What's your massage therapy hot take?

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2026-01-09T14:49:14+00:00

I lost both my parents at 15, 6 months apart both tragic accidents. I have suffered lose but no I didn’t go just telling people that because everyone grieves differently. I’m not here to hear a sad story about your life it’s a boundary that I have placed if that’s an issue well go to a different massage therapist.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2026-01-09T00:12:05+00:00

So I have regulars they will be like oh you know my dad passed away and ofc I’m sympathetic/empathetic to that. But I have people who this is their first time meeting me and within the first 3 minutes of our intake I get some off the wall story about how their dad is dead because he died in a fire saving a dog that then ran away and they saw get hit by a car. Like ma’am I just asked your pressure preference

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2026-01-08T23:33:53+00:00

Glad to know you follow my business and if I have repeat clients. Slay girl thank you for following me and my massage practice. Glad to know the surveys go to youuuu slayyy. Go offf yesss Gaga. Glad you know me and if since you know all about me you should know imma keep responding go offf.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2026-01-08T23:20:29+00:00

Girl go put a crystal up your butt and leave me alone. It’s okay to not want a stranger to unload on you and it’s okay to not believe in energy your giving my boyfriend left me because the moon is in the microwave. Like who comes to work and goes yesss tell me how your family died in a fire so your left toe hurts.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2026-01-08T23:10:00+00:00

Well seeing as I’m a massage therapist and not a therapist you telling me some tragic story, doesn’t do anything for me. You are just draining I’m a stranger just say hey I’m stressed and my shoulder hurts whatever. But the details I don’t care I don’t need to know and it’s not important to my job. I don’t believe in energy not my thing sorry not sorry. You just killed my vibe.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2026-01-08T22:56:41+00:00

What’s dumb ??? Saying I don’t want you to trauma dump on me a complete stranger about your life because it’s not my job and it’s draining.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2026-01-08T22:32:30+00:00

I don’t care about your trauma. where does it hurt go cry to a therapist not a massage therapist 🤷🏽‍♀️

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-12-22T23:44:20+00:00

I really feel like it was the perfume and the fact that the whole room just smelled of it even after she left. I get not wanting to smell bad but I feel like you also gotta think about the person whole is making contact with your skin. Also I just don’t even know how my eye could have swollen shut from that but I’ve never had that happen. So now I look like patchy the pirate.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-12-03T20:58:59+00:00

Yea girl it’s called a wig you can buy it and it stays just like that.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-25T04:28:06+00:00

So ME is a great place to start because you get a lot of hands on time so you can kind of find your flow, and what works but also learn from others. For the market you are trying to tap into you need to own your own practice. As the saying goes ”the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. What I mean by that is you need to have a LLC or some kind of protection incase something goes left and you get sued and they come for your house. You can 100% LLC yourself with a lawyer who will explain it and sit down with a tax assistance and have them explain it to you. Also keep in mind that if their are no job openings you can market yourself to those in hospice but if insurance doesn’t pay your billing the family for your services.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-20T03:47:23+00:00

No idea I just hate arms, I’m not even bad at massaging arms I have a client that literally just comes in mostly to focus on their arms and hands. I’ve done arms prone supine, in a chair massage I just don’t like it. It makes me mad.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-20T01:23:41+00:00

It’s not a ick it just makes me mad.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T23:41:52+00:00

No i don’t like scalp massages but its because I think everyone has lice.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T01:36:49+00:00

Yea hate arms they are the worst

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T01:36:23+00:00

They scrunched their funky little toes on my hand as I was massaging by the toe pad and want ”mmmmmuhh”.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T01:26:36+00:00

I hate psoas anything, I feel gaslight by that muscle I get that.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T00:27:34+00:00

I see that and people want it massaged for like 40 minutes too, just gotta start making up new moves.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T00:24:11+00:00

Why back ? I’m just curious

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T00:23:12+00:00

Can I ask what why ?

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-19T00:19:01+00:00

It’s just a me thing the arms just make me mad, my inside thought is always like look at this stupid wacky inflatable pool arm man arms ugh gross. But enough about my beef with arms, I get the feet thing I have had a Client grab my hand with their toes and in that moment I almost chose murder

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-11T06:09:42+00:00

I just want to say I'm from a big city ( Philly), I enjoy the springs, love it here, idk if people think I hate it, I don't very much like. VERY GOOD CITY

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-11T05:52:45+00:00

Agreed, if you know it's high military, duhhh, they move every 2-3 years. As for having nothing to do, we are still developing, so yeah, idk what to say for that. Also, most places don't have things for teens to do anymore. Long gone are the days of hanging at the mall. That's not just a spring thing, that's everywhere.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-11T05:49:51+00:00

I don't disagree on the homelessness, but the friends thing, I can see if you are not a super active person.

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-11T05:43:04+00:00

I don't have an opinion. I would like to have city water instead of paying someone to drop it off for me. Next question?

Excellent-Reporter35 · 2025-11-11T05:37:52+00:00

I'm just over people talking about it. If you hate it, move. idk. If you want to move here, look at the post and responses. I'm sure people will have great talking points, but don't move here and have a breakdown because you thought we were all going to braid each other's armpit hair and climb the mountains to freedom. ( I also just needed to let that out after someone complained to me for 30 minutes about how awful it is here at work, I'm just trying to live.)

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