Send us a textYou can listen to the complete episode on our new podcast The Rub!To hear the full version of each interview, check out our Patreon!Witness the dawn of a healthcare revolution with Healwell, where the nurturing power of touch meets the rigor of palliative care. Join the Healwell team of Cal Cates, Kerry Jordan, Laura Bryant-Earner, Rebecca Sturgeon, and Corey Rivera as we reveal the heartfelt aspirations and bold missions driving our nonprofit organization. Together, we di...

Send us a textThis episode originally aired in April 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast.Cathy and Cal welcome the one and only Ann Blair Kennedy to the podcast this week -- a guest so fancy she only needs initials. (ABK)**********About Our Guest:ANN BLAIR KENNEDY, LMT, BCTMB, DRPHUniversity of South Carolina School of Medicine GreenvilleDr. Kennedy is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in the Department of Biomedical Sci...

Send us a textThis episode originally aired in August 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast.Pam Fitch is back! This time, it's conversational. Cathy, Cal, and Pam tackle the touch question of what to do when your client is expressing uncomfortable opinions.**********About Our Guest:For more than thirty years, Canadian massage therapy educator, writer, researcher and long-time practitioner, Pamela Fitch, has explored professional, ethical and communicative challenges faced by m...

Send us a textThis episode originally aired in April 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast.COVID-19 has affected many industries around the world, Massage Therapy being one of them. Everyone is trying to navigate through this critical time.Join Dr. Donelda Gowan on the Massage Therapy Without Borders podcast to discuss the world of massage therapy after COVID-19 and the opportunities it presents.**********About Our GuestDr. Gowan is the Research Chair of the Board at MTAS and ...

Send us a textThis episode originally aired in October 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast.Cal and Cathy welcome Dawn Hogue to the podcast to talk about human trafficking, how it intersects with massage therapy, and our responsibility as humans and as professionals.**********About Our Guest:Dawn M. Hogue, MA, LMTA graduate of the Cayce/Reilly® School of Massage, Dawn has been in the healing arts profession over 20 years. She serves as the Executive Director for COMTA where s...

Send us a textThis episode originally aired in April, 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast.Cal Cates and Cathy Ryan welcome Pam Fitch to discuss the question of essential vs. non-essential, and how massage therapy fits into healthcare, even while we are not practicing.**********About Our Guest:For more than thirty years, Canadian massage therapy educator, writer, researcher and long-time practitioner, Pamela Fitch, has explored professional, ethical and communicative challeng...

Send us a textThis episode originally aired in April 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast.Cal and Cathy talk with the legendary John Balletto.About Our Guest:John Balletto is a licensed massage therapist, author, educator, and mentor in private practice in Rhode Island. He is a past National Vice-President of the American Massage Therapy Association, past President of the Massage Therapy Foundation, and currently holds memberships in the Associated Bodywork and Massage Profes...

Send us a textThis week, Cathy and Cal talk with Gordon MacDonald, Executive Director of the RMTBC, about the return to practice.This episode originally aired in June 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast.**********About Our Guest:Gordon has a long history of working at a senior level within British Columbia’s health care, education and regulatory sectors. Most recently he was Senior Consultant at Health Match BC where he was responsible for collaborating with each of the prov...

Send us a textInterdisciplinary has ended, but our new podcast "The Rub" will begin January 2024!Support the showCheck out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapyGiving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here!Other ways to help and join in: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.org Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for ou...

Send us a textCorey and Cal talk with Paul Malley, President of Aging with Dignity, about Five Wishes. Five Wishes is a legal advanced care planning program without the legalese. Cal comes a little late because they had a small snafu involving a lack of available ATMs and a tradesman who only accepted cash.Links: Five WishesAging With DignityThe Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)Paul Malley is president of Aging with Dignity, a position to which he was named in 2002. He previo...

Send us a textCorey talks with Cal about Cal's experience and interest in death and dying, the two classes they facilitate about it, and about their last day teaching Healwell's hospital based massage therapy class during which Corey causes Cal to cry a little, and has already apologized for it.Links:Opening to the Mystery A Year to LiveCheck out this amazing blog post Cal wrote: "Motels, T-shirts and Evil"Guest bio:Cal is one of Healwell’s founders and its Executive Director.Cal speaks aroun...

Send us a textEpisode description:Corey talks with Isabella Carr, the Deathfat Doula about the word "fat," death, and dying as a fat person.Links:Deathfat DoulaThe Fat Lip PodcastMaintenance Phase PodcastThe Appalachian Retreat + SpaTwo Whole Cakes: Leslie KinzelNAAFA- National Association to Advance Fat AcceptanceShilo GeorgeFategories: Understanding the Fat Spectrum from Fluffy Kitten PartyGuest bio:Isabella Carr is a writer, theologian, and deathworker specializing in end-of-life care, edu...

Send us a textEpisode description: Corey talks with Heather Costigan and Cindy Bramble from Project Talk about their research and the power of a game to change the conversation.Guest Links:Published Research:Low Skepticism and Positive Attitudes About Advance Care Planning Among African Americans: a National, Mixed Methods Cohort StudyAssociation of Participation in an End-of-Life Conversation Game With Advance Care Planning Behavior and Perspectives Among African American IndividualsSuccess ...

Send us a textToday, Corey is talking with Will Craig, owner of ELDR, a company that provides guidance on approaching end-of-life planning effectively.ELDR's mission statement:"We are on a mission to empower and equip people to conclude life smoothly and be remembered well. When you plan in advance of a health crisis, challenging events go more smoothly later, and your life becomes powerfully informed by the reality of its impermanence now."Show notes:ELDR websiteRespecting Choices websitePet...

Send us a textThis episode originally aired in October 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcastCal and Cathy talk with Meghan Mari and Rachel Fairweather of Jing Advanced Massage Training Schools of Brighton, UK.**********About Our Guests:www.jingmassage.comRachel Fairweather & Meghan Mari are the dynamic co-founders and directors of Jing Advanced Massage Training (www.jingmassage.com), a UK based company providing degree level hands on and online training for all who are pas...

Send us a textEpisode description:Cal and Corey talk to Laura Lyster-Mensh, death doula in residence at Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC about making death an open topic of conversation.**********Resources:Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh: Author, podcaster, rabble rouser ​and death doulaLife, Death and Grave Robbery in a Historic Cemetery, PhD Thesis by Rebecca Boggs RobertsWrite your own obituaryDeath Positive Programming at Congressional CemeterySwedish Death CleaningMarie Kondo revealed ...

Send us a textEpisode description:Corey and Dr Marisa Allison talk about co-ops, community and the possibilities for massage therapy.**********Resources:REI Co-opNap MinistrySustainable Economies Law CenterInternational Co-op AllianceDemocracy at Work InstituteSolidarity EconomicsAorta: Autumn BrownRochelle CapitalCat with Cookies comic by Molly Crabapple Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard About Our Guest: Dr. Marisa Allison graduated with her Ph.D. in Public and Applied Socio...

Send us a textEpisode description:Corey and Ruth have a chat about personal biases and changing your mind.Guest’s links:Ruth’s Podcast: “I Have a Client Who”: https://ruthwerner.com/podcast/Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interdisciplinary/id1545446717Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.orgCheck Healwell’s live and online classes: https://online.healwell.orgSupport the podcast (and get your podcast episodes early and ad-fre...

Send us a textThis week Cal and Corey are talking to Su Bibik, massage therapist, educator, go getter and one of our favorite people. She'll tell you what's she's up to a year after she sold her school and and spoiler alert: its not retirement. **********Show NotesABHESCOMTAAbout Our Guest: Business Owner, Educator, Massage Therapist, Scuba Diver, Grandma Su Bibik is Founder & CEO of Institute for Massage Education, previously an aspect of Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts (KCHA)...

Send us a textHow do the words we use affect the people we serve? What could be problematic about some of the common things we say as care providers? What happens when we listen to our words from a different perspective? Cal and Cathy welcome Anne Kelemen to the podcast to consider the question of languageCheck out Anne Keleman's CE courses:To Chart or Not to ChartThe Power of Our WordsAnne Kelemen's articles:Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by “Comfort Care?”Poor pro...