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Hug Therapy: A 21-Day Journey to Embracing Yourself, Your Life, and Everyone Around You
Hug Therapy: A 21-Day Journey to Embracing Yourself, Your Life, and Everyone Around You
Hug Therapy: A 21-Day Journey to Embracing Yourself, Your Life, and Everyone Around You
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Hug Therapy: A 21-Day Journey to Embracing Yourself, Your Life, and Everyone Around You

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The valuable concepts and methods presented in Hug Therapy gives readers increased connectivity in the world. It also provides an opportunity to engage in an online community with a healthy and hugful message providing inspiration and support. The Hug is something everyone can relate to and deeply benefit from at no cost ((minus the cost of the book!)). Unlike many self-help or self-development books Hug Therapy has an interactive program that meets readers where they are and supports them hug by hug on their personal journey. This empowers each reader with user friendly tools to enhance and support their efforts to grow and change. Technology and social media are detached and often toxic. There is ongoing research into the impact is has on our mental health. The Hugging Ambassador, Gary Havel Jr. was the first Hugging Ambassador to successfully complete a 21-day hugging journey on Facebook Live. Much attention is focused on how the internet can be used to isolate and disconnect. However, it can also be used powerfully as a tool to be deeply and meaningfully connected to our family, friends and fellow huggers. This book and movement allows for a unique platform for likeminded thinkers and huggers to connect and be able to support each other and create traction around their individual causes to have more connection in the world. In a world with much division, bullying and name calling Hug Therapy is a platform that can unite leaders in creating powerful positive messages and hugful change. Doctor Stone is real and approachable. Readers will have access to interacting with him and benefit from dealing with their specific issues, questions, or concerns. His focus is on being available and having leaders go on 21-day journeys that inspire the individual and like a Stone being dropped in a pond has many powerful reverberations. The book includes a wide range of tools that the reader has direct access to and support in using most effectively in a way that fits each reader’s specific circumstances and challenges. One of the most powerful tools is the hugging life baseline pre and post-test. This gives the reader a snapshot of their life and what is working or not working. Or possibly not working for them as well as they would like. It allows readers to quickly have clarity about what impacts they want to create and put in motion a plan to create these changes through the power of hugging. It also allows for a follow-up after the 21-day journey to see in what areas they experienced growth and use this to be increasingly successful and generative on future 21-day journeys. https://www.thehugdoctor.com/hugging-life-baseline/ There are concrete exercises that engage readers and allow them to embrace a rich interactive process. This makes it possible for an impact to be made from the first minutes and certainly in the first day readers pick up and embrace the book. Hug Therapy isn’t just inspirational, it’s pragmatic with actionable tools and methods.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMango
Release dateSep 15, 2019
ISBN9781642500714
Hug Therapy: A 21-Day Journey to Embracing Yourself, Your Life, and Everyone Around You
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Dr. Stone Kraushaar

Stone Kraushaar, “The Hug Doctor,” is a firm believer that all people share a profound human connection. The Hug Doctor loves working with people ((in the space of a hug)) for them to focus in on what really matters to them and be more deeply connected with their friends, family and beyond. Drawing on academic and professional experience as a psychologist and a therapeutic coach, a nurturing and supportive family, and a passion for helping people live powerful lives, The Hug Doctor sees relationships through the lens of hugging. To him, a hug, whether real or virtual, is a metaphor for lowering walls and bringing people together. He has devoted his life to developing the skills, tools, and attitudes to become a world-class hugger. A warm and affectionate person, the Hug Doctor is not only comfortable hugging complete strangers he loves nothing more than connecting with groups of people. His focus is on inspiring them about the power of hugging to live a more deeply connected and vital life. He is an expert resource for educating about longer hugs, 21-second hugs, and even coaches people to “get lost in the hug.” He has created a powerful movement based on people going on 21-day hugging journeys about which he is extremely passionate. Prior to launching the 21-day hugging movement, Stone spent eight years as a staff psychologist with the Student Health Services at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Before settling in St. Louis, he worked with children, adolescents, individuals, couples, and families in a group psychological practice. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Denver with his B.S. degree and also earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology at the University of Denver. His doctoral dissertation explored how effectively a heterosexual therapist can provide therapy for male couples. His American Psychological Association (APA)-approved psychology internship was at the UCSB Student Health Services at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He completed his post-doctoral work at Yale student health services. Most recently The Hug Doctor was excited to be invited to speak as a hugging expert at the 32nd annual National Hugging Day event at Agape Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. He was honored as a founding member of The Hug Alliance http://www.thehugalliance.net/ to be a part of bringing together people of over 40 different nationalities and leading them in the world’s largest 21-second hug. The Hug Doctor has also been pleased to be able to present his views on the power of hugging in the United States and Europe. He welcomes the opportunity to speak about the impact of longer hugs, going on 21-day hugging journeys and living in ((the space of a hug)).

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