Sense of Community
Seeking Help for Loneliness
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Feeling lonely is a signal to take action.
Feeling lonely is a signal to take action. Discover community resources, social groups, and professional support. Guidance is provided on finding connection through therapy, groups, and local opportunities.
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Sense of Community
Seeking Help for Loneliness
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Feeling lonely is a signal to take action. Discover community resources, social groups, and professional support. Guidance is provided on finding connection through therapy, groups, and local opportunities.
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[piano playing] If you're feeling loneliness, that's a flag.
And so there are things that we can do.
And libraries, community centers, those are great things to do.
If you believe that you can get yourself out of the cycle, then you're much more likely to be able to mobilize and get out of the cycle.
I mean, there are plenty of social groups around and things that we can do.
There's groups at the climbing gym and people who go running and mountain biking groups.
You can go online and find groups that you can connect to.
There's also a significant value in friendships that are built over time and where you have something in common other than just that familial connection.
So it's very important for people to get out and find the things that interest them, that they can go and find others, that they can have those conversations with and build those relationships.
CECILY CORNELIUS WHITE: I'm a therapist, and so therapy would be the obvious recommendation.
Sometimes that is scary though, and sometimes there's a stigma against that.
I think the most important thing is understanding that what you're feeling is a warning sign, but it's an opportunity.
And so if you can interpret it as an opportunity, all of the anxiety that you feel, it's not you being crushed.
It's your body readying itself to make a move, to do something, to mobilize resources so that you can be successful.
The biggest piece of advice that I can give is don't be afraid of negative emotion.
So often, we think that we're supposed to be feeling positive emotions, and so we try to hide negative emotions, not just from other people but from ourselves too.
That's the biggest detriment.
You are entitled to all of your feelings, and that's what makes you human and beautiful and rich and multitextured.
And so the biggest gift that you can give to yourself is to embrace all of the emotions, the negative ones as well.
It's OK to feel not OK.
And if you're feeling loneliness, do not run from it.
Do not hide from it.
Give yourself permission to feel it, and then use it as an opportunity, as a launching pad to feel something else too.
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