If These Hands Could Talk: The Girl Who Touched the World

by Mandy Urena

Overview

If These Hands Could Talk: The Girl who Touched the World is an uplifting memoir that reads like a novel, told with humor, heart, and soul. British-born massage therapist Mandy Urena educates and entertains in a narrative embroidered on a global tapestry that spans two decades and four continents as she shares her unique career and travel adventures. Hilarious chapters like Teaching the Art of Massage with Play-Doh are contrasted with moving personal anecdotes of end-of-life massages in Reflexology and Daddy's Feet and Humbled: Massaging People with Cancer. Curl up with a cup of tea and get ready to laugh, cry, and be inspired.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165658662
Publisher:	IQ Media Press
Publication date:	11/16/2021
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	835 KB

About the Author

Mandy Urena was born in Coventry, England. She is an Air Force wife of 27 years and after training in London, Tokyo and New York, began her massage career as “masseuse to the troops” on military bases in Germany, Spain and Guam. Over a period of almost 3 decades, she has built an international following including some of the biggest celebrities in the world and people going through cancer. She also worked as an instructor in Philadelphia, teaching a new generation of therapists.  If these Hands Could Talk is her debut memoir and writing about her passion for massage is a dream come true. 

As a world traveler, she has gallivanted through 64 countries and is now settled in Miami Beach, Florida with her husband and their Great Pyrenees, Abraham.

Editorial Reviews

"In this, her debut memoir, Urena invites us into her world of massage and on her journey of self-discovery and personal growth. It is a story penned with passion-raw, entertaining, and touching in every way." -LORI OLIVER-TIERNEY, AUTHOR of TRUDGE: A MIDLIFE CRISIS on the JOHN MUIR TRAIL

"When I first heard Mandy Urena read from If These Hands Could Talk, I was hooked! Her matchless combination of heartfelt human compassion, true grit, and delicious British humor evoked so many emotions. I laughed out loud, I welled up with tears and was deeply touched so many times by her story. What an inspiration!" -DAVID W. REED, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR of UPHILL AND INTO THE WIND

"Funny and at times poignant, IF THESE HANDS COULD TALK: THE GIRL WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD is an intriguing look at the people behind the hands that massage our aches away, as told by witty newcomer Urena." -MIKEL WILSON, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR of MURDER ON THE LAKE OF FIRE; DEATH OPENS A WINDOW and A LIGHT TO KILL BY

"In this poignant and engaging memoir, Mandy Urena's sense of humor and heart shine. Through questioning and self-doubt, Mandy discovered that her passion for connection was not only a career but a calling - the best of both worlds in my estimation." -CLAUDIA WHITSITT, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of KIDS LIKE YOU SERIES and BLACK ICE: LOVE and LOSS SERIES

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