Solo Agers & the Holiday ‘Empty Seat’: 3 Resources to Reduce Loneliness and Strengthen Social Support This Monday
Holiday weekends can feel especially heavy for solo agers who are spending the day without nearby family, a spouse, or ...
Monday, June 8, 2026
Tag: Loneliness
Quote of the day by Carl Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
Carl Jung set down this sentence in the 1950s, late in his working life, when the bulk of his clinical ...
Staying Connected After 60: 10 Community Groups That Help Seniors Avoid Loneliness
Loneliness doesn’t just feel uncomfortable—it can quietly impact your health, finances, and overall quality of life. Studies show that about ...
The boomer generation wasn’t raised by permissive parents — they were raised by exhausted ones, and what looked like freedom was mostly just the absence of supervision, which produced independence and loneliness in equal measure
You’ve probably heard the narrative before: Baby Boomers had it easy. Their parents spoiled them, gave them too much freedom, ...
There’s a specific kind of person who has always been good at solitude — the kind who reads, walks, gardens, thinks — and the world spent their younger years asking them why they weren’t more social, and now those same people are aging into the version of life that quietly suits them, and the loneliness epidemic everyone is naming is mostly happening to other people
Everyone’s wringing their hands about a loneliness epidemic. Fine. But it’s not hitting all of us the same way. Some ...
Nobody prepares you for the particular loneliness of not enjoying your own life — not because it’s empty, but because it looks so full from the outside that you can’t even say it out loud without feeling like you’re complaining
Last week, I was mid-sentence in a conversation with a friend, telling her how great things were going, when I ...
There is a particular loneliness in being a man whose body never matched the archetype he was taught to aspire to. Not because anyone was cruel about it, but because the world built its furniture, its expectations, and its respect around a size he would never reach.
Every man who grew up feeling like his body didn’t match what the world expected knows the exact dimensions of ...
There’s a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are very good at listening. Everyone trusts them with the heavy stuff, everyone seeks them out when things fall apart, and nobody ever thinks to ask them how they’re doing because the role was assigned so early it became invisible.
A man I mentored years ago, a young apprentice who could strip and terminate cable faster than anyone I’d seen ...
Struggling with loneliness? Psychology says these 8 behaviors might be why
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Loneliness has this sneaky way of making you feel like you’re the ...
Robot Care On The Rise: Is Technology Easing Loneliness or Just Masking It?
Technology has always promised convenience, but in senior care, it now promises companionship. From robotic pets that wag their tails ...
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