By design, we are meant to touch and be touched.

There are more ways than ever to breathe, move, diet, meditate and transcend our way into healthful wholeness. In support of these and other approaches, life coaches offer myriad techniques,  typically packaged for clients to read, watch, imitate or listen. One of the most potent tools for change—the power of actual human touch—remains almost entirely missing.  But there is no replacing the felt experience of security in the body, especially when making the toughest changes that matter most.

My own journey back to health and life after loss took more time than I care to admit. The western clinical therapies I’d spent years learning in med school and grad school were candidly least effective (for me). And while unconventional approaches to holistic wellness contributed new and provocative answers, most of these remained locked away in my mind… until I stumbled upon the power of touch in 2020. And touch has since become my key for translating insights into actual life in motion, expanding mindful awareness into embodied solutions. It’s a practice I’m excited to share with others and is underpinned by a couple of basic principles.