Typically, massage therapists show you a picture of their face, or the space where they work. I don’t touch you with my face, and the space where I work is wherever you are. So here are my hands. What do my hands say? Most often, something like It’s okay. You can let go now.You canContinue reading “I Talk With My Hands”
Author Archives: Rachel Creager Ireland
How Often Massage?
I find myself feeling a little uncomfortable when people ask me how often they should take massage therapy. I think of the places I’ve worked, where there was lots of emphasis on “retention rates,” which is how many of a therapist’s new clients return within a month. So, there was great incentive to say whateverContinue reading “How Often Massage?”
Through the Lion’s Gate
Suddenly all the astrologers are talking about the Lion’s Gate. Apparently this happens every August, but I never heard of it until this week. It’s supposed to have something to do with Sirius and the lions of yesterday and tomorrow. Some are saying it’s a great time for manifestation, but Lorna Bevan says to expectContinue reading “Through the Lion’s Gate”
Epsom salts
Clinton Ober, in his book Earthing, posits that daily life typically leads to imbalance in the natural electrical charge of the body. This has to do with the difference in charge between the earth and the atmosphere. Direct contact with the earth is the simplest way that we regain balance. (I got a C inContinue reading “Epsom salts”
Are You Touch Deprived?
My husband was out of town for a few days on business, then tested positive for covid the day after he came home. Then everyone else in the house got it, except me. (Though I did not take massage appointments while my family was in isolation.) After my second negative test, and several days afterContinue reading “Are You Touch Deprived?”
Rachel Creager Ireland, LMT 