I Need Your Help!

Hugs Heal needs your help right now. The Hugs Heal Shop has been open since 1/17/08 and only one person has made a purchase! If Hugs Heal cannot sell the items in the shop, we will never be able to do the many things that Hugs Heal is capable of doing.
The Hugs Heal Shop includes many low-cost customizable products, baby clothes, tote bags, women's shirts, men's shirts, and pins.

A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go toward expanding Hugs Heal in many ways. It is my hope to start a Hugs Heal Online Community; a social network that will bring people together through hugs and love. I also want to start an in-person club and organize activities like visits to hospitals, passing out sandwiches to the homeless, and protesting Hug Bans in schools. These are just some of the many plans I have for Hugs Heal.

With your help, Hugs Heal has could touch an amazing amount of lives. Please help by purchasing something and passing the word along!

A Sisterly Hug

A Photo of Alicia and her little sister Laura

Shared by Alicia from Oceanside, CA

A Lesson in My New Responsibilities

Today on the Hugs Heal Myspace I received messages from two different people who were both very unhappy with me, for two completely different reasons. Before today, the only messages that I had received about Hugs Heal were very positive; wonderful messages sending hugs and love and thanks for starting Hugs Heal. I had never received anything remotely negative. One of these things was not my fault at all, a simple miscommunication that was extremely unfortunate; as for the other, I was wholly at fault. But both messages have made me understand that I have some very important, very new responsibilities that need to be a priority for me.

The first message told me that a friend of Hugs Heal had sent me a previous message asking me to post a very important bulletin about a young woman who had been kidnapped. Since Hugs Heal has so many friends, it makes sense that this request would have been made to me so that as many people as possible would have access to the information about this young woman. However, I never received message, even though according to Myspace, I had. I'm very sad to say that the body of this young woman has been found, too late. To see the information about this, please follow this link: Denise Lee

The other was from another friend of Hugs Heal saying that she had sent me hugs and messages, and that lately she hadn't been hearing back from me. She said that she didn't think it was right that I was sending out messages about the new Hugs Heal Shop when I wasn't even responding to her messages. This is all true. I've been trying to keep up with responding to messages and comments, sending out birthday wishes, designing logos, trying to bring in money for projects for Hugs Heal along with a profit that will allow me to devote myself to it more completely, running my own separate business, getting ready for school to start up (I'm a returning college student), and everything else in my life. I explained all of this to her and she was very understanding, which I'm thankful for, but it still makes me think.

I started Hugs Heal as a way to express the dear love I feel for hugs and how important I believe they are. I never expected for Hugs Heal to become such a huge part of my life, or that so many people would respond to it with such enthusiasm. But now, Hugs Heal has over 2,300 Myspace friends, people who contribute content to it, who send me messages wanting talk or needing the hugs that they feel they can get just by talking with me. Because of all this, I now have a responsibility to these people that I did not have before.

I am now responsible for spreading news that needs to be spread, sharing hugs that need to be shared, posting pictures and stories that need to be posted, and answering messages that need to be answered.

I had not expected these responsibilities, but now that Hugs Heal is so important, especially to me, I will do my very best to do right by it.

Grand Opening of The Hugs Heal Shop

Hi everybody! I just wanted to let you know about the Grand Opening of The Hugs Heal Shop! Here you can help spread the message that hugs have real healing power by purchasing Shirts, Mugs, Buttons, Magnets, Stickers, Baby Clothes, Hats, and more with Hugs Heal logos on them. Please visit by clicking the image below.

I have many ideas for Hugs Heal; I'd like to expand it into other things and reach more people. You can help with this and spread the message at the same time by making a purchase in The Hugs Heal Shop! Please visit!

Hugs for Heroes

Hugs for Heroes, a group that has been sending valentines to soldiers oversees for a several communities in South Dakota for the last 5 years, will be sending out valentines again this year. Wouldn't it be nice there were more groups around the country that did the same for other communities. Please read the following article for more information, including how you can participate in this great activity. Click Here

A "Hugging Epidemic"

A friend of Hugs Heal wanted to share this wonderful article about a group of students who were inspired by the person who is probably one of the most famous huggers in the world; Juan Mann. Please take a moment to read the article. Maybe you'll be inspired too!

Hugging Epidemic hits UBC

School Club Battles against "Hug Ban" by Organizing "Hug Day"

A friend of Hugs Heal shared this article with me today and I'd like to share it with all of you!

What a wonderful way to respond to Hug Bans in our schools!

By the Non-Existant Hair of My Chinny-Chin-Chin

Goal reached, just in time! Woohoo! 2,000 Myspace friends by Jan 1, 2008! Thanks to everyone who helped by adding Hug Heal and by placing my banner on your site!

And you know what they say: "When one goal is reached, another has to be set." Okay, fine. The saying is actually "When one door closes, somewhere opens a window", but... same difference.

New Goal: 2,500 Myspace Friends by Feb 1. And let's not forget the ongoing secondary goal 10 subscribers to this blog by Jan 15. Help out by subscribing right now!