After returning from a week’s vacation while the final touches were being organized in my new office, I had the chance to get a couple of massages. Have you had the experience where you wish you could tell the person to just stop? Or inform them that the pain you feel doesn’t seem quite right? Or catch yourself wondering why they need to spend so much time with their elbow pressing against your spine again and again….
While occasionally useful for relaxing (sometimes) and making time for yourself, a massage has its place; but for those of you who are interested in a personalized, targeted, and overwhelmingly high-quality trajectory of feeling more balanced and energized, it’s time to consider an alternative approach. That’s where my role as a professional body therapist comes into play.
Many people initially schedule appointments with me for the same reasons they see a massage therapist. But seeing a massage therapist is like placing a band-aid on the problem again and again. And it can prevent you from really solving the problem. My role is the get at the source of your limitation, and work with you to resolve it.
Then a massage becomes a relaxation enhancement instead of your way of managing pain and getting you more mobile for a few days or hours.
In spite of it all, there is something to be said for 85 degrees and Sunny. Luckily Punxsutawney Phil has left us with some positive news this weekend: an early Spring.
I look forward to hearing from you, answering your questions over the phone or email. And most certainly working with you to help make sense of whatever is happening, and in doing so create a personalized treatment plan to get you to where you want to be. Not through magic or false hope, but because we work together to untie the knots that have built up, in your muscles, in your bones, in your habits, movements, and postures.
Bring it to the table and be amazed at what happens.