Even when you’ve made the healthiest choice for your nervous system… even when the boundary is clear and necessary…loneliness can still feel like a punch to the gut. But the truth is—belonging is part of healing. And you don’t have to be whole to be welcomed.

PS Society President shares a personal story about why silence is not helpful, that rage does not have to be loud and damaging, and work that we all have to do for a better world for ourselves, and our children.

Loneliness affects your mental and physical health. It's riskier than smoking, it shrinks your brain, and it's spreadable.

If you were to sit in my office for a day, you might be surprised at how often loneliness walks in disguised. Sometimes it’s bold—someone says, “This one hour with you is the only conversation I have all week.” Sometimes it’s quiet—hidden in a client’s hesitation to join a group after moving to a new city, or in the ache of an empty nest, or in the way a woman going through a divorce wonders where all “her people” went.