Christine Skinner:  

After college, I became a Certified Nurse Aide. I loved working with the elderly but wanted to get into natural healing to help empower & inspire people to take great care of themselves. I studied natural wellness, herbalogy, iridology, reflexology, aromatherapy, spiritual healing, natural childbirth, you name it. Then in 2004 I learned the Raindrop Technique at a seminar. I was hooked! That's when I knew massage therapy would be part of my future. A few months later, an opportunity to attend massage school suddenly opened up, and even though it looked impossible for me to go at that time, I took the leap. Somehow, miraculously, it worked out. I'm so happy to find work I love, helping people! Massage therapy is definitely my calling and it fills my soul with joy to be of real service to people who are stressed out or in pain. Part of school was doing 110 massages, and by the time I graduated & passed my boards, I had built a clientele near the school, 2 hours from my home. I started looking for land and after a year of fruitless searching, found a gorgeous piece of undeveloped land and bought it. I took a huge leap of faith in March '08 and moved with my 3 children into a 8' x 31' camper while I designed and built myself a house (for the record, living in 200-sq.ft. with 3 children was an absolute nightmare--I don't recommend it! But it got us where we wanted to be so was worth it to us.) On Sept. 1, 2008, I started building my house. Already nights were getting chilly, so I built every day when I wasn't at work. I had to get my kids into shelter before winter! The kids helped most days, and my semi-estranged husband came to help on weekends. We got the first floor built, and in mid-October, a group of friends came over for a build day. This was so much fun & a dream come true for me. We built all the upstairs walls tha...Expand for more