Cat therapy

Cat therapy is REAL — at least, for me it is! 

My host family has an adorable cat, Gaia. 

When I first met them, almost six years ago, they also had Gaia’s brother Helios, and during the Christmas holidays of 2016-2017, I took care of their house and both their cats for a couple weeks. It was the first time I had ever really done cat-sitting and I remember how blissful (and healing) it was. 

And it’s the same now. Gaia has always been very cuddly. Even when Helios was still alive, she was the one who’d always come and lay in my lap and snuggle with me as son as I sat to relax. She did it last summer here, too, even with my whole host family present, and she’s doing it again now. 

It’s amazing how blissful it can be to just sit and relax with a cat in one’s lap, stroking it while it purrs. 

Maybe it’s also this sitting with Gaia purring in my lap that is helping me to sit with my emotions, literally as well as figuratively, with more and more ease?!?