
As somebody who does therapeutic massage often for my work, I’ve gotta say that what he was doing to her arm is a range of motion exercise. It is for people who have impaired use of their arm (ex: can’t reach above your head) due to something like a shoulder injury, arthritis, muscle weakness, surgery recovery, contractures from lack of use, or neural problems.
Usually we have a patient complete the
motions on their own if they can, and if the can’t (ex: arm completely paraslysed) then we step in to help move the arm gently through the exercise.
In general this is NOT a relaxing thing, and often can be somewhat painful, as contractures, nerve stuff, and arthritis are painful. ROM exercise help promote mobility and prevent pain from such things getting worse long term.
the MASAGE part comes in before and after ROM (range of motion) exercise, depending on the condition. And really no massage should be actively preformed on the arm while holding it in the are. Arms get really heavy after a while, you can accidentally push joints in the wrong direction while massaging, and also you can’t use both hands for massaging of one hand is needed to just hold up the arm.
BASICALLY THE MASSAGE EXERCISE OUR WIZZARD DUDE DID WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN COMFORTABLE AT ALL... AND ALSO NOT WHAT YOU WOULD DO
FOR SOMEONE WHO HAD JUST REGULAR ACHEY MUSCLES FROM A LONG DAY OF WRITING
he’s still best boy tho

Postpartum depression is a HUGE deal and it doesn’t get enough coverage.
In becoming a mother you loose a lot of the freedom and opportunities that you once had because you need to be there for a child. While motherhood can be beautiful and rewarding, it comes with a lot of sacrifice and this can be a very difficult transition for a new parent, especially a very young one who may have had dreams outside of being a wife and mother that will now go unfullfilled.
In addition to this loss of freedom, many women experience POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION after giving birth, which is like a super bad depression caused by all of the pregnancy hormone changes fucking with your brain. Read up on it! It’s super interesting, but like in a sad human way, and a lot of women’s health stuff like this does not get talked about enough. THANK YOU AUTHOR
Fun fact
There is also postpartum psychosis, which is much rarer (effects about 2 in 10000 women) and leads to sorta schizophrenic/bipolar psychotic episodes in women who before their pregnancy had basically been neurotypical regular janes. It’s absolutely terrifying cuz it might happen to anybody and it can get to moms-drowning-babies-in-the-bathtub levels of bad when untreated. (Family history of bipolar disorder is loosely linked as a risk factor)
Omg I bet the whole downfall of his country was orchestrated by the emperor so that Rael would have to rely on him ( ̄ε(# ̄)Σ
Hell no, please let it not be like that ┗( T﹏T )┛..
I thought he was just a giant baby, who turned out to be possessive(╯°Д °)╯╧╧
┗( T﹏T )┛ my heart is aching