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104 Boundaries, Consent and Creating Safety with Touch. A Conversation with a Certified Cuddle Therapist with Keeley Shoup
Unapologetically Sensitive
English - February 09, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 173 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement creative enfj infj sensitive artist highlysensitiveperson hsp introvert Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
TITLE
Boundaries, Consent and Creating Safety with Touch. A Conversation with a Certified Cuddle Therapist
GUEST
Keeley Shoup
EPISODE OVERVIEW
We underestimate the healing properties of touch, and the limitations of talk therapy. Keeley talks about the professional training to be a cuddle therapist. She rocks at communication, and setting clear expectations. We talk about awkward situations and how Keeley creates safety for her clients. Keeley provides 2 exercises where we can use touch with ourselves or our partners to stimulate our touch receptors and the release of oxytocin.
HIGHLIGHTS
Exercise for touch with a partner
set a timer for 3 minutes low risk very specific specify where the touch will beExercise for touch if you’re alone
make an appointment with yourself set a timer for a specific amount of time (3-5 minutes) the visual representation of touch stimulates touch receptors, which trick the body into activating mirror neurons find a video on YouTube that shows healthy touchWays to experience self-love:
learn your love language and give yourself gifts in your love language give yourself the gift of time how can you give yourself what you’d like to receive? Read a book Listen to calming musicGUEST
Keeley Shoup is a certified Cuddle Therapist based in Chicago. She is also a certified Cuddle Party facilitator and a boundaries and consent educator.
PODCAST HOST
Patricia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Coach. She knows what it’s like to feel like an outcast, misfit, and truthteller. Learning about the trait of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), helped Patricia rewrite her history with a deeper understanding, appreciation, and a sense of self-compassion. She created the podcast Unapologetically Sensitive to help other HSPs know that they aren’t alone, and that being an HSP has amazing gifts, and some challenges. Patricia works online globally working individually with people, and she teaches Online Courses for HSPs that focus on understanding what it means to be an HSP, self-care, self-compassion, boundaries, perfectionism, mindfulness, communication, and creating a lifestyle that honors us
LINKS
Keeley’s Links
Website—www.chicagocuddletherapy.com
Instagram—www.instagram.com/cuddlekeeley
Tik Tok--@chicagocuddletherapy
Cuddling programs:
Resources on healing touch— https://bettymartin.org/
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
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