{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Armed and Ready to Heal","title":"Have You Ever Felt Like the Dumbest Person in the Room?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1062,"description":"Have You Ever Felt Like the Dumbest Person in the Room? What a Creaky Stool in Champaign, Illinois Taught Me About BelongingEpisode SummaryYou stress-shopped the outfit. You booked the flight. You showed up anyway.This is the story of the time Tabitha flew from Portland to Champaign, Illinois — two kids at home, a rental car through tornado country, and a level of imposter syndrome that was, by her own estimation, a thousand out of a hundred — to sit in a room with six massage therapists who all had twenty years on her.And the moment that changed everything wasn't a technique. It wasn't a breakthrough case. It was an instructor looking around a room full of purpose driven professionals and asking who didn't feel like they belonged.Every hand went up.This episode is for every massage therapist who has ever shown up anyway. Who has ever loved their clients more than they feared being humiliated. Who has ever sat on a creaky stool in a strange city and wondered what on earth they were doing there.You were supposed to be there. You just didn't know it yet.In This EpisodeThe moment Tabitha found her mentor — and why it changed the entire trajectory of her careerWhat Precision Neuromuscular Therapy is and why it made her fall in love with massage all over againThe stress-shopping spiral and what it actually cost her walking into that roomTornado pullover signs and other things nobody tells you about the MidwestWhy every hand went up — and what Doug said nextA sunset, a glass of wine, a cello, and the quiet moment everything shiftedWhat it means to belong to a profession that doesn't always get a seat at the medical table — and why it matters anywayQuote From This Episode\"The fear of humiliation was burning through my body. And I showed up anyway. Because I love my clients. And that has always been bigger than the fear.\"Resources MentionedDoug Nelson — Precision Neuromuscular Therapy: pnmt.orgForm and Function seminar — Doug NelsonBarral Institute — neuromeningeal...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_Af0WitV1lLif8ON_OcJq8wznoSWdq_5E6-zg3S0Occ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MDQ4/ZDZmN2Y3ZGI1ZjFh/NzU0N2YxMTFiOTRh/MDhkYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}