Cuddle Therapy

Caregiving changes your body as much as your heart. When you’re caring for a spouse or parent whose memory is fading, you often lose your own source of comfort — the hand that held yours, the presence that made you feel steady. Over time, your nervous system absorbs that loss, even when you don’t have words for it.

Cuddle Therapy is a way to receive what you’ve been giving. Emily is a Certified Cuddlist (CCT) with more than six years of experience providing professional, platonic touch therapy. Every session is consent-based, guided entirely by your comfort level, and grounded in trauma-informed care. Every session follows the Comfort Nest Code of Conduct.

This is about having an hour that’s just for you. It’s about relieving your body of the stress and tension that come from constant concern and worry. This is your time. Let Emily help you feel safe enough to rest — even for an hour.

How can it help caregivers?

Research on touch suggests that safe, caring touch may help:

• Ease the loneliness that caregivers carry silently

• Ease feelings of anxiety and low mood

• Lower stress and help an overtaxed body settle

Comfort Nest services are designed to complement, not replace, professional mental health care, therapy, or medical treatment.