This happened during the summer of 2015, when I was back at my parents’ house for a week-long vacation. I had literally just left my job at a pretty high stress law firm and had a week of holiday before I started at a smaller family type office firm. My parents had seen what the last two years at my job working 90hr weeks had done to me, so they were doing everything they could to make their son feel better. Literally, it was a bit embarrassing when I showed up at Disneyland in my mid-20s with both of my parents in tow.. but they were having a blast so I couldn’t complain.
Later that week my mom, being the sweetheart she is, had booked me a massage at the country club my parents are members of. I was pretty stoked because my last month at the firm, I was travelling non-stop (mostly D.C.) and had been in more airplane seats than I cared to count. My mom let me know that my massage was with Clara (real name because this is anonymous enough) Clara was our family favorite of the 3 masseuses at the country club – I’d probably had 15 massages at the country club and 14 of them were with Clara. Now I’m not very spiritual, but I did love the reiki healing and aroma therapy aspects she’d introduce in the massages, always got me super relaxed.