Okay, so no whining or anything this time, because I have been pretty busy lately. Busy enough I’m starting to get a little silly. So Saturday I did like 500 massages in 10 hours and I left the I-Pod in the car and had to play my CD player, antique that it is, all day … Continue reading Massage Music We’d Enjoy Hearing Again, Again, and Again….
When I have a client in pain, either from emotional or physical issues, I ask a lot about the pain, but I also ask other questions such as “Are you sleeping?” Often the answer is “no” or “not well” or “sometimes.” And since sleep time is the body’s healing time, not sleeping or not sleeping … Continue reading Sleepy Time
Saturday one of my clients was asking about aromatherapy, and I gave her a few pointers for home use and recommended an aromatherapy reference book I thumbed through at Barnes & Noble. “Wow, you really have a lot of knowledge about this,” my client said. I love those ego boosting compliments. It’s a great part … Continue reading The Coffee Joint
Miscommunication. It happens sometimes. A client recently told me about how her poor little toy poodle accidentally feel in the icy cold backyard swimming pool the other day. Rushing him into the house wrapped in a towel, she shrieked up the stairs to her husband, “Hey!! Dottie fell in the pool!” To which he called … Continue reading Connecting, Communicating, and Becoming the Drop of Water that Forms a Canyon
Are massage therapists flaky as a demographic? Someone asked me that question recently: another therapist, actually. We were shaking our heads over tales of therapists not showing up for shifts; therapists throwing fits over one client too many, or one client too few, or one client too pregnant; therapists simply disappearing into the sunset, destination … Continue reading The Flake Factor
This was one request I had not run into before – a gentleman called to request I do a half-hour pregnancy massage for his wife, who was undergoing pre-term labor (33 weeks) contractions and was in the hospital. I have been certified in pregnancy and post-partum massage for several years, but I must admit this … Continue reading Preterm Labor and Massage
In the morning, my boyfriend Marshall and I will be traveling to Bellingham, a Seattle suburb, for his grandmother’s memorial service: she died last week at the age of ninety-two. Although the family had a known for a while that she would soon be passing, it was still difficult, in some ways, to see her … Continue reading The Skin Horse Tells His Story
It seems that at least once or twice a month our massage business gets a call from some weirdo/chauvinist/pervert. How does one get tagged with the label “weirdo/chauvinist/pervert?” Well, one calls the front desk of a massage business and asks about booking a massage and wants to know more about what kinds of massage we … Continue reading 1-800-NO-PERVERTS
Bet you thought nothing could smell worse than burnt microwave popcorn. You know, so did I . . . until last week when one of our therapists set a paper towel on fire. It was unbelievably nasty. And that was on top of all the industrial fire alarms in our strip going off, the fire … Continue reading Sucking Up Bad Smells
Dear Clients: When will you hear what I say? Parents understand this concept perhaps most. Parents can say “don’t slam the door; hang up your clothes or look both ways before you cross” about 6,000 times and it may take anywhere from 5 to 18 years for a child to “hear” them. It’s not that … Continue reading Relax your Shoulders.. and Other Urban Myths