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#7 - How Touch Shapes Our Relationships
Touch is both essential and complicated.
In this episode, Kelly and Nyssa explore touch as a human need—how it can be both deeply healing and highly charged.
The discussion moves through consent, subjectivity, non-sexual touch, and how cultural conditioning has shaped the way bodies relate to one another.
Drawing from bodywork, psychotherapy, Thai massage, and lived experience, the episode names touch as a form of communication that can support healing, connection, and dialogue.
Main Topics Covered:
Why touch is politicized, sexualized, and often misunderstood, especially in Western culture…
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