During this holiday season we wanted to declare our gratitude to our friends, team members, networking connections, community partners and of course, to our wonderful clients who have made this success happen. All this is now happening with me being retired from active massage for the past 3 1/2 years. I'm grateful that many of my clients, who were so loyal to me as their therapist, have adopted one of our excellent team members, and have continued together, meeting and maintaining their wellness goals. I subscribe to the credo that you cannot evolve to the next level until you train your replacement and in this I have achieved this goal tenfold.
I am also grateful to be working with people in a profession that is inflation or depression proof. As long as we have physical bodies that are stressed from operating in a gravity environment that never turns off, there will be a need for body work. Fads come and go, junk science gets people to invest in so-called short cuts to health, and everyone is looking for that magic pill that helps you lose weight while sleep. In my time as a therapist I've seen people jump on the bandwagon of toxic foot baths, every kind of MLM, wands with magic crystals that remove pain and too many to recount. Truth is there is nothing magical about massage. We are wired for touch and respond in just the right way because of that. It's rare but we do see people whose conditioning has shorted out that wiring that make touch therapeutic. I feel sorry for people who don't have good associations with touch and been programmed to worship on the altar of "Modern Western Medicine". Never the less, we are able to help the vast majority of people and are humbled by the changes we can make in their lives.
