Heard This Week on the Massage Table

My ten year old client told me she was going to close her eyes but not go to sleep. She barely got the words out before her snoring began.

An older gentleman that I have worked with for 12 years now has slowly but surely came to be one of my trusted advisors on all things--and I do mean all things.  When he wants to advise me but is not sure how I will react he always says "If you ask me my opinion, I will tell you what I think." So he is concerned about me being single now and likes to ask me what I have done since he saw me last. Nine times out of ten I tell him I sat on the sofa and binge watched something to rot my brain. Last visit, after I tell him my boring life details he says "I keep coming in here every week and hoping that you will tell me you got wild and went out and did something exciting. Can you work on that please?"

"You have a gun....in your dining room." Reaction to seeing my pretty pink bb gun.

One of my trade buddies and I have been experimenting with intra-oral massage. The idea is that if you release all the mimic muscles, the muscles that allow us to make expressions, you get a natural facelift. It is also effective for TMJ and headache relief. Last week when we traded she told me that she thought she had been too aggressive with her jaws and had pain that referred to the top of her head. So I started palpating around the muscles that she thought she had injured, but was unable to find anything out of the ordinary. When I felt the top of her head I found a huge bump. I told her that it felt more like she had knocked her brains loose on something rather than her facial massage. She immediately started laughing and said "Oh my god! I forgot that I hit my head on an open cabinet door the other day! Let's go with your findings, it's so much better than me hurting myself."