In this episode we explore why we are lonely, and what we can do about giving 3 (that maybe could have been 4) useful tips. 

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Create Joy Challenge 

This week's challenge is to figure out where you are lonely in your life, and make a connection. Some ideas are those mentioned  above… plan a date, invite a friend to lunch, call a friend, plan a party, talk to a stranger. And if the person you tried to connect just couldn’t this time, don’t be discouraged. Try someone else. 3 out of 4 people want to hang out with someone today, if only virtually… You can be that person.

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Quotes from Episode

“Comparing your relationship to ones you see on social media can generate a sense of loneliness.” - Clinical Psychologist Jenny Taitz

“Loneliness is a growing health epidemic. We live in the most technologically connected age in the history of civilization, yet rates of loneliness have doubled since the 1980s.” - former Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, Harvard Business Review

“The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone.” - Anna Draper (Mad Men)

Satan works hard to isolate us and tell us we are the only one experiencing them. - Sharon Eubank

“We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don’t know how much common that they have. - Ernest Gaines

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”- Hebrews 13:2

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