touch starved? reaching out for a basic human touch and getting no response?  How does it feel to have trauma that makes you keep touch at a distance yet you long to be hugged?  listen as we wade through the waters of what it's like to be touch starved and not know how to ask for human connection. learn the differences between affection and compassion as we, as a society, have seemed to forgotten human compassion and see a basic hug as affection. North America as a whole as sexualized touch and we touch on the subject of hugs for affection and hugs for compassion.