And now, the end is nearCould this be the final curtain? First of all – it is CE (Continuing Education) NOT CE U. One CE credit is 60 minutes of instruction. One CE hour is 60 minutes of instruction. One clock hour is 60 minutes of instruction. One contact hour is 50 minutes of instruction. […]
If we are not at the table, we are on the menu.
If you are not at the table, you are on the menu is a political saying that supposedly comes out of WA DC in about 2000 with no known origin. I first heard it said that the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education Conference (I think in about 2010) in Tuscon AZ by John Weeks, publisher/editor […]
Creating Your Policies and Procedures
One of the biggest acts of self care is setting your policies and procedures and learning to enforce them in a way that supports your values. It also helps create the framework for the therapeutic relationship. When clients/potential clients know where you stand and what they are responsible for it shows them where your boundaries […]
Show me the evidence
Evidence based massage therapy – what is it really and do we want to make sure that massage therapy that is done with clients/patients is evidence based? I have thought so for awhile, but a few weeks ago when an associate attended a presentation Healthier WA by the WA State Health Care Authority and heard […]
Dating Massage Clients
What if you really really really fall head over heels for a massage client and go on to date them? What is happening is called counter-transference and it happens in every relationship really and is called projection in other relationships. Because you are meeting someone under the premise that you will provide massage therapy for […]
Charging what you are worth is BS
Where in the world has this idea of charging what you are worth or knowing what you are worth has come from? I see many massage therapists talking about it and high-fiving each other for every little thing that they do explaining that they now know their worth. It is BS. Somehow the idea that […]