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Skin Hunger: What Does It Mean to Be Touch Deprived?
Skin Hunger Humans have a physiological need for touch. And yet there are many things in the modern lifestyle that set us up for skin hunger, such as: We’re heading into year 3 of social distancing.Working from home can mean many people go a whole week without seeing another person.Technology means we spend more living…
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Finding Your Voice
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Create a Chatting Bench to Inspire Connection
I just learned about chatting benches! They are benches with signs on them to invite people to talk with strangers. Chatting benches are found in England, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland, Ukraine, and the United States. Chatting benches are also called talking benches, happy benches, or “happy to chat” benches. What Inspired Chatting Benches? From what…
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Why Addiction Isn’t About Willpower or Character
Why Addiction Isn’t About Willpower or Character The recent studies about addiction are stunning! I have to share. Now, maybe you’ve heard about the “rat park” study that came out in 1978? Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander hypothesized that addiction was an environmental issue, not a psychological one. He set out to prove it by…
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Winter Solstice – A Time For New Beginnings
Winter Solstice – A Time for New Beginnings Happy winter solstice. Today is the longest night of the year. Starting at dawn tomorrow, the days will get longer and longer signaling to all that life renews. Isn’t that a most hopeful sign? What the Winter Solstice Means For many, tonight is the most sacred time…
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Five Easy Changes To Create Connection
Five Easy Changes to Create Connection By far the most common complaint I hear among people in counseling is the lack of connection. Loneliness is epidemic and nobody seems to know how to do anything about it. You see, it’s not about how many friends you have on social media or how often you go…
