We are excited to welcome new staff to the PCCHH team! We asked each staff a question to help our clients get to know them a bit better. Read on to see what they had to say.
More about Iva
You've said before that you believe all massage is energy work. Can you expand on that?
We are fantastic conversion machines that turn food into heat and motion, we are storage units of proteins and fats, memory and trauma. There is no difference between the "energy" that a major league baseball pitcher can harness from his connection with the ground, up through his legs, to throw a baseball at 100 mph and the "universal life energy" that suffuses us. It can flow through us or come to a crashing halt on our physical, mental, emotional blocks -- the knots in our backs, the low self-regard and the tears we have swallowed. Once we realize that the experiences of the body, mind and heart are inseparable, we can begin our path to wholeness. We can begin throwing some really fast baseballs.
More about Diane
What has been the most rewarding aspect of being a Massage Therapist for over 20 years?
I LOVE interacting with human beings. After being in the psychiatric, hospitality, and sales career fields, I finally found my niche in massage therapy. It’s both self-rewarding and rewarding for the receivers. I provide clients with the tools they need for health, well being, rehabilitation, and knowing that they are genuinely cared for. I get great satisfaction from each smile, each thank you, and each referral. My mantra is “My purpose on this earth, in this lifetime, is to serve and be served” and being a massage therapist is a perfect fit.
More about Carrie
What is your intention for spreading the impact of PCCHH into the community?
Massage and energy work can be beneficial for most everyone, and I have seen particularly the impact that the therapists here at PCCHH make in the lives of our clients. However, there are still many people that we are not currently reaching. My intention is to reach people and communities that may not be typically drawn to our services or perhaps have not considered the benefits to adding them to their self-care routine. I am excited to help with increasing our social media and outreach efforts, creating new and innovative events that are educational, healing, and accessible, and of course, continuing to build on the welcoming and sacred space that Nikki and the PCCHH team have already created.
What do you mean when you say that massage is a
form of medicine?
Medicine is defined as the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease. Massage is a dynamic medicine, which can address ailments of all kinds at once; physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and more. From a hands-on perspective, it can help to treat and prevent injury by bringing fluidity back into the soft tissue of the body. And it can aid in treatment of conditions that many physicians and specialists have trouble pin pointing. For example, pain from trigger points, sometimes misdiagnosed as bursitis and tendinitis (for which injections and pain killers and physical therapy, etc. are frequently prescribed), could possibly be easily and swiftly alleviated with just a couple of massage sessions with a set of well-trained hands. Anxious or depressive tendencies sometimes have roots in the lack of quality human connection and touch. Old and forgotten physical and/or emotional wounds can be silently revisited, processed, and integrated in a as little as single energy work session. Touch brings our awareness back to our physical experience, and awareness often gives way to change. These are just a few examples of the healing potential of massage. Holistic and aimed at the source, bodywork medicine is profound and effective to those who are open to it.