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Cuddlist Professional Cuddle Therapy
- Madelon Guinazzo
Madelon Guinazzo is an experienced professional in communication, training, and facilitation within the realms of touch therapy and medical education. As the Director of Training at Cuddlist since 2015, Guinazzo developed a comprehensive curriculum for professional cuddlers globally and authored the forward to "The Book of Cuddles." Additionally, Guinazzo serves as the Director of Training at hearme.app and has been a Facilitator for cuddleparty.org since 2009, guiding consent and boundary workshops. An Independent Consultant since 2007, Guinazzo specializes in medical communication coaching, instructing medical residents on best practices for building patient rapport. With a long-standing role as a Practical Instructor at the UIC Clinical Performance Center, Guinazzo equips medical students with essential communication skills. Educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies from Northwestern University and training as a facilitator from Cuddleparty.org and Byron Katie School for The Work.
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Cuddlist Professional Cuddle Therapy
Our society is suffering from chronic social isolation and touch deprivation and, to make matters worse, we have also sexualized touch furthering major societal problems including anxiety, depression, aggression, stress, violent behavior, impulsiveness, low job performance, poor relational skills, and much more leaving our society at a substantialdisadvantage.Sadly, many people in our society come from communities where they were never, or rarely, touched by their parents, family members,friends or only experience touch through sex. However, there’s a better way. Cuddlist is a platform connecting certified, pre-screened professional cuddling practitioners with cuddler's who are looking to better there mental health and livelihood. Cuddling provides mutually beneficial touch that many of us never received in the past or currently do not experience in the present. Much like yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, professional therapeutic touch through cuddling is a safe, affordable healing metric and trans formative when it happens in a respectful and emotionally safe way. The protocols Cuddlist teaches, establishes and preserves these conditions.
