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PLEASE E-MAIL YOUR LETTERS TO EDITOR@ABMP.COM. INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME AND THE CITY AND STATE IN WHICH YOU RESIDE. UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE UNABLE TO PUBLISH ALL THE LETTERS WE RECEIVE. MASSAGE & BODYWORK STAFF RESERVES THE RIGHT TO EDIT LETTERS FOR LENGTH AND CLARITY. Love the Magazine Thank you for publishing a great massage magazine. I just went through and cataloged all the important articles in my massage publications. And I have to admit after doing this I have realized your magazine is the best out of my three subscriptions. So, just sending a thank-you your way for energizing my passion for my career with every new magazine. MEGHAN DONAHUE ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA Your Legacy I've been practicing massage therapy for more than nine years, primarily with seniors, and I find myself and my practice in a slump. I say I find myself, but it's been happening over time. I've just been too focused on raising my 3-year-old daughter and living life in general to realize that things were slipping. So, I have been spending my unbooked time this week searching for part-time jobs (the administrative stuff I did years ago, only for green companies this time around) and opportunities to be paid for writing. I had some grand notions, but the reality is that the pay for someone of my rather limited skills is discouraging. Also, I don't like administrative work. So I'm back to taking a hard look at what changes I need to make in myself/my practice ... how I can be more fulfilled and how my appointment book can be more full. Frankly, I need and want to diversify my skills, whether that ends up being in massage therapy or in some other direction. (And I have to be honest, if my available appointments were filled, I might not be experiencing this angst.) So, Robert Chute's marketing "I'm back to taking a hard look at what changes I need to make in myself/my practice ... how I can be more fulfilled and how my appointment book can be more full." Jacqueline Teuscher Boulder, Colorado suggestions ("Marketing Your Practice," July/August 2009, page 42) have been great food for thought, and the legacy piece ("An MT's Legacy," September/ October 2009, page 76) has enabled me to look, once again, a little deeper at what I do, and what it is that I love about this work. The money section was especially perfect, as I now feel relieved of the guilt and isolation that I was the only idiot around who couldn't manage my money very well. What I truly love about his writing is his acknowledgement of how things may be and his call to get over it, get your butt in gear, take action, and move forward. Robert, thank you for your gift of writing truths with humor and honesty and freshness. JACQUELINE TEUSCHER BOULDER, COLORADO FROM THE EDITORS We'd like to correct Pamela Miles's quotation on the top left column of page 51 in the September/October 2009 issue ("The Power of Self-Healing"): "What we as reiki practitioners are empowered to do is to create a connection between the client and the very core of his or her being, the source," says Pamela Miles, Reiki Master, integrative health-care consultant, and author of Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide (Tarcher, 2008). "This is what physicists refer to as the unified field and meditators as primordial consciousness—terms that are placeholders for a level of reality that is the absolute foundation of all that is manifest—an all-pervasive consciousness." connect with your colleagues on massageprofessionals.com 13