When clients ask me, "Why did you become a massage therapist?" I always go back to 8 year old me, sitting on a bed in a hotel room in Red Bluff, CA (USA). I was massaging my grandmothers shoulders and back, and maybe she was just being kind and trying to build my confidence, but she told me when I finished, "That was so nice! You should be a massage therapist when you grow up." I had never heard of a "massage therapist" before but this interaction always stayed with me. As I grew, I was always drawn to healing work. I was raised by a pretty hippy-dippy mother, and essential oils, energy work, and natural healing were common resources and topics of conversation in my home. I never felt like I had a "gift" like some energy/body work people feel they have, but I still couldn't deny the pull I felt towards a job and career in a medical profession. I bounced between several plans as I think most of us do, but they always stayed in the sam...