Stephanie Welch, co-founder of CuddleHeaven.com, is an ancestral health advocate who believes that an evolutionary perspective seeking to mitigate all facets of modern lifestyle mismatch is the key to human flourishing. Since 2010, she has explored commonly held beliefs and taboos that prevent us from attaining our full human potential and has presented on topics as varied as the benefits of walking and running barefoot; the detrimental effects of male circumcision; masculine and feminine interpersonal dynamics in tribal versus modern society; and the importance of energy management for a sustainable future. Her ancestral views are shared at RecivilizedWoman.com.

She will present a poster entitled, “Skin hunger: touch starvation in the era of Covid-19.”