Learning to touch your toes can increase your flexibility. Tips to learn how include stretching, foam rolling, and engaging in resistance training such as squats. Learn about some common stretches ...

Touch deprivation is a real problem. Here’s how to navigate it and protect your mental health. Touch starvation, also known as touch deprivation or “skin hunger,” refers to experiencing a chronic lack ...

Ready to Tell Someone You Love ’Em? Here’s How “The love languages are a great model for understanding what your partner needs and how to express your love for them,” says relationship coach and ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering leadership, personal development and performance through the lens of sports. Follow Peak here. A few months ago, a reporter ...

Tampa (BLOOM) – When it comes to human relationships, intimacy is a key component that fosters deeper connections and emotional bonds. Physical touch, in particular, plays an important role in ...

Through a large-scale analysis, researchers have uncovered the ways in which consensual touch can benefit a person's physical and mental wellbeing. Through a large-scale analysis, researchers at the ...

Touch starvation refers to the longing for touch or physical contact from other living beings. Deprivation of physical touch may result in people experiencing negative sensations, such as feelings of ...

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Anu, a 23-year-old student in Arizona, shies away from kisses on the cheek. “When I hug my partner, I angle my face away so it doesn’t touch his,” says Aileen, a 36-year-old trust officer in Minnesota ...