Touch Hunger

Touch hunger: The feeling when the skin craves touch. Just as the stomach craves food and the lungs crave air, the skin needs pleasant touch. This book is about the connection between caressing, cuddling and mental health. How does the biology behind it work? Why is touch such a taboo? What happens when there is a chronic lack of cuddling? And most importantly, what can be done about it? Cuddle therapy is being studied as a solution to some of our civilization's diseases (depression, burnout, loneliness). What does it do, and whom can it help? "Help yourself" is the best motto. That's why in this book you'll find instructions and suggestions for self-cuddling when your skin feels hungry.

Elisa E. Meyer is a cuddle therapist from Leipzig, Germany. She was born in Luxembourg in 1986. She studied German language and literature and philosophy in Freiburg, after which she completed her doctorate in Vienna on the work of Robert Musil and the topic of corporeal identity. As the child of two therapists, she began exploring her own therapeutic path at an early age. She works with Reiki, family constellation, bodywork and recently with biodynamic body therapy after Boyesen. Since 2015 she has been exploring cuddle therapy in theory and practice. In 2018 she founded the company Die Kuschel Kiste or Cuddle Chest in English.