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Flip the Script on Loneliness
Week Four: Flip the Script on Loneliness
Day Twenty-two
We are never alone. Not in energetic terms. We’ve been trained to only look to other humans for connection. ~Lee Harris
My intention this week is to explore something that all humans experience.
Loneliness.
Feeling empty, isolated, unwanted, unseen, lost.
Life changes or circumstances can create an experience of loneliness. A job change, financial instability, changes in relationships, living arrangements, death of a loved one, a holiday.
Endings with a beginning that is filled with uncertainty and the unknown.
I enter this subject gently, with kindness. Loneliness is complex. For some, it is a lifelong struggle to find connection. It can be a hard thing to admit, talk about or think about. It can be a topic we don’t want to feel or be reminded of a time when we felt lonely.
Types of loneliness
- Emotional loneliness — ‘the absence of meaningful relationships’
- Social loneliness — a ‘perceived deficit in the quality of social connections’
- Existential loneliness — a ‘feeling of fundamental separateness from others and the wider world’
