What do you think when you hear the term “self-care”? Bubble baths and facials, right? That’s what I used to think. Other descriptors that came to my mind were pampered, selfish and indulgent. I even thought that self-care was a sign of weakness or, at the very least, could make me weak. But I was [...]
The MT Revolution didn’t happen overnight. Counting our combined massage experience, it took Krista Dicks (Radical RMT podcast) and me forty-plus years to get here. During that time, we learned how take care of ourselves in certain ways. For instance, I figured out how to massage pain-free. But as valuable as massaging pain-free is, it [...]
I was caught in a massage catch 22. Initially, massage gave me freedom (time to do what I wanted to do), but not much money. And then when I started chasing the money, I lost my freedom. It took me many years before I discovered another way where I could have both freedom and money doing [...]
Here’s the foundation to staying out of pain when doing massage: massage options (as in different ways to get the job done). I’m not talking about advanced massage techniques here. I’m talking about options for pressing, gliding, squeezing, stretching and vibrating soft tissue without causing yourself pain. For example, say you were taught to use [...]
