I'm so glad you and T hugged and it felt so healing for you! It's nice that it was a mutual decision that it was so nice, too!

Weird, but T and I hugged last session for the first time but I didn't feel anything. I was holding back in the session, I think, since all my feelings came out after she left. But, I know that healing feeling--that sounds like a good song title: "I've got that healing feeling" because I felt it when I first held hands with my T. I think it was that core level you're talking about, hard to explain but you know it when you feel it.