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Author: Dawn Bennett Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 338
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We need touch to thrive individually and communally, but it's not simple in a culture where the topic has become triggering, confusing, and even taboo.Having grown up in an era when it was okay to give hugs to teachers and where touch warnings were only about getting into trouble sexually, Dawn Bennett intuitively knew the healing power of touch and pursued a career in massage and the healing arts. After eleven years of serving touch-deprived and -traumatized clients, and building an award-winning practice in a touch-focused industry, Dawn suffered a painful touch incident of her own. In The Touch Crisis, Dawn shares her personal journey to healing, the startling research she found along the way, and the abundant tools she has collected to give readers a new pathway to personal and collective healing in their families, workplaces, and communities. By the end of this book, you will have the opportunity to: -Uncover the roots of your touch experience and needs -Strategize ways to add healthy touch into your daily life -Develop boundaries to honor your wants and needs and help you heal old touch wounds -Practice consent and communication with loved ones in a playful and positive way -Increase levels of trust, collaboration, and even productivity in your personal and professional relationshipsIf you are craving healthy touch, or looking for "that missing piece" in your attempt to improve relationships and results with your loved ones, peers, or clients, this book will answer questions you don't know you have and empower you to catalyze deeper connections with everyone whose life you touch. "No-Touch" policies are not the answer. Together, we can use the power of touch to heal and change the experience from taboo to transformational.
Author: Dawn Bennett Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 338
Book Description
We need touch to thrive individually and communally, but it's not simple in a culture where the topic has become triggering, confusing, and even taboo.Having grown up in an era when it was okay to give hugs to teachers and where touch warnings were only about getting into trouble sexually, Dawn Bennett intuitively knew the healing power of touch and pursued a career in massage and the healing arts. After eleven years of serving touch-deprived and -traumatized clients, and building an award-winning practice in a touch-focused industry, Dawn suffered a painful touch incident of her own. In The Touch Crisis, Dawn shares her personal journey to healing, the startling research she found along the way, and the abundant tools she has collected to give readers a new pathway to personal and collective healing in their families, workplaces, and communities. By the end of this book, you will have the opportunity to: -Uncover the roots of your touch experience and needs -Strategize ways to add healthy touch into your daily life -Develop boundaries to honor your wants and needs and help you heal old touch wounds -Practice consent and communication with loved ones in a playful and positive way -Increase levels of trust, collaboration, and even productivity in your personal and professional relationshipsIf you are craving healthy touch, or looking for "that missing piece" in your attempt to improve relationships and results with your loved ones, peers, or clients, this book will answer questions you don't know you have and empower you to catalyze deeper connections with everyone whose life you touch. "No-Touch" policies are not the answer. Together, we can use the power of touch to heal and change the experience from taboo to transformational.
Author: Sasha Chanoff Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1626564515 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 185
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Making the Hardest Decisions As a young aid worker, Sasha Chanoff was sent to evacuate a group of refugees from the violence-torn Congo. But when he arrived he discovered a second group. Evacuating them too could endanger the entire mission. But leaving them behind would mean their certain death. All leaders face defining moments, when values are in conflict and decisions impact lives. Why is moral courage the essential factor at such times? How do we access our own rock-bottom values, and how can we take advantage of them to make the best decisions? Through Sasha's own extraordinary story and those of eight other brave leaders from business, government, nongovernment organizations, and the military, this book reveals five principles for confronting crucial decisions and inspires all of us to use our moral core as a lodestar for leadership.
Author: Rachel Aumiller Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110624338 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 281
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What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp. A Touch of Doubt explores the significance of touch for the history of philosophical scepticism as well as for scepticism as an embodied form of subversive political, religious, and artistic practice. Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers contradictions within our knowledge of ourselves and the world. It questions 1) what we can know through touch, 2) what we can know about touch itself, and 3) how our experience of touching the other and ourselves throws us into a state of doubt. This volume is intended for students and scholars who wish to reconsider the experience of touching in intersections of philosophy, religion, art, and social and political practice.
Author: Carey Jewitt Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509556656 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 168
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Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embedded in many technologies, from wearable devices and gaming hardware to tactile robots and future technologies. What would it be like if we could hug or touch digitally across distance? How might this shape our sense of connection? How might we establish trust or protect our privacy and safety? Digital Touch is a timely and original book that addresses such questions. Offering a rich account of digital touch, the book introduces the key issues and debates, as well as the design and ethical challenges raised by digital touch. Using clear, accessible examples and creative scenarios, the book shows how touch – how we touch, as well as what, whom and when we touch – is being profoundly reshaped by our use of technologies. Above all, it highlights the importance of digital touch in our daily lives and how it will impact our relationships and way of life in the future. The first work of its kind, Digital Touch is the go-to book for anyone wanting to get to grips with this crucial emerging topic, especially students and scholars of Digital Media and Communication Studies, Digital Humanities, Sensory Studies, and Science and Technology Studies.
Author: David A. Westbrook Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317254910 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 176
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Former Federal Reserve chair Greenspan recently said that the risk management paradigm is broken; thus our understanding of financial regulation no longer makes sense. More generally, the current financial crisis obliges us to rethink the relationships among "financial markets" and "governments." In Out of Crisis financial analyst David Westbrook illuminates the intellectual, business, and policy errors that have led us into the present morass. Through a vivid legal and political analysis he shows how the ideologies of the right and left have distorted financial thinking and policy. Learning from these errors, the book sketches the emergence of a new understanding of risk management and bureaucratic regulation. Out of Crisis begins the tasks of rethinking the structures that constitute financial markets and exploring how such structures may be strengthened. Taking responsibility for the markets we build to do so much of our society's work, we may yet become mature capitalists.
Author: Michael Easter Publisher: Rodale Books ISBN: 0593138775 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 292
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“If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.
Author: Constance Classen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000325369 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 477
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This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.
Author: Osagie Bill Aigbogun Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1733889515 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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An American plot, ancient European culture and religion, a Nigerian twist and events in major cities across the world, my humble attempt to give a global touch to ?The Touch? A young girl wakes up twice at the dead of night with eerie and chilling screams, in the heart of California. She has had a visitor, a male figure which she claims has a ghost like appearance, her very first ?experience? in many to come. Her parents are disturbed and a solution is sort medically, yet to no avail. The troubled family are advised at psychiatry, and finally their attempt through this route leads to an historian cum archaeologist who proffers a temporary relieve pending a permanent one, thus a quest to lift the fourth instalment of a three thousand-year-old curse is initiated. Amid all the drama, an assassin is on a vendetta and he desires for his path to cross with that of the historian at any cost on the one hand, while on the other some Nigerians in this whole saga are visiting the USA for business and pleasure.
Author: Michelle Drouin Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262046679 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 285
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A behavioral scientist explores love, belongingness, and fulfillment, focusing on how modern technology can both help and hinder our need to connect. A Next Big Idea Club nominee. Millions of people around the world are not getting the physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy they crave. Through the wonders of modern technology, we are connecting with more people more often than ever before, but are these connections what we long for? Pandemic isolation has made us even more alone. In Out of Touch, Professor of Psychology Michelle Drouin investigates what she calls our intimacy famine, exploring love, belongingness, and fulfillment and considering why relationships carried out on technological platforms may leave us starving for physical connection. Drouin puts it this way: when most of our interactions are through social media, we are taking tiny hits of dopamine rather than the huge shots of oxytocin that an intimate in-person relationship would provide. Drouin explains that intimacy is not just sex—although of course sex is an important part of intimacy. But how important? Drouin reports on surveys that millennials (perhaps distracted by constant Tinder-swiping) have less sex than previous generations. She discusses pandemic puppies, professional cuddlers, the importance of touch, “desire discrepancy” in marriage, and the value of friendships. Online dating, she suggests, might give users too many options; and the internet facilitates “infidelity-related behaviors.” Some technological advances will help us develop and maintain intimate relationships—our phones, for example, can be bridges to emotional support. Some, on the other hand, might leave us out of touch. Drouin explores both of these possibilities.
Author: Lia Macko Publisher: Rodale ISBN: 9781579548674 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 316
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A guide for professional women struggling with burnout analyzes the social and psychological factors that affect a woman's career and relationships, and offers strategies for achieving a healthy personal and professional balance.
Author: Dawn Bennett
Author: Dawn Bennett
Author: Sasha Chanoff
Author: Rachel Aumiller
Author: Carey Jewitt
Author: David A. Westbrook
Author: Michael Easter
Author: Constance Classen
Author: Osagie Bill Aigbogun
Author: Michelle Drouin
Author: Lia Macko