Loneliness
Have you experienced loneliness? Loneliness can occur in many forms.
We have found ourselves in a time when we have been forced to physical distance. For those who live alone, loneliness may have been challenging.
Loneliness can be a state of mind. You can be a room full of people and still feel lonely. Loneliness can also occur when you are alone at home, driving in a car or at work in a cubical or room by yourself.
Being alone with yourself may cause anxiety or fear. Or bring up feelings that have been buried and stay stuck when others are around—the fear of the unknown, those long-held, yet not acknowledged feelings within your body. The word “alone” comes from “all one,” it’s different than lonely.
Being okay with you. At home, inside your body. For when you are okay with you and being with you, having others in your life adds to you.
When you need people around all the time, you miss opportunities to connect to you.
When you are always busy and involved with others, you miss the opportunity to truly connect with your feelings. If you experience fear or cannot seem to connect with yourself, find tools that can support you on this new path. Learn what is best for you to understand that it is safe to just feel.
Being alone allows you to go within and find out who resides there.
“Be courageous, you will find peace and contentment within yourself.”
Maureen Gaetz-Faubert
When you stop and be with you, you will find your true self.
For some being alone in a quiet place gives them an opportunity to recharge, regroup and ground themselves. Others recharge, regroup and ground themselves when they feel the energy of a crowd or other people. They desire the energy of others to keep them safe from themselves.
It’s in those quiet moments that our body and mind can find a place of peace. Where we can meditate, read or soak in a tub. Through journaling, we see the parts of us that we never saw before. We grow, get angry and heal. In your alone time and with a blank piece of paper, shows you ways to support yourself. It gives you the knowledge that you can survive all that you experience and recognize you are safe.
“Go within, and you will find the most amazing things about you!”
Maureen Gaetz-Faubert
Go within find out who resides there. Wake up. Sit. Breathe. Connect to your true self within. Sit with yourself every morning, in quiet, and discover who you are, what you want, and cultivate a beautiful friendship with yourself.
“You are with you all the way to the end, my loves, so “take time” with yourself more often.”
Barbara Schmidt
