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Dear Friends:
My name is Edie Weinstein-Moser, MSW, LSW and I am a PA licensed Social Worker who has been in the field since 1985. I have worked in various inpatient, outpatient, nursing home and home based settings with populations ranging from children to geriatric. In the past several years my focus has been co-occurring disorders, life challenging illnesses, trauma and abuse recovery and adjustment to loss and grief. I am also an interfaith minister, energy worker and journalist. One thing that ties these seemingly disparate careers together is that I am also a certified facilitator for a workshop called Cuddle Party www.cuddleparty.com is the website.
Cuddle Party is a 3 1/2 hour workshop for adults that focuses on offering communication, boundary setting and relationship skill sets. Individuals and couples of all ages are welcome. It is not therapy, but rather, education. It does, however have therapeutic value. Participants attend in pajamas, sweats or yoga clothes. They learn to experience safe nurturing touch in a structured setting. In our culture, unfortunately, touch for most people is limited, non-existent, abusive or sexual. Rare is the person who gives and receives an abundance of health sustaining touch on a regular basis. That's where Cuddle Party provides beautiful benefit.
Benefits include: improved communication, deepening intimacy with family and friends, enhanced relationships, new friendships, an opportunity for trauma survivors to learn that touch can be safe and healing, a sense of belonging, elevated self esteem, meeting touch needs in healthy, non-sexual ways and some people have been known to lose weight as a result, since they are now substituting nurturing touch for comfort food. In addition, when people experience healthy touch and a sense of bonding, the chemical oxytocin kicks in. Although the focus for most people is the touch component, those who participate learn what I call 'portable skills' that help them relate better to the world around them.
A growing number of therapists are referring clients to these workshops and I am asking that you do the same. Now, here comes the fun part....in order for you to do so, it would help if you had first hand experience by attending a Cuddle Party workshop. Here is the schedule over the next few months:
Delicious December Cuddle Party
Saturday December 1, 2007 2-5:30 pm
Mt. Laurel, NJ Host: Lisa Balter
December De-Light Cuddle Party!
Sunday December 9, 2007 2-5:30
Doylestown, PA Host: Maria Starr
Fireside Cuddle Party
Saturday December 15, 2007
Woodstock, MD Hosts: Kelly Whitlow and George Kimber
Celebrating the Love Cuddle Party
Saturday February 9, 2008 2-5:30 pm
Columbia, MD Host: Amy Storm
$40 per person, or $30 per person if you register with a friend. When I think about the value of it, we are talking about $8.75- $11.45 per hour for a workshop that teaches invaluable life skills. What a bargain:)
My website is www.liveinjoy.com
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me 215-249-9190 or 215-738-8668 Please share this with your colleagues and friends as well.
Thank you.
Edie
My name is Edie Weinstein-Moser, MSW, LSW and I am a PA licensed Social Worker who has been in the field since 1985. I have worked in various inpatient, outpatient, nursing home and home based settings with populations ranging from children to geriatric. In the past several years my focus has been co-occurring disorders, life challenging illnesses, trauma and abuse recovery and adjustment to loss and grief. I am also an interfaith minister, energy worker and journalist. One thing that ties these seemingly disparate careers together is that I am also a certified facilitator for a workshop called Cuddle Party www.cuddleparty.com is the website.
Cuddle Party is a 3 1/2 hour workshop for adults that focuses on offering communication, boundary setting and relationship skill sets. Individuals and couples of all ages are welcome. It is not therapy, but rather, education. It does, however have therapeutic value. Participants attend in pajamas, sweats or yoga clothes. They learn to experience safe nurturing touch in a structured setting. In our culture, unfortunately, touch for most people is limited, non-existent, abusive or sexual. Rare is the person who gives and receives an abundance of health sustaining touch on a regular basis. That's where Cuddle Party provides beautiful benefit.
Benefits include: improved communication, deepening intimacy with family and friends, enhanced relationships, new friendships, an opportunity for trauma survivors to learn that touch can be safe and healing, a sense of belonging, elevated self esteem, meeting touch needs in healthy, non-sexual ways and some people have been known to lose weight as a result, since they are now substituting nurturing touch for comfort food. In addition, when people experience healthy touch and a sense of bonding, the chemical oxytocin kicks in. Although the focus for most people is the touch component, those who participate learn what I call 'portable skills' that help them relate better to the world around them.
A growing number of therapists are referring clients to these workshops and I am asking that you do the same. Now, here comes the fun part....in order for you to do so, it would help if you had first hand experience by attending a Cuddle Party workshop. Here is the schedule over the next few months:
Delicious December Cuddle Party
Saturday December 1, 2007 2-5:30 pm
Mt. Laurel, NJ Host: Lisa Balter
December De-Light Cuddle Party!
Sunday December 9, 2007 2-5:30
Doylestown, PA Host: Maria Starr
Fireside Cuddle Party
Saturday December 15, 2007
Woodstock, MD Hosts: Kelly Whitlow and George Kimber
Celebrating the Love Cuddle Party
Saturday February 9, 2008 2-5:30 pm
Columbia, MD Host: Amy Storm
$40 per person, or $30 per person if you register with a friend. When I think about the value of it, we are talking about $8.75- $11.45 per hour for a workshop that teaches invaluable life skills. What a bargain:)
My website is www.liveinjoy.com
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me 215-249-9190 or 215-738-8668 Please share this with your colleagues and friends as well.
Thank you.
Edie
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