You can listen to the complete episode on our new podcast The Rub!To hear the full version of each interview, check out our Patreon!Witness the dawn of a healthcare revolution with Healwell, where the nurturing power of touch meets the rigor of palliative care. Join the Healwell team of Cal Cates, Kerry Jordan, Laura Bryant-Earner,  Rebecca Sturgeon, and Corey Rivera as we reveal the heartfelt aspirations and bold missions driving our nonprofit organization. Together, we dissect the formidable task of integrating palliative massage therapy into mainstream healthcare, advocating for a future where the art of human connection through touch is not just an afterthought, but a fundamental pillar.We're not just hands-on practitioners; we're educators, advocates, and most importantly, agents of change, envisioning a world where the healing touch of massage transcends traditional healthcare boundaries. Through our stories, you'll discover how we're crafting a new narrative for massage therapy—one where passion and professional growth coalesce to shape a brighter, more empathetic future.The episode culminates with a call to join the ranks of those challenging the status quo and fostering a community of growth and camaraderie. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Healwell is a testament to the power of collective action and unyielding dedication to enhancing the human experience. Whether you're a practitioner, a patient, or simply a believer in the transformative potential of compassionate care, your support and participation are the keystones to this healthcare revolution. Thank you for sharing in our journey—a journey toward a more compassionate and inclusive world, one massage at a time.Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Episode description:Cal and Corey talk to Laura Lyster-Mensh, death doula in residence at Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC about making death an open topic of conversation.**********Resources:Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh: Author, podcaster, rabble rouser ​and death doulaLife, Death and Grave Robbery in a Historic Cemetery, PhD Thesis by Rebecca Boggs RobertsWrite your own obituaryDeath Positive Programming at Congressional CemeterySwedish Death CleaningMarie Kondo revealed she's 'kind of given up' on being so tidyDust to Dust: A Guide to Green Burials at Congressional CemeteryThe Landscape of Health Care in Wards 7 and 8About Our Guest: Laura LyJane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Today, Corey is talking with Will Craig, owner of ELDR, a company that provides guidance on approaching end-of-life planning effectively.ELDR's mission statement:"We are on a mission to empower and equip people to conclude life smoothly and be remembered well. When you plan in advance of a health crisis, challenging events go more smoothly later, and your life becomes powerfully informed by the reality of its impermanence now."Show notes:ELDR websiteRespecting Choices websitePeterson Institute for International EconomicsAbout our guest:Will’s life’s work can be summed up with one simple phrase: Propelling people’s growth to produce meaningful new outcomes. Nothing energizes him like helping someone clarify a problem and find their way to solving it.He’s fulfilled this calling on a human-to-human level as a teacher, trainer, coach, and father. At the systems level, he’s served as a president, CFO, strategist, and founder. Will says his greatest strength is as a generalist. “IJane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Assoc. Bodywork & Massage ProfessionalsDiscover why our members expect more and get more with ABMP.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Episode description: Corey talks with Heather Costigan and Cindy Bramble from Project Talk about their research and the power of a game to change the conversation.Guest Links:Published Research:Low Skepticism and Positive Attitudes About Advance Care Planning Among African Americans: a National, Mixed Methods Cohort StudyAssociation of Participation in an End-of-Life Conversation Game With Advance Care Planning Behavior and Perspectives Among African American IndividualsSuccess of a Community-Based Delivery at Recruiting Individuals from Underserved Communities for an Observational Cohort Study of an Advance Care Planning InterventionLinks:Project TalkBecome a PJane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Episode description:Corey talks with Isabella Carr, the Deathfat Doula about the word "fat," death, and dying as a fat person.Links:Deathfat DoulaThe Fat Lip PodcastMaintenance Phase PodcastThe Appalachian Retreat + SpaTwo Whole Cakes: Leslie KinzelNAAFA- National Association to Advance Fat AcceptanceShilo GeorgeFategories: Understanding the Fat Spectrum from Fluffy Kitten PartyGuest bio:Isabella Carr is a writer, theologian, and deathworker specializing in end-of-life care, education, and advocacy for deviant bodies. Isabella is currently a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School and studied under Death Doula LA. Her doula and research focus is a material and theological project called Deathfat: Fat Funerals and Futurities. As a doula, Isabella focuses on providing clear and compassionate care to ensure fat people are able to access the best care possible. Isabella graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in religion and wrJane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Corey talks with Cal about Cal's experience and interest in death and dying, the two classes they facilitate about it, and about their last day teaching Healwell's hospital based massage therapy class during which Corey causes Cal to cry a little, and has already apologized for it.Links:Opening to the Mystery A Year to LiveCheck out this amazing blog post Cal wrote: "Motels, T-shirts and Evil"Guest bio:Cal is one of Healwell’s founders and its Executive Director.Cal speaks around the world on a variety of topics related to integrative medicine, emotional self-care for practitioners and the mechanics and politics of introducing massage therapy into clinical settings.They* have been participating in research, teaching and developing curriculum for massage therapy courses focused on hospital-based practice, oncology massage and end of life care since 2007. Cal is passionate about elevating the profession of massage therapy and also about broader and more seamless integration of massage therapists into mainstream healthcare.*Cal is non-binary and uses the pronouns they, their, and them when being referred to in the third person.Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Corey and Cal talk with Paul Malley, President of Aging with Dignity, about Five Wishes. Five Wishes is a legal advanced care planning program without the legalese.  Cal comes a little late because they had a small snafu involving a lack of available ATMs and a tradesman who only accepted cash.Links: Five WishesAging With DignityThe Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)Paul Malley is president of Aging with Dignity, a position to which he was named in 2002. He previously served as the organization’s communications director since 1998. With nearly 20 years of experience in the field of aging and advance care planning, Paul is a national expert, frequent speaker, and advocate for quality and dignified care at the end of life. He served on the Florida delegation for the White House Conference on Aging, and is a member of the national Coalition to Transform Advanced Care. Paul holds a Master of Arts degree in Communications from Florida State University.Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

It's a new season! This one is a shiny collection of hodge-podge stuff. We start off with Healwell's Education Department (aka, Corey and Rebecca) talking about education stuff. There will be opinions.Thank you to AIHM! Learn more about the AIHM Fellowship by emailing fellowship@aihm.org Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

This week we are re-running one of Cal's favorites from January, 2022. This conversation with Jenn Brandel covers crisis planning, metaphors, and how we support each other in hard times.Find Jenn's books (including a free downloadable PDF of My Crisis Plan)About Our Guest: Jenn Brandel is a licensed clinical social worker in Boston with over twenty years of experience working as a psychotherapist, trainer, supervisor and consultant. Her work centers around the use of mindfulness and humor to promote compassionate practices, healing and connection. She has been recognized as a leader in her field - making numerous media appearances and speaking at conferences and professional venues throughout New England. She is the author of My Crisis Plan: What I Need to Get Through the Darkness and When Rabbits Spill Their Tea: Metaphors to Guide Us Through Difficult Times. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

"Life is a sexually transmitted condition with a 100% mortality rate." Hear Cindy Spence drop wisdom like this on Corey and Cal in this week's episode. Check out Cindy's book hereAbout Our GuestCindy Spence has been a massage therapist since 1999, when her father-in-law’s dying wish for gentle touch inspired her to attend massage school. She has worked extensively with hospice patients in both home and inpatient environments. Her mission is to bring the gift of massage to the bedside for as many people as possible. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Corey and Rebecca sit down with Cynthia Price to get all interoceptive and stuff. Learn more about  MABT here Thank you to AIHM! Learn more about the AIHM Fellowship by emailing fellowship@aihm.org About Our Guest: Cynthia is a Research Professor at the University of Washington, her clinical and research expertise is in the development of body awareness to improve health and well-being. Research studies have focused on the study of MABT for multiple health conditions including Substance Dependency, Pain, PTSD, and HIV (see publications page). Interested in the processes involved in learning mindful body awareness, Cynthia studies qualitative aspects and underlying mechanisms of the MABT approach. She is a co-author of two scales to measure interoceptive awareness: the Scale of Body Connection (SBC) and the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA). Committed to increasing health care access to underserved populations, Cynthia works with local and international programs to provide and improve complementary and integrative health care through her research, teaching, and service. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

We talk about USOLMT's national wage study, leadership, forging new paths and standing your ground. **********You can find USOLMT here Cal mentions this AMAZING BOOK THAT YOU SHOULD READ: “The Person You Mean Be” by Dolly Chugh US Department of Education Gainful Employment Rule:About Our Guests: Stephanie Rodriguez is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of USOLMT and Freelance Massage Therapy Business and Spa Consultant, with a specialty in hiring, compensation and benefits, and employee retention. She helps massage employers improve their career opportunities, helps potential and current massage employees to improve their career options, while also advocating for legislation that helps our industry grow and thrive.Priscilla Fleming is the education director for USOLMT. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Arika Patneaude and Bridget Sumser swing by to talk about their work as anti-oppression decolonizers.**********Show Notes  Elise Ahenkorah (she/her)  “Safe and Brave Spaces Don’t Work (and What You Can Do Instead)”  Dr Autumn Asher BlackDeer Wilson Center: “What Explains the United States’ Dismal Maternal Mortality Rates?”  Luvvie Ajayi Jones’ TED Talk “Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable” About Our Guests: Arika Patneaude is a licensed independent clinical social worker and ethnic minority mental health specialist, who has worked extensively in social services since 1992. The focus of her work includes: adult mental health; homeless housing services; and pediatric medical social work, with a focus on solid organ transplant, grief and bereavement, and pediatric palliative care.  Bridget Sumser is a social worker with the Palliative Care Program for adults. She focuses on the whole person and the family, addressing each patient's social and emotional well-being through counseling, care planning and assistance with navigating the health care system. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

How do the words we use affect the people we serve? What could be problematic about some of the common things we say as care providers? What happens when we listen to our words from a different perspective? Cal and Cathy welcome Anne Kelemen to the podcast to consider the question of languageCheck out Anne Keleman's CE courses:To Chart or Not to ChartThe Power of Our WordsAnne Kelemen's articles:Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by “Comfort Care?”Poor prognostication: hidden meanings in word choicesAssessing the Impact of Serious Illness on Patient Intimacy and Sexuality in Palliative Care Sexuality and Intimacy Needs Within a Hospitalized Palliative Care Population: Results From a Qualitative StudyAbout Our Guest:Anne Kelemen is the Director of Psychosocial/Spiritual Care for the Section of Palliative Care Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

This week Cal and Corey are talking to Su Bibik, massage therapist, educator, go getter and one of our favorite people. She'll tell you what's she's up to a year after she sold her school and and spoiler alert: its not retirement. **********Show NotesABHESCOMTAAbout Our Guest: Business Owner, Educator, Massage Therapist, Scuba Diver, Grandma Su Bibik is Founder & CEO of Institute for Massage Education, previously an aspect of Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts (KCHA). Su and her husband began the Center in 1986 out of their home. It quickly grew to meet the demands for professional, effective massage therapy and alternative modalities. Su’s background teaching math in high school and college naturally led to creating a program to train massage therapists. She has an uncanny ability to convey otherwise difficult information in a fun and meaningful fashion. Most recently she completed her certification training and is a Certified Open Water Scuba Diver and did her first dive trip to Dominica to celebrate her 70th Birthday. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Episode description:Corey and Ruth have a chat about personal biases and changing your mind.Guest’s links:Ruth’s Podcast: “I Have a Client Who”: https://ruthwerner.com/podcast/Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interdisciplinary/id1545446717Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgCheck Healwell’s live and online classes: https://online.healwell.orgSupport the podcast (and get your podcast episodes early and ad-free) on Patreon: https://patreon.com/interdisciplinaryContinue the conversation with us in the Healwell Community: https://community.healwell.orgMerch! Find your Healwell fashion here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/healwellThank you to ABMP for sponsoring this season of Interdisciplinary: https://www.abmp.comThank you to AIHM! Learn more about the AIHM Fellowship by emailing fellowship@aihm.orgJane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Episode description:Corey and Dr Marisa Allison talk about co-ops, community and the possibilities for massage therapy.**********Resources:REI Co-opNap MinistrySustainable Economies Law CenterInternational Co-op AllianceDemocracy at Work InstituteSolidarity EconomicsAorta: Autumn BrownRochelle CapitalCat with Cookies comic by Molly Crabapple Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard About Our Guest: Dr. Marisa Allison graduated with her Ph.D. in Public and Applied Sociology from George Mason University in December 2022. While working on her doctoral degree, Marisa served as the Research Director with the New Faculty Majority Foundation, a grassroots research and advocacy non-profit focused on improving the working conditions for contingent faculty in higher education. With a strong commitment to organic public sociology, action research, and liberatory higher education, Marisa Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

We missed you! Have you missed us? Enough to listen to some thoughts from the bottom of a can? In this episode, Corey takes Rebecca, Kerry, and Cal on a tour through the history of massage in the Western world -- from rubbing to massage therapy, from cutaneous exercise to human potential. (Part 1 of 2.)We appreciate your patience with Cal and Kerry's poor audio quality. The conversation was so good that they called in from their travels just to join in. We're all back at our desks, with headphones, after this 2-episode arc.Abby Cox and others debunking the myths about Victorian corsetry Corey's References:Nicholls, David A., and Julianne Cheek. "Physiotherapy and the shadow of prostitution: The Society of Trained Masseuses and the massage scandals of 1894." Social science & medicine 62.9 (2006): 2336-2348. Benjamin, P. J. (2015). The Emergence of the Massage Therapy Profession in North America: A History in Archetypes. Curties-Overzet Publications. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

This week we continue our Corey-guided tour through the history of massage therapy in the Western world, from the FDA to present day. (Part 2 of 2.)We appreciate your patience with Cal and Kerry's poor audio quality. They're still in a can, but will be out for the rest of this season.Links:Maintenance Phase, featuring Bernarr McFaddenBlack Panthers: Vanguard of the RevolutionCorey's References:Nicholls, David A., and Julianne Cheek. "Physiotherapy and the shadow of prostitution: The Society of Trained Masseuses and the massage scandals of 1894." Social science & medicine 62.9 (2006): 2336-2348. Benjamin, P. J. (2015). The Emergence of the Massage Therapy Profession in North America: A History in Archetypes. Curties-Overzet Publications. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!

Podcast guests -- they're just like us! This week, we sat down with Sara Rennie, massage therapist, massage therapy educator, and thoughtful human. We talked about being a massage therapist, and preparing new massage therapists -- getting all the way real about the challenges.The Accidental Business Owner bookAbout Our Guest: Sara Rennie has been in the healthcare field for over 35 years, and specifically in the massage therapy aspect of healthcare for 20 years. She is both an active, licensed massage therapist and massage educator in the Greater Richmond, Virginia area. Jane App is a clinic management software and EMR that offers flexible scheduling, user-friendly online booking, customizable documentation, a secure payment solution, and more.To learn more about Jane’s full suite of features, head to jane.app/massage to book a 1-on-1 demo. Healwell Homecoming; Sept 20-21, Arlington, VAIn true Healwell fashion, we’re inviting you to join us as we redefine the status quo, lead with kindness, and have fun doing it. Come as you are and come ready to collaborate, celebrate, and learn! Connect or reconnect with people you’ve met over the years through Healwell!Come for the classes and stay for the party! Support the Show.Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgFind bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" Thanks to JaneApp for sponsoring us!