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I have heard, over my 18 ½ years as a massage therapist, of a few cases where somebody said they thought they were too fat to get a massage. They would be too embarrassed or too shy about their form, perhaps even thinking a therapist wouldn’t want to touch them.

Well, I want to tell you something a...

Yes, I do. I have worked on pregnant women since the late nineteen-nineties when I was in massage therapy school back in Central Florida. The day we learned side-lying, the most common position in which a pregnant woman receives massage after about four months gestation, I partnered with my class-ma...

Local friends, mark your calendars. I will be teaching a free seminar at New Leaf Market Co-op November 18, 2014, 7:45pm to 8:45pm. I will teach you my recipe for a very life-giving kale salad. As I demonstrate it, I will describe the healing benefits of the various ingredients and share tips on pee...

I have to be honest with you. When October comes, I don’t wear pink clothes or ribbons or even like to see the “pink-washing”, as some people call it today. I have doubts, huge doubts, that this pink campaign does anything to help prevent or cure breast cancer.

Yes, if you get a mammogram, or therm...

Susie is a wife, a mother, and a hard working professional. Like many people, she believed she was too busy for massage. Then one day, her husband got a great idea. He called me up and asked if he could buy a year’s worth of monthly massages for her for her birthday. I was moved by this man’s love o...

I love baths because I find the water element so healing. In various healing traditions, astrology, tarot, and other symbolic contexts, the water element is often representative of the emotional realm.

I have noticed that visiting a large body of water, immersing myself in the ocean or a swimming h...

Are you too busy for a massage? Say it isn’t so! That means you are TOO busy. Slow down and take care of yourself, because if you won’t, who will? Massage therapy is an essential part of preventative health care. Sure, you can go get a massage when you’ve already hurt your back or when you’ve let yo...

Almost everyone who has ever had a massage by me has been taught the doorway stretch.  In my opinion, it is the number one most effective stretch that helps with almost every neck and shoulder problem.

We all slouch.  Our mothers and teachers may have told us to stand up straight, and some of us tr...

I used to get really chilled during the winter, even here in Florida.  It seemed like any time a breeze hit my back, I immediately sneezed and my nose ran.  It made me feel so weak and sickly to be that sensitive to cold.  One fall, as the chill air was setting in, I felt my cold sensitivity develop...

I like to get 90-minute massages.  For years, I almost always got 6o-minute massages, then my LMT friend, Dawn, and I were setting up a trade and she suggested we do ninety minutes.  This was about two years ago.  Wow, I don’t know how I made it 12 or 13 years as a massage therapist, often giving lo...