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Season 4 • Episode 54

Touch and Connection as Tools for Healing and Better Mental Health with Aaron Johnson episode

Mar 28, 2023
1:17:57

Episode Description

This episode features a discussion about touch and connection as tools for healing, along with innovative ways to address trauma and to identify ways to live in your purpose. My fabulous guest is Aaron Johnson.  He is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch specialist who practices closeness as a way to break down barriers between people.  You need to keep listening because he does so much more than this, including living a sustainable lifestyle.



Questions this episode will answer:

-What is a touch specialist?

-How do you take inspiration from your life to find and create ways to live in your purpose?

-Why relationships matter and how they can assist with moving through grief?

-How do you tackle big goals like ending racism?


Whether you have experienced trauma or racism, or are looking to be an ally, there is something in this discussion for you. Also, Aaron has a unique story that is inspiring when it comes to creatively finding paths to your own healing and to fulfilling big personal missions.  Whether your purpose is simply being a great human or making a big footprint of change on this episode, you’re going to want to listen until the absolute last minute.


Connect with Aaron Johnson:https://www.instagram.com/holistic_resistance/Resources:https://www.holisticresistance.com/https://www.grieftoaction.com/


About Aaron Johnson: Aaron Johnson is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch specialist who practices closeness as a way to break down barriers between people. As co-founder of both Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, Aaron takes the time to hold the stories of black people around homophobia, transphobia, internalized racism, and those that are Chronically UnderTouched.

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