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Introducing The Touch Ambassador by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine So, let me tell you about my job.  As The Touch Ambassador, the message that I have to spread far and wide is that WELCOMED, SAFE, PLEASANT touch is a very good thing!  Le ... Read on »
Hugs Save Lives ! by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine I promised you the story of how touch saved the life of a premature baby.  So here we go! Twins Kyrie and Brielle Jackson weighed just 2lb each when they were born 12 w ... Read on »
Free Hug Voucher by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine We have a voucher here to help you with number three on the list of 10 ways to make Feb a more affectionate month.  Print, cut out, write a lovely message and distribute!  ... Read on »
Fear getting in the way of touch by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine I came across this article via www.partnersinkindness.org.  As a total vomitphobic and someone who'll change train carriages if I see a very drunk person, it stopped and m ... Read on »
In the Vietnamese press by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine For anyone who reads Vietnamese, there's an article about British Cuddle Parties in one of Vietnam's biggest national papers.  Check it out!!! http://www.tuoitre.com.vn/ti ... Read on »
Bits and pieces in cuddle-land! by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine My friend reported that while sitting on an inter-city train, she overheard the passengers behind her discussing the phenomenon of the Cuddle Party!!  Exciting! The lov ... Read on »
Acceptance by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Three people have had conversations with me in the last day or so based along the same theme: that we've become disconnected from each other in our busy, urban, get-ahead ... Read on »
How Touch Can Help Us Heal (and a plug for my book!) by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Hi!!!  I wanted to share an excerpt from my book.  The book is called "Getting Through To The Other Side" and is a dip in, dip out book with short items related to transce ... Read on »
Huggin' Fever! by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine The computer was having a strange day yesterday!!!  I attempted twice to post about Spring Huggin' Fever and both times my post came out blank - altogether now gggggggrrrr ... Read on »
Cuddle Party's Great Media Weekend! by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine It's been a great weekend for Cuddle Party in the media with the word out to millions more people about the many emotional and psychological benefits of touch! Radio 4' ... Read on »
Healing the wounds of conflict zones through touch by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Touch is the most amazing thing on the planet!!  Today I feel like the touch evangelist as well as the touch ambassador!  As well as connecting us, touch can do wonderf ... Read on »
Monkeys hug to avoid gang violence! by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Last month the science magazine "Nature" published the following article about how monkeys who hug are less aggressive.  Read on ! When British politician David Cameron ... Read on »
Day 3 by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Tomorrow morning will mark the 72 hour period of not having touch on tap.  However, thanks to a visit to the wonderful Japanese hairdressers, I'm feeling anything but emot ... Read on »
Lights, camera! by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine For a while, I've been sitting on some exciting news and now it's confirmed!  The TV show Trisha are doing a show about Cuddle Party.  They'll be flying Marcia (half of th ... Read on »
Human Furniture Part 2 - Reclining by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine   Yes, people make great mattresses and reclining chairs ! And if you wonder how this might work, look at the picture above!  Person A (the heavier person out of th ... Read on »
Human Furniture - part 1 - the chair by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine If you've never tried it, people make great furniture!! I'll be posting some ideas how over the next week (some with accompanying pics ..)  There has been many a quip at a ... Read on »
Cuddle Tourism by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine An overseas visitor to Cuddle Party wrote to me today saying how coming to Cuddle Party in London enhanced his time in a foreign place.  He said:  " How boring is it to se ... Read on »
Sun's Cuddle Party revisited! by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine With Feb 14 bang, smack in the middle of the week, I've not had a real chance yet to talk about our party on Sunday! One of the attendees mentioned how he'd decided to ... Read on »
Feng Shui For More Affectionate Touch by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine HAPPY FEB 14 - sending hearts and big cyberhugs to all !! We have a guest writer for today's blog entry.  Welcome to my friend Jayme Barrett, Feng Shui expert and autho ... Read on »
What To Do If You're Touch-Starved Within A Relationship by Sam .. Patient ExpertComplimentary & Alternative Medicine Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine In keeping with our Valentines theme, we're going to look at getting touch needs met within a relationship.  Here are snippets from an article by emotional intimacy educat ... Read on »