Are massage or touch therapies beneficial to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease? Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo once said, “To touch is to give life.” Scientists and studies have long found ...

FOLKS WE TALKED TO SAY IT WORKS. >> USE A LITTLE FRANKINCENSE. MINDY: BARBARA JACKSON IS A BREAST-CANCER PATIENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ESTATE JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER. THIS IS PART OF HER ...

People often ask, “Do I need therapy?” Implicit in this question is the idea that a person must be broken or damaged to a large enough degree to justify going to therapy. Not so. Therapy can be a way ...

Body-Positive Therapy NYC is a specialty group psychotherapy practice with a social justice mission. Individuals and families come to us with struggles spanning the full disordered eating spectrum to ...

Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well. Lisbeth continued, “I feel like I’m dying from touch starvation, y’all. I don’t get hugs.