by Ben Moffett | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Growing up in suburban Maryland, our lilac bush would bloom every spring, and my mom would take us outside to smell it,or cut the blooms and place them in a vase on the kitchen table. Scents and scenes from our childhood embed themselves deep in our brains and...
by Ben Moffett | Mar 19, 2020 | Cancer Massage
I was asked to go to the side of the Infusion center where the patients with blood cancers (as opposed to solid tumor cancers) were treated. One of the long-time patients, who, for the sake of simplicity I’ll call Sam, was receiving his monthly treatment for multiple...
by Ben Moffett | Mar 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
In February, I travelled to Portland to learn more about massage in the Infusion Center at Oregon Health Sciences University, one of the first places to provide massage for people living with Cancer. Each night we were asked to write a reflection from our work that...
by Ben Moffett | Mar 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Joylynn has been providing massages since 2001 and relocated to Greenville just a few years ago. She became an Oncology Massage Therapist in 2016, training with Healwell in northern Virginia. She first thought about finding a way to help people with a history of...
by Ben Moffett | Jan 28, 2020 | Music is Good Medicine, Uncategorized
During her last years, North Carolina Piedmont-style blues guitarist Etta Baker wasn’t able to play her beloved guitar much, and her banjo spent most of the time under her bed. She might spend a little time on the keyboard, and then would have to rest. It was during...
by Ben Moffett | May 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
This business is for you—the person with a history of cancer; the caregiver of someone with a history of cancer, and the massage therapist trained in oncology massage. It is designed to link those who need or even just want a massage with those who are trained with...
