This post brings tears of recognition to my eyes...PROFOUND!! It brings back memories of an experiment (and I hate animal experiments) where they gave a tiny monkey two "mothers" one gave him only food, it was made of metal. The other was made of a very soft material. They would periodically SCARE the monkey by crazy sounds and lights, the monkey would always go to the soft mother to 'touch and be touched' when he was scared. The food mother was ignored. I cried and cried when I saw that...

Touch, especially a slow and gentle one says more than words ever could, to me! Just goes to show that empathy is a language that we all can speak. Inclusion, acceptance, closeness, attachment are very high up in the human needs list, we need them to thrive.

I am resteeming this. We don't need to be psychologists or expert listeners to help others heal...it can be so simple, as a gentle touch. Holding space...thank you so much Krnel.