Sometimes, a warm embrace or hug is all you need to cope with your life pressures. It’s little but can go a long way.
With stress, anxiety and depression coming up vivid in the lives of most people, an author Nancy Bankole is championing an age-old yet overlooked remedy: the hug.
According to her, a simple daily embrace holds profound power to restore both body and mind.
Bankole, whose new book HUG (Healing, Understanding, Gratitude) launches August 30 via Zoom, says hugs are more than fleeting gestures of affection. “Research shows that hugs are medicine,” she explains.
“Daily hugs can lower stress, strengthen immunity, and even aid faster recovery from illness.”
Drawing from scientific studies, she highlights how hugging triggers the release of oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals.
These neurochemicals, she says, ease pain, reduce anxiety, and lift mood, making the hug a potent antidote to modern struggles such as depression and burnout.
Her book goes beyond research findings to weave in personal stories, biblical reflections, and practical exercises. Each chapter demonstrates how an embrace can ease grief, restore connection, and provide comfort in moments of despair. “The extraordinary emotional, spiritual, and physical power of hugs is often underestimated,” Bankole laments.
She believes that hugs not only soothe heavy hearts but also help people reconnect with one another in an increasingly disconnected society. For Bankole, an embrace can be both a form of therapy and an act of faith, offering hope in times of sorrow and healing in moments of brokenness.
With HUG, Nancy Bankole invites readers to see something as ordinary as an embrace in a new light: not merely as a symbol of affection, but as a daily practice that nurtures resilience, gratitude, and well-being.
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