Trust Your Gut & Lock The Door: Personal Safety for Massage Therapists

Trust Your Gut & Lock The Door

NEW & IMPROVED · 2026 Edition

A practical safety system for solo massage therapists. Not paranoia, a plan.

Start with six quick habits you can put in place before your next client. Then work through seven modules:

• Before you leave home
• Parking and the approach
• Your office space
• Personal safety tools, plus recommended training
• Client vetting
• What to do when something goes wrong
• Digital safety

It ends with a Solo Safe quarterly audit.

What’s new in 2026:

• New slide on what North Carolina law says about pepper spray (G.S. 14-401.6), plus TSA and out-of-state notes
• Corrected specs for both POM pepper sprays and the Sofirn SP35T flashlight
• Exact emergency SOS steps for iPhone and Android
• A “what to write down” incident documentation checklist
• Updated Gracie Women Empowered® details and Triangle-area training options
• Corrected NC Board contact and emergency quick-reference table
• Redesigned slides: larger, easier-to-read text, clearer spacing, Canva-ready

Format: 50-slide PowerPoint (Canva-ready). Open on a computer, tablet, or phone.

Created by Julie Barton, MS, LMBT #6489, ATC-Ret., Dynamic Bodywork LLC.



Not NCBTMB-approved CE. This is general safety education, not legal or security advice. Contains Amazon affiliate links.