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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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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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What You Don’t Know About Loneliness, But Should
The Epidemic of Loneliness Many of societies’ problems can be traced back to loneliness addiction – substance abuse, eatingdepressionprostitutionthe hook up culturetransactional relationships All of these things, and many more, happen because we all just want to be seen and experience the intimacy of belonging. When we can’t get what we want, we either find
