A Face In The Crowd
Chris Ackerson is one of those people who could be featured on the Fine Living channel for her life-altering career turnabout. Twelve years ago, she was a corporate secretary for a multimillion-dollar accounts receivable company, which apparently was every bit the purgatory it sounds like. “I hated it, so I started my search for what I wanted to be when I grew up,” she says. One day she read an article about the healing power of massage, and that was it. After her training, she opened a business, Heart and Hands, in Franklin, where she specializes in cranial sacral therapy, a gentle form of body work that deals with muscle tissue and helps relieve pain or unlock tension. “Most people fall asleep” during those sessions, Ackerson says. Some clients are there to relax, but many others are in search of a cure for chronic pain. “I’m kind of known as the person people come to when they’ve been everywhere else,” she says. “They don’t know what cranial is, but they’re willing to try anything.”
By Liz Murray Garrigan
Chris Ackerson is one of those people who could be featured on the Fine Living channel for her life-altering career turnabout. Twelve years ago, she was a corporate secretary for a multimillion-dollar accounts receivable company, which apparently was every bit the purgatory it sounds like. “I hated it, so I started my search for what I wanted to be when I grew up,” she says. One day she read an article about the healing power of massage, and that was it. After her training, she opened a business, Heart and Hands, in Franklin, where she specializes in cranial sacral therapy, a gentle form of body work that deals with muscle tissue and helps relieve pain or unlock tension. “Most people fall asleep” during those sessions, Ackerson says. Some clients are there to relax, but many others are in search of a cure for chronic pain. “I’m kind of known as the person people come to when they’ve been everywhere else,” she says. “They don’t know what cranial is, but they’re willing to try anything.”
By Liz Murray Garrigan
