Welcome to Hawthorn Haven
Hello! I’m so glad you made it here.
I’m Shea Leigh (she/they). I’m a surrogate partner and a Cuddlist certified professional cuddler located in the East Bay in Northern California on Muwekma Ohlone land.
Connection is my passion. In today’s world, we can “connect” with more people than we can count, from all across the world, and yet we are the loneliest we’ve been in human history. Part of that is because touch is a basic human need, and you just can’t get that through a screen.
Sometimes the connection we need is difficult to access in our everyday lives. Being queer in a cisheteronormative world, being disabled in an ableist world, going through a breakup, moving far away from your support system — these are just a few of countless reasons why one might be lacking the human connection we so desperately need, and a few of the reasons why one might seek out a touch professional.
If you resonated with any of the above, I would love to hear from you. You deserve the genuine connection you desire.
Meet Shea
I am many things, but above all, I am an open and overflowing heart. I found myself drawn to this work out of a deep love and compassion for my fellow humans. I came to this work after feeling burnt out and unfulfilled in the 9-5 world. You see, I was a sociology major. I’ve always had a strong desire to serve my community. I dreamt of a world that was better than the one I was born into, and I wanted to help make that happen. After I graduated, I got a job that sounded like exactly what I was looking for, on paper. But in practice, the job made me feel like part of the problem instead of part of the solution. I didn’t last long there, and found myself in an entirely different field for a while. But that wasn’t right, either. I wasn’t part of the problem anymore, sure, but I wasn’t helping anyone either. And that’s how I found myself here, doing work that I know genuinely helps others.
