KBC Oncology Massage

06/04/2022

I am currently studying nutrition to expand my services and I am not able to accept new clients at this time. It is my hope that by combining bodywork and healthy nutrition together we can produce more supportive outcomes.

06/06/2020

KBC Massage is currently not accepting new clients. Please see the website for s4om for other providers in your area. Thank you. 🙏

05/18/2020

Given the current COVID-19 environment, and the laws regarding my licensing, I am not currently providing oncology massage services.

11/21/2017

KBC Oncology Massage is not available for services at this time. For a number of reasons both professional and personal I am stepping away from my practice until further notice.
During this season of gratitude I am powerfully aware of the many gifts my patients have given me. Most significantly I am forever grateful that I have been gifted the opportunity to share in their cancer experience and their life experience. I have been humbled, I have learned, and my heart has been touched in ways so deep there are no words. My wish is that as we all work together we can find the answers that lead to everlasting cures and the secrets to avoid this life altering dis-ease.
I wish each of you joy and love in abundance. ❤️
Karen

08/01/2017

Another day at work. With the great people, soothing music and temp controls it's no wonder I love my job. Now if I could just figure out to make my job unnecessary. 🙏

07/25/2017

Have a great start to your week!

11/11/2016

It's been a long time since I've posted here. The ties that pull have been so strong from other directions. After an absence from my work traveling in Europe, I have returned with so many questions about my path. I love when my hands and my heart connect with another. I relish the moments when the comfort of touch is felt as peace coming into another's body. I believe in this work when it's primary result is relief for another. The struggle lies in how separated complimentary methods of care remain in our western medical practices. The difficulties posed to patients to receive this care they so desperately seek can be unnecessarily daunting, and I find no justice in that. I am caught in a web of barriers to providing oncology massage more accessibly. So for now, I will continue to be available and work toward change.

05/22/2016

The more we know, the closer we get to understanding...the closer we get to finding the answers to survival.

Scientists say they now have a near-perfect picture of the genetic events that cause breast cancer, which they hope will unlock new ways of treating the disease.

04/20/2016

in honor of my sister-in-law Molly, who I miss every day and inspires me every time I work with cancer, I wish everyone who is experiencing cancer in their lives, a day filled with joy. Every day really is a gift and they can all be special and memorable. If you are suffering throughout the heart of chemo or radiation, working to regain your energy, providing love and support to your partner, child, parent, or friend, passing milestones but still on long term chemo, in remission, experiencing metastasized cancer challenges- no matter - make today count! Your life will be happier for it.

04/13/2016

I can say that having someone with you that you trust no matter what, that helps with the chores, and kisses you even when you are nauseous and wearing 3 day old clothes, seems to make a huge difference in my clients. Not sure you would have to be married but it looks like it helps.

It may largely be the emotional support of marriage, rather than any economic advantages, that produces health benefits.

04/11/2016

I've been thinking about a client I had last week who epitomizes so many people I have worked with over the years. She was a single mother to young children, raised them to be responsible adults, and now is suffering with cancer. Many of these women have several things in common.
First, the fact that they have found massage during their treatment or post-treatment is motivated almost entirely by unrelenting pain and/or symptoms that result in lack of sleep, other health problems, and overall hopelessness. They show up because they are grasping for survival.
Second, and it follows, they do not believe they deserve to receive a massage. They do not want anyone to "take care of them." They have always been the ones taking care of others. These are the same people who cannot ask for, or let, their friends help, and insist they are "ok."
Third, they have always gotten up and carried on before, why can't they seem to do it now? Through all of the challenges life has thrown at them, they have triumphed. Now they just feel like failures.
My client said that she couldn't believe how tired she feels, and was frustrated at her lack of strength to do the simplest of tasks. Surgery takes 6 weeks to heal, right? Keep in mind she had a mastectomy only 4 months ago. She has expanders in, waiting for reconstruction. Radiation has not yet been decided. She also has two frozen shoulders.
Cancer surgery and treatment are not the same as other surgeries.
When I tell people that the average recovery time from 'the end of all treatment and reconstruction' is one year, they don't believe me. No one else has told them this. As the year winds on and they measure their own recovery in halting steps, with many slides backwards, they continue to be amazed at their lack of progress.
My advice, especially for single moms - now is your time to rest! To achieve that survival you are so desperately grasping for, now that everyone else has benefited from your gifts, take all the time you need to take care of you. Get massages, take long naps, let your body heal. If friends ask if they can help - say yes. If you have to work, take breaks, sleep when you are off, and don't over-schedule yourself. Your body will feel less pain and less anxiety and it will thank you by recovering sooner and better.