Start with Problems, Create Solutions

I get emotional. I get upset. I am human. I have the unique opportunity in the massage business to be rewarded more for emotional expression rather than emotional “calm and control.”

One of the many benefits of massage is emotional release. It, therefore, behooves me to be very honest and open about my emotions in my workplace because it will always help my client be more comfortable with “being themselves” and doing the emoting and releasing that I so desire for them to have.

Here’s a good amount of info on the subject of emotional release and it’s place in the massage world. I enjoyed scanning thru this long text to spot some points that were totally part of what made me go into business for FreEks like me…

“… bartenders, hair dressers and body workers. What do those groups have in common? Their clients share unsolicited details of their personal lives with them. And of the three, body workers engage their clients on a most intimate level, the level of the body. This contact can lead to revelations and often-traumatic secrets and events. The responsibility of the client is that this material must be handled in such a way that does not compound the patient’s pain and that we offer a safe environment. “

This is a very good way of saying something I try to explain to people all the time about why I choose to target market as a kink sex-positive friendly business as a massage therapist.

It is super important for my clients to be so comfy that they can be free to express that inevitable release of personal info and trauma. So isn’t it perfect that I cater to a crowd that I understand? I live the same odd and edgy and “oh so not normal” and even scandalous life that they do. I understand them because I live like them… so the same fears that they might encounter with a “vanilla” LMP are not there when they get a massage with me.

The funny thing is, not all of my clients emote… but they sure are comfy enough to be themselves and many of them give that up to my own ups and downs and my honesty around them.