In my early days of learning Therapeutic Touch, I discovered its brilliance and was in awe at the wisdom of its founders, Dolores Krieger, RN, PhD and her mentor, Dora Kunz. It was at a Practice Group meeting in the middle of offering a healing session that I realized quite suddenly that in this simple act of helping another, I felt better – I … [Read more...]
Is your Caregiving Genuine or Strained?
July 24, 2018 by
Selfless services span a continuum of care. One extreme might see selfless caregiving as genuine, effortless and authentic, a charitable act of unconditional love and compassion-in-action embodied and expressed in spiritual saints epitomized by larger than life figures like Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Jesus. At the other end of this spectrum are … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch Works! For Healing and Wellness in Hospital and Long Term Care Settings Field Research Report, Spring 2018
July 5, 2018 by
The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario’s annual CARE150 Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week May 7 – 13, 2018, provided an opportunity to conduct a modest research project on respondents’ experience of their Therapeutic Touch® sessions. Therapeutic Touch (TT), an evidence-based, complementary, biofield therapy affects body, mind, emotions and … [Read more...]
Inner Wisdom and How to Access It
April 12, 2018 by
Underneath the busyness of our everyday lives and the incessant mental chatter, we are all infinitely wise and inherently intelligent. The greatest difficulty to accessing our inner wisdom is in stilling the mind and getting out of our own way, as learned from personal experience and then witnessed in my clients over the last ten years of coaching … [Read more...]
TT for Tokyo – Japan Welcomes Therapeutic TouchTM
April 13, 2016 by
Mariko Tsunoda, Executive of a long-term care facility, Naomi Ide and Etsuko Makita, Physiotherapists at the same facility, and Mayumi Kobayashi, Supervisor of a Rehabilitation Centre and First Response Operation took the 12 hour flight from Tokyo to Toronto to take Therapeutic Touch Level 1 and Level 2 with Julia von Flotow, TTRT, April 8 – 10, … [Read more...]
THERAPEUTIC TOUCH IS A LIFE SKILL
September 18, 2014 by
Therapeutic TouchTM as a body of knowledge and practice has numerous benefits for both the recipient and the practitioner. Stress is widely recognized as one of the leading causes of illness and accidents in the home and the workplace. There is a direct connection between the demands placed upon one's life and the physical and mental health of the … [Read more...]
Emotions – Our Inner Guidance System!
May 28, 2014 by
Emotions and feelings are perhaps the most intimate and important aspect of our personal communications vocabulary. They are key to self awareness, self- knowledge and our unique personal language. Emotions give rise to what we feel. They help us recognize what we appreciate and learn to understand, know and accept ourselves. Not only is emotional … [Read more...]
Becoming Fearless
May 7, 2014 by
Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Brendan Francis Imagine exploring your interior landscape in much the same way you might explore a new region. What might you encounter? What might you learn about yourself? What might you discover? All it takes is to give yourself … [Read more...]
Getting to Wellness – A Mindful Approach to Cultivating Wellbeing
March 14, 2014 by
You can get stressed by a million different things all of which act as your system’s information up-setters and distorters. Stress is your experience of your body’s fight, flight or freeze response to stressors, whether internal (feelings, perceptions, beliefs), or external (temperature, sound, aggression) and is cause of 80% or more of today’s … [Read more...]
