I love and hate the term "wellness".
I love my concept of wellness, which is being balanced enough to make rational decisions and judgements to keep you from going into chronic energy depletion. That to me is being well.
Insurance companies, corporate America, and others have turned the term wellness into a garbage bin definition of what they are trying to sell you. Wellness models, wellness practices, wellness strategies. They sound ok, but there is little meaning or substance behind it unless you are focused on prevention.
And to focus on prevention, you have to get way, way, way ahead of it. I take care of myself as a Type I diabetic so that I can prevent complications that can happen 60 years from the original diagnosis. That's a long time to be preventing, and a long view of wellness.
As a physical therapist, all I was doing was treating the pathology that I felt could have been prevented if I had just gotten my hands on you sooner! Doing straight leg raises and ROM after a stroke was not rewarding enough for me. I wanted my client to never have ever been in that place.
I had to leave traditional medicine and my clinical practice in order to practice true wellness. I had to get the insurance companies out of my way, create a spa environment that clients wanted to be in, and use my skills to keep you away from disability. To keep you doing the things you love at 85 years old, I need to see you at 40 for monthly massages.
My mission and passion is to get you to take care of you, to be balanced, and to not think of wellness services like massage as a luxury. You are worth it.
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