Human Touch

Tonight, I had a client say, "This is not to be taken in a weird way, ok? But, my husband died 2 years ago and this is the only form of human touch I get."

I said, "It's not weird at all and you are not the first person to say that to me. Honestly, I had a client quite a few years ago. He was a psychiatrist who said the same exact thing, but under different circumstances. He said his wife of 20 years left him for someone else. He was middle aged, fat and balding, and at that point in time when the younger women you are attracted to aren't attracted to you, so it's so much harder to get intimacy...not even just sex, but just a warm hug, or even a normal conversation where someone is just listening to all my problems or someone I can cry to...or even just get a big warm hug from? Well, back in the 1940s or 1950s, people did a test on newborn babies, where they didn't touch them, and some of them got very sick or died. Why should the need for human touch stop when we become adults?"

You know what...my understanding and the fact I've been a massage therapist for 14 years has allowed me to meet literally THOUSANDS of people of many different backgrounds, so when one person thinks they are the only one with a particular issue, I have a story to tell them that makes them feel they are normal again...I was able to rebook her as well, and I can't wait to be the person to lay my healing hands on her. 

That's what being a Massage Therapist is all about.