Emotional
Intelligence | Stevehein.com Kathleen Keating
I was
inspired to write The Hug Therapy Book because I
understood we need more than pills to heal our
wounded psyches - we also need the touch of love. K. Keating
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I found a Spanish copy of The Hug Therapy Book in a
hostel in Argentina. I liked what it said and did some
research about it and the author, Kathleen Keating. I
found Kathleen's website and liked what I read, so I
decided to start this page on her. She seems like a very
sincere, humble person. This is something she wrote about
herself:
My full name is
Kathleen Keating Schloessinger because Im
married to Fred Schloessinger. He is my partner in
love and life, but I thought I would keep it simple
and stick with just Keating as author for
my books.
I wrote The Hug Therapy Book when I was director of
professional education at a private psychiatric
hospital in California. I was inspired to write it
because I understood we need more than pills to heal
our wounded psyches - we also need the touch of love.
However, if you meet me, you might be surprised to
learn that I'm a conservative hugger
because I respect that many people find physical
touch uncomfortable - especially with casual
acquaintances. There is even a section in the book
called Ethics of Hug Therapy. Still, we can all begin
to break the touch barrier by giving and receiving
lots of warm hugs and tender touching in our families
and with close friends.
As a therapist, it was important to be a
compassionate listener, but I also presented seminars
on: The Power of Touch, The Nature of Love and
Intimacy, The Wounded Healer - For Health Care
Providers, How To Love Child, How To Love a
Teen-Ager, How To Talk To Women - For Men Only and
How To Talk To Men - For Women Only.
I'm still available to give presentations - in
exchange for travel expenses and a generous donation
to my favorite charities! (I have a graduate degree
in clinical psychology and am a registered nurse in
California and Missouri - specialty in psychiatry and
mental health.)
We live on Vancouver Island, BC surrounded by all of
the beauty and serenity of nature. I'm now retired
from my practice as a psychotherapist and enjoy
writing and reading - and hiking the beautiful parks
in Ladysmith and Nanaimo.
Fred and I are dual
citizens of the United States and Canada. Fred moved
to Canada in 1966 as a Conscientious Objector. I came
to Canada in 1985 to marry Fred!
from bykathleenkeating.com/bio.htm
Here is more about her and her
writing:
Hug Therapy Page
Quotes from
Kathleen
Kathleen's Website
S. Hein
Feb 2006
Quotes
Love is empathy
The paradox about love is
that you can feel another's sadness or joy as if it were
your own, but at the same time you feel yourself as a
separate person. Two hearts can beat as one, but they are
still two individual hearts. The steps of embracing and
letting go, of joining and separating is honored again
and again.
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The meaning of my life is
to feel, know, and share the many dimensions of love: the
courage to grow, the vulnerability to give and receive,
to understand with compassion, to use anger
constructively for justice ~ and to always be open to the
delight of play and the deep pleasure of a warm embrace.
~ kks
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I was inspired to write
The Hug Therapy Book because I understood we need more
than pills to heal our wounded psyches - we also need the
touch of love.
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