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How to Beat Loneliness

By Guy Winch — 2015

We’ve all felt lonely from time to time. But sometimes, things can get out of hand. Psychologist Guy Winch lays out some straightforward tips to deal with the pain of deep loneliness.

Read on ideas.ted.com

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You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions—Your Brain Creates Them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of...

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2018
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

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Harriet Lerner
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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C. S. Lewis
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Connection: How to Find the Life You’re Looking for in the Life You Have

We are in the midst of an epidemic of loneliness. Though modern technology purports to “connect” us like never before, we live increasingly isolated and insulated lives, painfully disconnected from each other, from our values, and from ourselves.

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Kristine Klussman
2021
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Gordon Neufeld: Making Sense of Anxiety in Children and Youth

Dr. Gordon Neufeld speaks at The Dalai Lama Center about Anxiety in Children and Youth.

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Gordon Neufeld
2012
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.

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James Doty
2017
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A Guided Meditation for Loneliness

Try this guided meditation from Yael Shy, founder and director of MindfulNYU, to help you embrace loneliness.

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Yael Shy
2019
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Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace

How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.

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Stephanie Y. Evans, Jana Long (foreword)
2021
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Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times

If you’ve suffered from sleep problems, hyperreactivity, persistent grief, or inescapable worry about the future―especially triggered by the nonstop news cycle―then you’re probably dealing with emotional inflammation. The good news is: there’s something you can do about it.

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Lise Van Susteren, Stacey Colino
2020
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Emotion, Stress, and Health: Crash Course Psychology #26

In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank discusses stress, emotions, and their overall impact on our health.

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2014
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Loneliness