The most comforting touch communicates care for the person receiving it – not just the intentions of the person offering it.

The alternative is to retreat into our own world, where we are so absorbed with personal comfort that we can't be bothered to hear the concerns of another person or be inconvenienced to consider ...

the comfort you offer will be that much more effective. THE BASICS Malbois defines empathy as “feeling what another person is feeling,” and although you will never truly know what those ...

Within another year, she moved into a personal care ... played with my hair for the first time in years. I think we were comforting each other. I know we were. She was still in there – trapped ...