Hi! I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to Chai Beauty. Where I get to share my thoughts, my dreams, my aspirations, my visions for the future. And guess what? You get to be along for this journey. Because we are in this together.
I'm going to be honest; touch is kind of hard for me. Cause I'm not a touchy-feely person. But I had to sit back and think about the feeling of touch. And one of the things I can remember is, in my college days, I was really stressed. Mental health wasn't popular. Um, but I just got overwhelmed and I cried. Like, cried.
And I went to a school that had a chaplain. And I remember crying, feeling overwhelmed, and walking into her, um, her space where she had office hours, not saying a word, continuing to boohoo. And she didn't touch me at first, and she finally said, can I touch you? And I said, yes. While hiccupping, and, and stress, and feeling like my life is over, I'm not equipped to even do the things that I'm doing.
And she hugged me, and for the first time, I got safety from someone outside of my house. So, when I think about touch, I think about not my mom and my dad, but like people that genuinely got to know me, and over time we created space that they would touch me, as in giving a hug, patting me on the knee, saying like it's going to be okay, to just looking at me, and making very good eye contact, and saying, hey.
And so that was important to me in that season because I didn't need words of affirmation. I didn't even need quality time. I needed somebody to touch me and give me comfort in a way I never got comfort before. And as I thought, I thought of touch as comfort. A way to connect.And... To experience something that you can't put in words.
Because if I try to communicate, touch, it's like somebody empathizes and sympathizes with me. And that feeling and that touch resonated so deeply in my soul that I can remember this moment. Five or ten years later, because I was just safe. And as I continue to learn about touch, and how it works, I hope that.
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