Plans for today (2024)

I have one booked Wednesday afternoon but she's mighty powerful so it's more aargh than ahhhh 😂
Yes, my therapist is a stocky, tall and strong woman who is from South Africa originally and speaks very little English, which is great because she doesn't talk much other than to inquire about pressure, and she understands enough to go deeper or lighter as needed (my last therapist was good but she was a chatterbox and I finally got tired of it). My lower left lumbar and glutes were in bad shape. She did some amazing work and used some cupping techniques and hot stones in addition to her deep tissue work. There were a few aargh moments but nothing I couldn't breathe through, and I feel so much better. I have another appointment with her next Tuesday.

Tomorrow I am getting a dermoplaning facial at another facility not far from home. I was overdue for some self-pampering!
 
Yes, my therapist is a stocky, tall and strong woman who is from South Africa originally and speaks very little English, which is great because she doesn't talk much other than to inquire about pressure, and she understands enough to go deeper or lighter as needed (my last therapist was good but she was a chatterbox and I finally got tired of it). My lower left lumbar and glutes were in bad shape. She did some amazing work and used some cupping techniques and hot stones in addition to her deep tissue work. There were a few aargh moments but nothing I couldn't breathe through, and I feel so much better. I have another appointment with her next Tuesday.

Tomorrow I am getting a dermoplaning facial at another facility not far from home. I was overdue for some self-pampering!
I prefer the sound of yours, mine has quite literally left bruises 😂

She doesn't speak good English and was (to start with) business like, so the first session was nice a quiet.
Then the next time she deigned me worthy of her harrowing life story, including being sold at the age 10 to a buffalo farmer and getting sent back for her mum to sell her again at 13 to brothel in Bangkok, marrying an alcoholic with a secret heroin addiction, running away, being illiterate so unable to find legitimate work and her son then drowning age only 14, when she got swept up with the emotions she stopped completely for 15 minutes and just lent on me, there wasn't a lot I could do about it!

But that is what often happens to me, people share far too much too soon and after that it goes one of two ways, they carry on offloading whenever I see them and I end up as a bucket for their emotions or they feel they've compromised themselves and clam up completely.

I'll be honest, I'm kind of hoping for the latter.
If not then as bad as I feel saying this I'll have to find someone else.
 
I prefer the sound of yours, mine has quite literally left bruises 😂

She doesn't speak good English and was (to start with) business like, so the first session was nice a quiet.
Then the next time she deigned me worthy of her harrowing life story, including being sold at the age 10 to a buffalo farmer and getting sent back for her mum to sell her again at 13 to brothel in Bangkok, marrying an alcoholic with a secret heroin addiction, running away, being illiterate so unable to find legitimate work and her son then drowning age only 14, when she got swept up with the emotions she stopped completely for 15 minutes and just lent on me, there wasn't a lot I could do about it!

But that is what often happens to me, people share far too much too soon and after that it goes one of two ways, they carry on offloading whenever I see them and I end up as a bucket for their emotions or they feel they've compromised themselves and clam up completely.

I'll be honest, I'm kind of hoping for the latter.
If not then as bad as I feel saying this I'll have to find someone else.
I'm a retired massage therapist. It's bad energy to dump on a client during a massage. It's not conducive to healing for the client. Hence why I dumped my chatterbox!

It's important to let your therapist know when they are screwing up. Please be verbal with "ouch, too hard" or "good spot, press harder". But sounds like you need someone new.
 
Do you generally use vegan cheese in your quiches or do you leave that part out?
Leave it out. I don't see the need for cheese in a quiche. This one will be mushroom and onions in garlic. But I think it's a tomorrow job now.
 
I'm a retired massage therapist. It's bad energy to dump on a client during a massage. It's not conducive to healing for the client. Hence why I dumped my chatterbox!

It's important to let your therapist know when they are screwing up. Please be verbal with "ouch, too hard" or "good spot, press harder". But sounds like you need someone new.
I do tell her but I have a high pain threshold and I wanted those knots (lumps) broken down. I was surprised to see bruises though.
Thing is she has made a remarkable amount of progress in just two sessions but yes I may have to find someone else.

I'll try and shut her down first with something like an ear infection.. sorry I can't hear you 😃

Entertainingly at the end of it when I said she should get a writer to do her biography she said that's what some of her other clients had said and that some of them just come to talk because they need counselling 😵‍💫
I stifled a laugh but didn't quite manage to contain a rather large smile.
I thought - they come to you for counselling do they? Are you sure you don't have them here for your own therapy, physician heal thyself 😂
 
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Leave it out. I don't see the need for cheese in a quiche. This one will be mushroom and onions in garlic. But I think it's a tomorrow job now.
I was born in Pinner (outskirts of London for those not from these parts) and my Dad is a Londoner so I read that in a cockney accent “Leave it aaaaout”
I thought ok, I was only asking 😂🤣😂🤣
 
Took the kid to his gym. Fumigated the front hedge with fungicide - there's some nasty black fungus which is killing off all the shefflera (umbrella plants) so time to put a stop to that.
Corrected three essays for TOEFL and GRE.
It's almost beer o´clock:D
 
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