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It’s Time to Stop Going to Aunt Tricia’s

This article is a companion to this one written by Corey. These articles represent each author's independent perspective, and were written without our usual collaborative input. We are super excited about them. 

Every technical debate in massage therapy is displacement activity.

Every. Single. One.

We argue about measurement systems (clock hours vs. credit hours), terminology (but we call it taxonomy… all fancy-like). Is it bodywork or is it massage? And don’t get me started about how our knickers twist when it comes to credentialing language.

We have online arguments that last longer than some people’s actual training programs.

All of this “activity” allows us to keep evading the fundamental questions: What does this field want to be? And what will we do when we realize that, perhaps, it’s a field that actually contains more than one distinct pathway?

Read the original article here. 

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