{"id":2250,"date":"2019-12-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.amt.org.au\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T23:24:38","slug":"amt-chairperson-summer-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.amt.org.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/amt-chairperson-summer-message\/","title":{"rendered":"AMT Chairperson Summer Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By\nMichelle McKerron<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Is\nnow a good time to tell you I hear voices?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nshould have owned up earlier than this, but here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mostly\nI hear my own voice, which I\u2019m led to believe is normal. It tells me things\nlike:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u2018Get up and get the day started\u2019<\/em><\/li><li><em>\u2018Don\u2019t answer that call while you\u2019re eating\u2019<\/em><\/li><li><em>\u2018Don\u2019t waste your time watching this rubbish\u2019<\/em><\/li><li><em>\u2018Where did that time go? Get to work. Quick!\u2019 <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Boring\nstuff, but it keeps me going through each day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nrecognise that I have also trained my inner responses over time. Once upon a\ntime when I saw a jogger giving it their all, I would critique their style, but\nI now simply think \u2018good on you, keep going\u2019. I have trained myself to stop there\nand put all the other useless stuff like gait (or gear) assessment to one side\nbecause that is precious brain space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\na new client comes to the clinic, I try not to listen too closely to the first\nassumptions that pop into my head from simply looking at them (especially if\nthey were that jogger I just saw out for a run). My own voice in my head can be\ntoo full of pre-conceived ideas, too proud, too loving the sound of itself for\nme to do a really thorough assessment. When a client revisits, the game starts\nagain in case we fall into a massage rut of treating the same thing, the same\nway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Michelle4.jpg?resize=258%2C172&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2253\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Michelle4.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Michelle4.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Then\nthere are those people that I have given voice to. As we have moved further\ninto social media relationships, I read comments, articles, emails or blogs\nwritten by others, but as I sit silently at my computer, it is my voice that\nreads it out and gives it sound in my head. I have to be careful in how I then\npass this information on, because that aforementioned pride can sometimes trick\nme into thinking that I came up with some of those statements, or perhaps that\nI am totally on board with that statement because I heard my own inner voice\nsay it. I need to carefully and deliberately consider my evidence before\ngetting involved in those conversations and not just moving with the flow. I\nlook forward to participating in the new AMT reflective model of professional\ndevelopment, as it reminds my brain to take some time to consider such\ninformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Michelle5.jpg?resize=177%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2254\" width=\"177\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Michelle5.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Michelle5.jpg?resize=300%2C404&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Michelle5.jpg?w=336&amp;ssl=1 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nare, of course, some wonderful voices in my head. Friends telling me uplifting\nthings about my work or family or self. But also, the voices of people who are\non the same wavelength as me, so that when we have conversations full of\npositivity and motivating information, I can\u2019t help but replay those\nconversations in my brain for further fulfilment. And one of the categories\nthat falls under this heading would be invigorating work and AMT colleague\nconversations. I am relishing a conversation I had just last week\npost-treatment with a new client, when she told me that she could feel a\ngreater range of motion in a lower neck region that she felt wasn\u2019t responding\nto other modalities \u2013 a success! It motivates me to get back to work the next\nday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nhave pondered long and hard over a conversation with another therapist about\nthe demands of our occupation: mental, emotional, physical. It was a very\nwell-timed, helpful and fruitful conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nI can also hear all those amazing titbits of information I have soaked up at\nAMT conferences or massage seminar days, that in the moment resounded with me\nand that have borne the test of time (and science). For example, beautifully\nsimple techniques, gracious ways of communicating with clients, self-care\nmethods, and words that have restored my faith in this line of work from people\nwho know the industry from inside and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\ntime last year, it was my hope for the AMT membership that we could look back\non 2019 and find something that we have learnt about ourselves or our work. It\nwould be so good to reflect also on which voices we are listening to, which\nvoices we are influenced by, and what we want our own inner voice to be saying,\nto reap the out-workings of a positive mindset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nvoices are you going to be listening to \u2013 or not listening to \u2013 in 2020?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About\nthe Author<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michelle.jpg?resize=150%2C211&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1289\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michelle.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michelle.jpg?resize=300%2C423&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.amt.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Michelle.jpg?w=455&amp;ssl=1 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle McKerron is currently representing AMT members in\nthe role of Chairperson of the Board of Directors. It\u2019s a role she takes\nseriously because, as a Massage Therapist herself, she knows what it\u2019s like to\nbe working in the industry and wants to encourage members to continue the\ntradition that AMT holds in standing up for excellent massage therapy in\nAustralia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which voices do you listen to? 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