Thing you should know about Healers…

I know that it’s sort of dangerous to make generalizations but I would really like to be heard out on this one. And the other thing… I love to be challenged to “think bigger” to bust beyond the limiting beliefs I have. Hear me out on this one…

So I headed this with “thing you should know about healers” because I want to address a common character trait that seems present in many practitioners of healing professions.

To make a very long and complicated story short… “Healers” have a tendency… to “heal” I know that sounds sort of weird but the thing is… people that have a profession like mine are helping others do their deep and personal healing work.
This sort of thing makes the practitioner of said healing go into their own spaces of private processing.

The advice I often give to my clients is “give yourself some time and space to process what your body has just physically experienced… there will be a mental integration as well as a physical because our thoughts and emotions and lives will shape (literally) our bodies… so things will get “released and it’s good to allow yourself the space to be emotionally upset for no reason at all… it was just in the tissues”

Almost anyone who’s ever had any bodywork knows what I am talking about.

To get to my subject title point… my lot of massage therapists and others notwithstanding have this certain common trait of calling and emailing days, weeks, and even months or never back to those who leave us messages.

We are often called flaky…. And imagine this… most of us are not actively on the web and I have to admit …this typing is really hurting my left brachialis, bicep and anterior deltoid muscles… but that’s beside the point.
Forgive us! Dammit! And practice some bloody patience (and no… this is not directed towards any one specific, nor am I referring to a recent specific event in my life)
We got lots of healing to do! Not only the administration of your healing in session but also our own deep processes. Can you imagine why the average career span of a massage therapist is about 2 years? The troops drop like flies because the massage work just goes deeper and deeper.

It takes some time to go thru our own stuff. To be honest, sometimes it takes some time to process the “stuff” from our clients as well.
Like I said when I began this: I know this seems a generalization. I know this may seem limited in my belief patterns or thinking but I think it’s just compassionate and human to “need some time” to deal with processing and healing deep all the time.

Anyone who’s ever been in any kind of “recovery” from cold to cancer can agree that there is a time… where things go slow and it’s all about the healing.

Just think of that time
And consider
that your massage therapist is feeling something like this
all the time
because it’s part of her job.

Then consider how good she is at call you back in a timely fashion.