While massage and somatic bodywork may be the last thing on most parents' minds, touch can be a restorative tool. As parents, we are constantly in a state of giving—not only mentally and emotionally, ...

While touch always involves awareness, it also sometimes involves emotion. For example, picking up a spoon triggers no real emotion, while feeling a gentle caress often does. Now, scientists in the ...

A few parents and I were recently talking about the impact of nurturing touch with our children. Not just out of the blue — it was the subject of the parenting class we were in together. We talked ...