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On ‘skin hunger’ and how my Introduction to Touch Massage may help

It could be said that we all have an ideal amount of touch we’d like to receive at any given moment in time, and an actual amount that we ac

What matters to me this Pride month, and always.

As the month of June approached, I sent out my June newsletter in the last day of May. Two days later, I felt terribly guilty when my...

A perspective on the use of touch in therapy.

A perspective on the use of touch in therapeutic settings. When is it ok to touch?

Fellow bodyworker? This is how I keep myself safe

I'm pretty confident that you know exactly what I'm talking about and if you don't, well, perhaps you've taken all the rights steps in...

The many masks of my dysregulation and the value of Somatic Trauma Therapy

Some psychotherapists and psychologists will tell you that self-disclosure in a therapeutic relationship is a big ‘No-No’. This has often...

Masseur, massage therapist and the elephant in the room

Us massage therapists have regularly come across this problem. To educate or not to educate someone who just used the word ‘masseur’ (or...

A touch therapist's perspective on cultural appropriation

For a while I have intended to articulate my thoughts on the cultural appropriation of indigenous knowledge, practices and beliefs in the...