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Good Grief! Massage School Didn’t Prepare Us for This

It was the day a patient walked into my treatment room and told me her husband had died two weeks earlier. My mind raced. My heart raced. And my very first coherent thought was: Massage school did not prepare me for this.

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April 9, 2026

Good Grief! Massage School Didn’t Prepare Us for This

It was the day a patient walked into my treatment room and told me her husband had died two weeks earlier. My mind raced. My heart raced. And my very first coherent thought was: Massage school did not prepare me for this.

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Evidence-based grief education for massage and manual therapists who want to support patients with compassion without stepping outside their professional scope. You’re seeing patients presenting with trauma, and might have  taken courses to become trauma-informed. Now it’s time to take the next step: becoming grief-informed.

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