The Comfort Cub

The mission of The Comfort Cub is to bring comfort to anyone experiencing a broken heart as a result of a significant loss, trauma, grief, anxiety and in need of emotional or mental health support. The Comfort Cub is a weighted, therapeutic teddy bear, designed and created to help Broken Heart Syndrome, which can be deadly if it’s left untreated. Founded in San Diego, California by Marcella Johnson. Marcella’s infant son George died the same day he was born in 2000. She left the hospital empty handed that day and soon experienced a heart-attack like pain. She also experienced pain in her arms from preparing to hold an infant for nine months and then her body not holding her son in her arms. One day she went to her son George’s gravesite where her father left her a gift. It was a plant in a heavy terracotta pot. She picked it up to take it home and immediately noticed that holding the potted plant made her feel better after picking it up. She liked the weight in her arms, she didn’t realize it but it mimicked carrying around a newborn baby. She noticed her chest/heart pain seems to decrease significantly. Her doctor described the terracotta plant as providing deep touch therapy for her body, which soothed her grieving heart and arm pain. It was releasing serotonin and dopamine, the happy hormones, which in effect helped reduce her heart pain. It was caused by one of the valves in her heart expanding in size due to her intense emotional grieving over losing her baby, Geroge. Years later, that condition was diagnosed as Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, or more commonly known as Broken Heart Syndrome. He explained that the deep touch pressure released chemicals in her brain that soothed her. She decided to find something else slightly weighted to carry with her everywhere. Soon after, the Comfort Cub was born, and now it is a 501(c)3 non-profit. It was Marcella’s goal to never let another mother who lost a child leave a hospital empty handed. The non-profit organization donates thousands of Comfort Cubs to moms who have lost a baby, and anyone who has lost a loved one. They donate to victims of mass shootings, domestic violence, gun violence, the victims of the fires in Maui in 2023, and countless organizations, schools and clinics who need mental health support.

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