From Womb To World

Touch as the Foundation of Healing

Before we see, before we hear, before we take our first breath: we feel.

Touch is the first sense we develop in the womb, and it remains one of the most powerful tools for connection, regulation, and healing throughout our lives.

We are shaped by contact.

In a world that often asks us to think faster, perform more, or disconnect in order to survive, this truth brings me home again and again:
Touch is not a luxury. It’s a need.

It’s the original language of regulation, connection, and safety. It’s how we soothe a crying child, how we express care without words, how we begin to heal without even knowing how.

Over the past two decades, through my work in osteopathy, movement, and female health, I’ve seen how deeply the absence of touch can affect us. Especially touch that is safe, intentional, and attuned. And I’ve also seen what becomes possible when we reclaim it.

Touch is not just physical. It’s emotional.
It’s energetic.
It holds memory and brings memory back.

When I guide someone through the touch.®, we’re not just working on muscle or fascia — we’re working on the imprint of their lived experience.
We’re touching grief, joy, fear, longing.
We’re inviting the body to feel, not to be fixed, but to be met.

In my own journey, touch was the first sense I had to re-learn. After pain took over my body at a young age, I disconnected to cope. Touch became something I feared or avoided. And yet, it was also the very thing that brought me back. Slowly. Gently. Truthfully.

We live in a culture that often skips the body in the search for healing.
But the body doesn’t forget.
And when we bring presence to it with our own hands or another’s,
something ancient wakes up. Something essential.

So I return to this simple truth, again and again:
Touch was our first sense. And perhaps, it’s the one that will bring us home.