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 […]
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Masseuse/Masseur – what’s in a name?
Masseuse or Masseur have been used since the early 1800’s to refer to people who perform massage’s professionally. They are said to work at Massage Parlors. This was true before 1980 when people who perform massage professionally were beginning to be referred to as massage therapists. Today in the U.S., the words have become more […]
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 ides that […]