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Massage anxiety, emotional block

Nina Englander, DC

Lexington, Massachusetts

My massage therapist confided in me that she is afraid to work on men when they are lying face up. She wanted me to coach her about working on the psoas, using my husband as a model.

I said, "How about instead of that, we work on your emotional block with KST?"

Using the OD, I found that age 31 was significant. I asked about all kinds of men in her life: father, brother, uncle - no OD. Then mother - bingo. "Did something happen with your mom when you were 31?" She said, "Oh my God, I just had a flash of a time when my mom gave a massage to my boyfriend, and I was disgusted at how inappropriate she was."

I saw her today and she said she is no longer feeling any anxiety about working on her male clients.

                            

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