Mar 26, 2018
In this podcast, I've come up with 12 practical steps you can take now to help alleviate your loneliness. I remember the time I first felt lonely. I had just moved to a foreign country on my own, started a new job and was going through a break up, literally all at once. I was on an emotional roller coaster, yet there was one HUGE emotion that stood out for me head and shoulders above the rest. Loneliness. You see at that time I had no friends in the new country. Not one. I had literally just moved, ready to start my new life with my fiancé. Then it went wrong. Yes, I had the huge support of family and friends back home, but there was only so much help they could offer me from 6,000 miles away. Particularly back when Skype was banned and calls back home were expensive. The fact is, I was lonely and at that time, there was no one to fall back on. Looking back now, being lonely changed my life for the better. Being lonely spurred me on to do so many things that ultimately lead me to changing my life. But at the time, I felt awful. At the peak of loneliness, I felt absolutely dreadful and there is nothing nice about that, despite where I eventually ended up.