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In this edition of their column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Cal warns, "If you’re feeling bored or finding yourself rolling your eyes at “yet another COVID story,” snap out of it. COVID is very much alive, and it is still very much our responsibility as people who care for people to... care for people."

Allissa Haines and Cal Cates dig deep into the work that needs to be done to cultivate an unconditional positive regard for clients.

In this column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Cal explores measuring the value of the practitioner, not the modality.

Diane Matkowski interviews Cal Cates on the Massage Mentor podcast

Cal's column for Massage & Bodywork Magazine tackles the stories we tell about health and explores how to dismantle our assumptions.

Cal Cates joins The Thinking Practitioner to talk about how their work with death and dying brought perspective and presence to their work as a massage therapist; and to living itself.

“Cultural Competency for Massage Therapists” from instructors Cal Cates and Kerry Jordan has been added to ABMP's Education Center.

Follow-up to "The Worst Things (Part 2)." Resources and recommendations to combat the silo-ing and imagined hierarchy within the massage therapy profession.

This week, we consider the issue of silos and what can reasonably be called in-fighting. Massage therapy continues to demonstrate its inability to make space for the range of practitioner that exists within this broad discipline.

Follow-up to "The Worst Things (Part 1)." Resources to support self-exploration and elevation of the practice that's happening right under your own hands.

Healwell’s post regarding the social media response to the Atlanta murders that took place at three spas inspired lots of dialogue. The feedback spanned a variety of themes, but there was one thread we found distressing.

Yesterday morning, nine people were shot in Atlanta at what are being referred to as “massage parlors;” eight of these people were shot fatally. Six of them were Asian women.

As the Education Director for Healwell, I spend a lot of time in gratitude... Today, I want to talk to the students.

Healwell is now a C-TAC member and we’re really looking forward to attending the upcoming annual C-TAC Summit: Improving Lives by Facing Systemic Injustice, October 28-30, 2020.

Feature article in Massage & Bodywork Magazine by Healwell's Cal Cates and Kerry Jordan

Kerry Jordan and Cal Cates join the ABMP podcast to talk about the difference between the validity of a client’s experience and what the therapist knows to be scientifically and mechanically sound.

As many of you know, Healwell recently ended its affiliation with Amazon’s “Smile” program. We have heard from some of you and we are deeply sorry that our message did not land as we intended.

When I began my training in palliative and end-of-life care, I watched peers laugh and roll their eyes about the inevitable question, “How can you do that kind of work?”

Wednesday morning I woke up feeling off, just a little tired. It was easy to think I just didn’t have enough sleep. A few hours later, when I felt achy all over and developed a headache, I started to get worried.

Do you know about C-TAC? Chances are good that you don’t. Most massage therapists probably wouldn’t think twice about C-TAC even if they had heard about them.

Healwell turns 10 this week. It’s an anniversary that is much sadder than I would have envisioned...

In the time since early March, we have been brought face-to-face with two serious diseases. One, COVID-19, is spread through droplets. The other, racism, is spread through ignorance and fear.

Healwell's founder and Executive Director wrote this article for Arlington Magazine's COVID Chronicles.

FSMTB convened a task force a few weeks ago to put their giant-sized brains together to outline some real guidelines for massage therapists practicing in a variety of settings for safe practice during COVID-19.

I have been a massage therapist since 2005. If, in pre-COVID-19 times, you were a massage therapy consumer, thank you.

A guest editorial written for Massage Magazine by Cal Cates

At Healwell, we have gotten a number of questions from therapists all over the US asking if their liability insurance "covers" them in the event that they get COVID-19 or one of their clients gets COVID-19.

It’s hard to hold the hot potato, friends. At Healwell, we expect to continue to do it for a while longer.

ABMP announces Healwell Offering Free Online Back to Practice Course for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers

If another AMTA chapter president calls or emails me for advice and love, I’m going to reach out to National for alimony.

Healwell has been watching our profession divide along the same rancorous political lines as our country. It doesn't have to do that.

Hello, my massage therapist friends. This is so, so hard.

ABMP News announces Healwell's new podcast.

Man, I miss my clients. I hope they miss me. The people I touch are a huge part of my life and even of who I am.

Hello, my dearest fellow humans. This is quite a situation in which we find ourselves, isn’t it?

I am an educated professional. I worked hard to get my license, and I seek out quality continuing education every year...

Feature article for Massage & Bodywork Magazine by Lauren (Cal) Cates and Kerry Jordan

The ABMP blog answers the question, "What is Healwell?" with this short introduction

“Hands are pretty damn good…and? We [massage therapists] need to be more than that for people.”

A bill has been introduced in Maine, HB 0255, “An Act To Define Licensed Massage Therapists as Health Care Practitioners...”

Kerry Jordan was interviewed on the Aging Matters TV show, by host, Cheryl Beversdorf

This month I am embarking on a new and slightly terrifying adventure — I am hosting Healwell’s new webinar series, the Interdisciplinary Clan of Mystery.

Catherine Read sits down with Executive Director Lauren Cates of Healwell on Your Need to Know.

Hospital-based oncology massage sounds like a specific modality that can be easily defined. It's not.

Meet Katherine LaVelle, one of the rock-star members of our Board of Directors!

She looks stunned, mystified. She looks like she has just seen the Statue of Liberty disappear. She looks like she has been touched by magic.

Lauren Cates' feature article in the March-April 2018 issue of Massage & Bodywork Magazine

If “one incident is too many,” then what exactly is 200? That’s my question to Massage Envy...