How do I deal with my skill going unseen and unappreciated?

You can read a person's whole story through your hands, where they hold their grief, their strain, their old injuries. It is a deep and rare skill, and it stings that the world treats it as something simple, a nice massage, when you know how much you actually perceive. That resentment makes sense. Some of the finest skills are the quietest ones. The world tends to reward what is loud and visible, and what you do is neither. But the people who leave your table lighter, freer, more themselves, they feel the difference even if they cannot name it. Your work lands whether or not it is understood, and that is its own kind of proof. Still, do not wait for the world to value what you do before you value it yourself. Hold your own clear sense of the skill you have earned. When you stop needing outside recognition to know your worth, the invisibility loses its sting. You know what your hands can read. Let that be enough to stand on.