July 2024 massage therapy industry update: Regulatory changes, school closures, research highlights, and upcoming events. Stay informed on the latest developments shaping the profession. ...more
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August 29, 2024•7 min read
Dame Cicely Saunders defined the concept of “total pain” as the suffering that encompasses all of a person’s physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical struggles back in 1964. Now, that... ...more
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August 01, 2024•4 min read
Healwell plants seeds. Seeds take time to grow. Saplings don’t provide shade…yet. Flowers don’t bloom right away. Change is a process. That’s what we do. We tend. We water. We weed. We cultivate the s... ...more
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June 17, 2024•2 min read
Will offering massage therapy increase a hospital's HCAHPs? Probably not the way you might think... Certainly, the hospital-based massage therapists I’ve met and trained are quite flexible, but we mak... ...more
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May 30, 2024•7 min read
Demystify massage therapy organizations. Learn about major associations and their roles. ...more
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April 30, 2024•3 min read
Healwell's new logo is based on dandelion imagery which, I think you’ll agree, is deeply fitting. ...more
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January 25, 2024•3 min read
Massage therapists are more than “nice to have.” ...more
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September 08, 2023•7 min read
None of us know the names of the Black women with breast cancer who make up the “40% more” deaths than their white counterparts every year. This is partly by design. ...more
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August 03, 2023•5 min read
It's no surprise to you that humans are social creatures. We crave connection and the feeling of belonging. ...more
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July 24, 2023•2 min read
Corey Rivera created this excellent infographic to help you understand Healwell's latest dosing study. ...more
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July 01, 2023•0 min read
Corey Rivera shares three reasons you should read research... and three reasons why you might not. ...more
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June 27, 2023•2 min read
You already know that Healwell does important work. What you might not know is that all that work is made possible by generous people like you. ...more
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May 08, 2023•4 min read
Have you ever gone to a funeral, and the deceased wasn't there? ...more
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April 14, 2023•3 min read
Every word and action make an impact. ...more
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February 15, 2023•1 min read
July is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness month for recognizing the 300,000 or so children in the U.S. with the disease. ...more
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July 04, 2022•3 min read
Massage therapy has a sex problem. We don’t like to talk about it. ...more
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June 20, 2022•6 min read
I trust nurses. Doctors? Sure, they’re fine, they diagnose and treat. But nurses do the hardest work – the care work – without the accolades or the pay that doctors receive. ...more
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May 20, 2022•2 min read
I have two experiences that are coming together in my life in a very interesting way... ...more
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April 27, 2022•2 min read
Can social media be useful in the fight for social justice, or are you just screaming into the void? ...more
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March 31, 2022•1 min read
Cal's most recent column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine explores four reasons why it's difficult to conduct a proper study. ...more
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March 14, 2022•2 min read
Apology and forgiveness. So simple, right? Then why do we all find it so difficult? ...more
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March 04, 2022•1 min read
The term Social Justice Warrior is often used to refer to people who lean left, liberal or progressive, believe in fairness and generally live in a way that makes it clear that they’re not down with t... ...more
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February 24, 2022•5 min read
There is more than one way to fight. More than one way to change the future. There has to be. ...more
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February 09, 2022•4 min read
Healthcare professionals (and everyone) need to have more and better conversations about end of life choices and advanced care plans. ...more
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February 01, 2022•1 min read
Being a massage therapist is a rough gig... Among the things that could be under our control, there is a quietly looming monster that patiently waits: disability. ...more
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January 22, 2022•3 min read
What happens when you can’t massage anymore? This is the first of a two-part description on the decline of my ability to perform massage. ...more
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January 15, 2022•4 min read
Cal's column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine explores ways that massage therapists can stop being purveyors of misinformation. ...more
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January 07, 2022•1 min read
“I do not make resolutions. Winter is not the time to suddenly stop eating.” ~Me on facebook, every year since 2017 ...more
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January 03, 2022•1 min read
There are so many moments when, if I am listening, I have my every assumption challenged. ...more
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December 15, 2021•2 min read
Luckily, rebellions aren’t about what they want us to be, they’re about what we want to create. Sometimes the most defiant acts are those of joy, happiness, and community. ...more
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December 01, 2021•2 min read
Massage uses ostriching as a default response to being wrong. A profession that wants to be taken seriously as healthcare should not act this way. ...more
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November 16, 2021•3 min read
In this edition of their column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Cal warns, "If you’re feeling bored or finding yourself rolling your eyes at “yet another COVID story,” snap out of it. ...more
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November 08, 2021•1 min read
In this column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Cal explores measuring the value of the practitioner, not the modality. ...more
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September 07, 2021•1 min read
Cal's column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine tackles the stories we tell about health and explores how to dismantle our assumptions. ...more
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July 02, 2021•1 min read
Follow-up to "The Worst Things (Part 2)." Resources and recommendations to combat the silo-ing and imagined hierarchy within the massage therapy profession. ...more
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April 16, 2021•2 min read
This week, we consider the issue of silos and what can reasonably be called in-fighting. ...more
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April 12, 2021•3 min read
Follow-up to "The Worst Things (Part 1)." Resources to support self-exploration and elevation of the practice that's happening right under your own hands. ...more
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April 09, 2021•1 min read
Healwell’s post regarding the social media response to the Atlanta murders that took place at three spas inspired lots of dialogue. ...more
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April 05, 2021•4 min read
Yesterday morning, nine people were shot in Atlanta at what are being referred to as “massage parlors;” eight of these people were shot fatally. Six of them were Asian women. ...more
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March 18, 2021•5 min read
As the Education Director for Healwell, I spend a lot of time in gratitude... Today, I want to talk to the students. ...more
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January 12, 2021•6 min read
Healwell is now a C-TAC member and we’re really looking forward to attending the upcoming annual C-TAC Summit: Improving Lives by Facing Systemic Injustice, October 28-30, 2020. ...more
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September 14, 2020•3 min read
As many of you know, Healwell recently ended its affiliation with Amazon’s “Smile” program. We have heard from some of you and we are deeply sorry that our message did not land as we intended. ...more
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August 28, 2020•4 min read
When I began my training in palliative and end-of-life care, I watched peers laugh and roll their eyes about the inevitable question, “How can you do that kind of work?” ...more
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August 17, 2020•3 min read
Wednesday morning I woke up feeling off, just a little tired. It was easy to think I just didn’t have enough sleep. ...more
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July 23, 2020•3 min read
Do you know about C-TAC? Chances are good that you don’t. ...more
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July 10, 2020•2 min read
Healwell turns 10 this week. It’s an anniversary that is much sadder than I would have envisioned... ...more
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June 11, 2020•8 min read
In the time since early March, we have been brought face-to-face with two serious diseases. One, COVID-19, is spread through droplets. The other, racism, is spread through ignorance and fear. ...more
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June 08, 2020•9 min read
FSMTB convened a task force a few weeks ago to put their giant-sized brains together to outline some real guidelines for massage therapists practicing in a variety of settings for safe practice during... ...more
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May 21, 2020•6 min read
I have been a massage therapist since 2005. If, in pre-COVID-19 times, you were a massage therapy consumer, thank you. ...more
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May 15, 2020•4 min read
At Healwell, we have gotten a number of questions from therapists all over the US asking if their liability insurance "covers" them in the event that they get COVID-19 or one of their clients gets COV... ...more
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May 11, 2020•4 min read
It’s hard to hold the hot potato, friends. At Healwell, we expect to continue to do it for a while longer. ...more
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May 10, 2020•6 min read
If another AMTA chapter president calls or emails me for advice and love, I’m going to reach out to National for alimony. ...more
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May 04, 2020•8 min read
Healwell has been watching our profession divide along the same rancorous political lines as our country. It doesn't have to do that. ...more
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April 24, 2020•4 min read
Hello, my massage therapist friends. This is so, so hard. ...more
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April 21, 2020•2 min read
Man, I miss my clients. I hope they miss me. The people I touch are a huge part of my life and even of who I am. ...more
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March 23, 2020•5 min read
Hello, my dearest fellow humans. This is quite a situation in which we find ourselves, isn’t it? ...more
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March 18, 2020•3 min read
I am an educated professional. I worked hard to get my license, and I seek out quality continuing education every year... ...more
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December 10, 2019•4 min read
“Hands are pretty damn good…and? We [massage therapists] need to be more than that for people.” ...more
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June 17, 2019•2 min read
A bill has been introduced in Maine, HB 0255, “An Act To Define Licensed Massage Therapists as Health Care Practitioners...” ...more
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February 14, 2019•4 min read
This month I am embarking on a new and slightly terrifying adventure — I am hosting Healwell’s new webinar series, the Interdisciplinary Clan of Mystery. ...more
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September 16, 2018•3 min read
Meet Katherine LaVelle, one of the rock-star members of our Board of Directors! ...more
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May 24, 2018•3 min read
She looks stunned, mystified. She looks like she has just seen the Statue of Liberty disappear. She looks like she has been touched by magic. ...more
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April 15, 2018•4 min read
If “one incident is too many,” then what exactly is 200? That’s my question to Massage Envy... ...more
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December 27, 2017•5 min read
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