I am not quick to play the victim when it comes to living the single life. But you know who woke me up on my birthday in the middle of a pandemic? Fear! I came out swinging trying to fight all those voices that were telling me that I wasn’t worth as much since I was alone again on another birthday. It can be challenging enough to be single any other day of the year, but being single during a season of social distancing is a whole other beast! 

 

Sure, I may have been saved from fighting with a spouse. I may also have all the free time, flexibility, and independence I could ever want right now, but that doesn’t mean I’m not lonely. As strange as it is to say, being lonely is exhausting while being alone can be a gift. It’s everything at once. This is exactly why I say this is not a conversation about either this or that, but of both. It’s time to stop minimizing and dismissing one another’s pain. It’s time to listen-and do so without offering a side of your best advice. 

 

In this episode we’ll explore: 

• Why we have the tendency to minimize someone else’s pain
• How it may be easy to identify when someone else is masking their own pain
• Why peace and freedom often follow when we allow ourselves to sit in the hard emotions 

 

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