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Massage Therapy Personal Statement

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I myself want to act as a healing intermediary, offering massage clients improved mobility, increased flexibility, and new perspectives, in order to enable clients to be more successful in all aspects of their personal, professional, physical and mental lives. I plan to achieve this career vision by delivering highly customized care featuring innovative approaches to recovery based on knowledge of pain management, human anatomy and nutrition. Implementing one-on-one learning situations (educating and coaching) for clients. Also, harmoniously generating a team of motivated individuals, committed to treating and training clients at all levels. My motivation is because I like taking care of athletes. I’ve experienced the locker room atmosphere as an athlete myself I’ve been injured (many times) and I’ve been dropped from a team (once). I see professional athletes as clients not a celebrity. I understand the pressure of performance and the inability to perform due to injury. Throughout my athletic career I experienced three shoulder injuries. I …show more content…

Also, I have started my own companies, Passiflora Spa and Diamond Sweetness which cater to athletes in both physical well-being and nutrition during the season and post-season. Diamond Sweetness is a partnership with renowned chef Donathan Wallace. I teamed up with him earlier this year to work with the nutrition side of our program. Collectively chef Don and I assess and analyze dietary practices, body composition, and energy balance (intake and expenditure) of athletes in the context of athletic performance. We provide personalized meal and snack plans to promote achieving short-and- long- term goals for athletic performance and good health. More importantly we develop and counsel in hydration protocols and on optimal nutrition for recovery from illness or

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