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About The Educated Heart
“The many challenges we meet in our lives as healers have never been so well addressed as in . . . this heart-touching and mind-opening book.”
       —Massage Therapy Journal, Fall 2000,
              Review by James Mally, N.D.,
              Director, Healing Arts Institute,
              Roseville, California.

Loved for its usefulness and humor, The Educated Heart has become the classic on professional and ethical boundaries in the manual therapies.

This groundbreaking book was the first book on ethics and boundaries for bodyworkers and massage therapists. First published in November 1999, by Decatur Bainbridge Press,  it went into eight printings before the second edition was
Illustrations by Mari Gayatri Stein are “witty and charming . . . artful little gems.”
—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.
published in 2005 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. It is widely acclaimed and praised as a must-have for both experienced practitioners and students, and is used as a textbook by massage schools across the US and Canada.

Your success as a massage therapist or  bodyworker often depends on whether your clients feel comfortable and safe with you. Many of us haven’t been taught the professional relationship skills that are crucial to our practices. The Educated Heart will help you fine-tune your client relationship skills and either start a new practice out on the right foot or revitalize an existing one.
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Featuring:
n How to keep clients coming back.
n Red flags that show you’re headed for trouble.
n Real life examples of common dilemmas and how to
  solve them.
n Sexual issues: how to protect yourself and your clients.
n Practical ways to avoid burnout.
n Endorsed by experts and massage school directors.

The Second Edition features:
n A brand-new chapter on communicating with client: what to say in common
  difficult situations.
n Great new illustrations of client-practitioner dynamics (transference and
  countertransference) by Mari Gayatri Stein.
n Better organization for both teacher and student.
n Easier to read layout with definitions and important points highlighted.
n More emphasis on how to guard our rights as professionals and gracefully set
  limits with clients.