Tag: children

  • Massage and Mental Health

    Namaste There is much more talk now about mental health like it is something we discovered during the lockdown, (the Social Workers must be cringing) that I decided to see how many instances I can label.  In reviewing my journals I saw an entry from 2006 of conversation with an Editor of a magazine about…

  • Intimate Relationship Abuse

    Namaste How can Massage Therapy be of any help to women who suffer from abuse?  After a few minutes of persuasive conversation from a friend, I accepted an invitation to participate in a group chat about domestic abuse.  She understood that my contribution might have no straight line to the issue at hand, but she…

  • Learning to Lean

    Namaste Jagged Little Pill album on blast. Alanis is screaming at me through Forgiven in this moment. I’m nose deep in my blog archives and some of these experiences require spirits in a shot glass, but I’m settling for alternative rock. Come on down memory lane with me, again, if you remember reading this one.…

  • Stress Reduction

    Namaste It is important for us to appreciate that we process stress different because everyone is different. We must therefore try to understand how we perceive and respond to stress so that we can adapt the appropriate coping techniques for our circumstances. If allowed, stress can make us ill and keep us ill. One way…

  • Eczema

    This disease is associated with infancy and early childhood with evidence appearing on the face, head, folds of the elbows, the knees or the groin. During the acute stage it causes inflamed red, dry and itchy skin. Sometimes the patches blister and weep before the area eventually crusts over. This is often brought on by…

  • Trip, Trip

    Namaste Was on my way out… Called my usual taxi driver and he answered saying he was in the hospital due to a lung infection. Curious. This is a guy who is proud of his e-cigars. Did he get the infection from one, or did he get the infection from whatever he was weaning himself…

  • Lymph Drainage Massage

    Namaste Got mail. Subject: Why me? Good night, An update on what’s going on in one part of my life. I recently noticed a pain in my left breast. I decided to visit a Doctor (Public Hospital…worst service ever). He examined me after asking a few questions and prescribe some pills after concluding that my…

  • Intellectual Distress

    Namaste Each time I go through the business handout I wonder whether I am qualified to talk about that subject.  When I look around at what is still potential I have to wonder if it is that I am lacking the social, communication, and reasoning competencies needed for success in this career.  I have clients…

  • Inner Massage

    Namaste It is always interesting how I never know what I am going to write about next, then something happens and a long string of words ensue. Let me tell you what happened…  My friend called to thank me for loaf of bread I sent her and inquired of the ingredients as she felt we…

  • Options

    Namaste I am on vacation (don’t ask where), but I’m still doing massages at my discretion…as if it was any other way. It was after 8pm when someone called to find out if I do massage and ting and I was in no mood to ask him to clarify what he meant, nor to explain what…