Substack: Massage Therapy Needs Pigs with Wings

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I spend many of my days lost in thought. It isn’t unusual for me to lose track of a conversation because a stray idea occurred to me. 

Sometimes I get overwhelmed when I read a paper or a book or listen to conversations. It feels like a waterfall of ideas comes crashing down in my head, and my senses fritz as my brain frantically tries to create a cascade of new neural connections in a single moment before the revelations slip away.

The thoughts that consume me are about my intellectual project, and I think it is time to let you in on it.

Here is the question that hijacks my days:

Why does massage therapy– a profession that does profound human-centered work– remain undervalued, misunderstood, and mistreated; both internally and externally?