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01/14/2026

Career Longevity in Massage — A Conversation With Senior Instructors

This conversation features Barbara Ollis, Jim Lumpkins, and Kimberly Carey — our instructors who have spent decades practicing massage, teaching other therapists, and adapting their work so they could stay in the profession.

They joined me during our twice-monthly Career Coaching Call last Monday, and the discussion was candid and grounded in real experience.

They talk openly about:
• reducing physical wear and tear
• moving from improvisation to working with a plan
• the difference between spa work and clinical problem-solving
• why confidence changes how clients respond to you

If you’re starting to think seriously about how long you want to stay in this work — or what would make your career more sustainable — the most useful next step isn’t more content.

It’s a conversation.

I offer a free Massage Career Blueprint Call where we talk through your situation and map out a realistic path forward.

Book your Blueprint Call here: https://masterclass.therapyedu.net/bookacall

All The Best!
Sam Small, Director, Health Matters Seminars

01/13/2026

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01/12/2026

Five states have already ratified the interstate compact; only two more are needed.

Why, at this late date, is the AMTA advocating changing the compact requiring all five states to re-approve it, when the same change that they want could be done in the rules without revising the actual law? It makes absolutely no sense.

And they are doing this without a valid survey of their members! Something's not right here.

01/12/2026

01/09/2026

🧠 Fibromyalgia is often spoken about like a muscle, fascia and joint problem. The newest large genetics work points in a different direction, the nervous system.

🔬 When researchers looked at genetic risk across millions of people, the strongest signals were linked to brain related biology, not to patterns you would expect from inflamed tissues.

📍 The practical meaning is simple. Fibromyalgia is more likely driven by sensitised circuits and adaptive regulation, rather than local tissue damage that hands can “fix”.

🤲 For manual therapy, that changes the aim. Touch can still be valuable, not as a tissue correction, but as a way to support safety, comfort, and symptom management.

🧩 The bigger clinical wins usually sit outside the technique, pacing, sleep, stress load, gentle strength and aerobic progress, and language that reduces threat rather than reinforcing a fragile body story.

⚠️ Keep your claims tight. Genetics supports a nervous system dominant framework, but it does not mean symptoms are imagined, and it does not make manual therapy a cure.

Read the earth.com article here - https://www.earth.com/news/fibromyalgia-pain-scientists-may-have-finally-solved-the-mystery/

01/08/2026

12/20/2025

Free community to grow your confidence, credibility, career success, and longevity. A mentored pathway to Medical Massage Certification.

12/19/2025

Experience matters—especially when it comes to your hands, your body, and your career.

David Morin has been teaching clothes-on clinical massage since 2001. Not theory. Not trends. Real-world methods shaped by a lifetime of research and clinical practice, refined through decades of teaching working therapists.

Students don’t just learn techniques—they learn how to think clinically, work efficiently, and get results without burning out.

If you’re ready to move beyond relaxation massage and build real clinical confidence, this training was built for you.

For now, you can experience this approach inside our new online Skool course—free, while access is open.

Step inside the teaching, ask questions, and see how clinical massage is meant to be learned.

Join the Skool course while access is still free.

https://www.skool.com/medical-massage-mastery-8275/about

12/15/2025

https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-interstate-massage-compact-impact-stop-harmful-revisions

Protect the Interstate Massage Compact (IMpact) — Stop Harmful Revisions

12/12/2025

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