Dawn Bennett
We need healthy touch to thrive individually and communally, but it’s not simple in a culture where many have suffered from unhealthy touch and the topic of touch itself has become confusing and even taboo.
Having grown up in an era when it was okay to give hugs to teachers and where touch warnings were only about getting into trouble sexually, Dawn Bennett intuitively knew the healing power of touch and pursued a career in massage and the healing arts. After eleven years of serving touch-deprived and -traumatized clients, and building an award-winning practice in a touch-focused industry, Dawn suffered a painful touch incident of her own.
In The Touch Crisis, Dawn shares her personal journey to healing, the startling research she found along the way, and the abundant tools she has collected to give readers a new pathway to personal and collective healing in their families, workplaces, and communities.
By the end of this book, you will have the opportunity to:
- uncover the roots of relationship challenges
- explore conversations around safety
- develop boundaries to honor your wants and needs
- practice healthy communication with loved ones
- increase compassion and trust in your relationships
If you are feeling the awkwardness or pain of polarization in yourself, your relationships, or your community, this book will answer questions you don’t know you have and empower you to catalyze deeper connections with those around you.
We can repair this culture, one relationship at a time.
When the pandemic swept the globe, Americans appeared to drop the polarizing divisions that had driven us apart and rally together to face a challenge our generation had never seen.
We could feel, more than ever, just how precious life is and how much we need each other. But then something happened…
The polarization that characterized our culture returned, as we witnessed racial violence and questionable leadership, while navigating conversations and mandates around masks and vaccinations. Yet this time around, we were facing off with friends and loved ones, not having yet recovered from the collective trauma we had all experienced.
In What Happened to My Friendships? Dawn shares her personal pandemic struggles, research that explores the impact of this traumatic collective experience, and the tools she has collected to give readers a map for personal and collective healing in their families, workplaces, and communities.
By the end of this book, you will have the opportunity to:
- uncover the roots of relationship challenges
- explore conversations around safety
- develop boundaries to honor your wants and needs
- practice healthy communication with loved ones
- increase compassion and trust in your relationships
If you are feeling the awkwardness or pain of polarization in yourself, your relationships, or your community, this book will answer questions you don’t know you have and empower you to catalyze deeper connections with those around you.
We can repair this culture, one relationship at a time.
"When I finally decided to write a book, after years of being prompted, the first thing I did was to search for someone to coach me through the process and help me get my message across well the first time. So many professionals told me "just write it and then send it to me and I'll edit it/send you suggestions to change. If I had followed that advice, I never would have written my book. I never would have opened myself to the experiences that were necessary to finish my growth and healing process.
When I found Amanda through my former business coach, I was desperate for someone to keep me on track, to make sure that my voice was heard clearly, and to ensure I wouldn't write something that was so awful that I'd have to start all over again.
In fact, I am clear that if I hadn't signed up for the dark chocolate program, not only would my book not have been written, but I would not have developed such strong and powerful presentations and curriculum. I would not have gained best-seller status on Amazon, nor would I have found a way to monetize my message in a way that is powerful for others and THEIR healing process.
The process of writing was full of emotion from tears of frustration to tears of joy; from laughter to anger; from playfulness to straight-up stubbornness. Amanda witnessed it all with compassion and understanding, and allowed me the space to move through it so my story could inspire others to change their own lives.
She is worth every penny + more. Her strong and gentle personality helped me become a spark of change so I can help others deepen their connection to self, others, and community."