respect, admiration, etc. For example, last week … Continue reading Love Gifts →

Massage therapists often hear from clients that chocolate or caffeine drinks trigger headaches. When you work with people seeking relief from pain, these common trigger patterns tend to emerge – certain foods or bright lights, loud noises, etc. Over the past 15 years of doing massages, I’ve observed some interesting developments on the list of … Continue reading Triggers and Patterns and Bears, Oh My! →

My fingers were trying to get these medial scalenes to show some sign of softness and life. Rebar. These scalenes felt like rebar. You know, that metal stuff they put in concrete to stabilize it. Rusty rebar. My neck always hurts there, my client said. Would you like to get rid of it? I replied. … Continue reading Accidents Happen →

A client asked me the other day if someone–a very wealthy person or even a celebrity–asked me to be his or her personal therapist on a yearly salary, would I take the job? She added that Bob Hope had a personal massage therapist and she was sure there were others out there who employed personal … Continue reading Celebrity Massage Careers →

I’m not one to whine – except in this space – and I have been floundering in computer virus hell for nearly a month. Cesar, the techie not the general, finally brought my computer back today and after some standard confusion, I’m at the keyboard again. Which is to say I’m at a crossroads. I’d … Continue reading Virusly Yours →

I think I’m becoming a Grinch about noise. Because it was the well-loved Grinchy-Claus who once worried,   …All the Who girls and boysWould wake up bright and early. They’d rush for their toys!And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! Normally, I think total quiet is not only artificial, it’s too … Continue reading Fight Noise with White Noise? →

Doing a massage the other day on a lady who works as an emergency room nurse at a local hospital, I ran into some solid granite. “I don’t like chiropractors,” she said. Ok. Why? “We see people in the emergency room all the time. The chiropractor adjusted them and they come in later in pain … Continue reading Crunch Time →

I love continuing education classes, because I love learning new things. But I have to say, they’re hard on me. I worked my days off this week so that I could afford to take the “time off” to take a class. And a class is not a vacation. For one thing, like many therapists, I’m … Continue reading CE Toxicity →