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How to Overcome Loneliness and Feel Connected

Learn how loneliness can actually be an opportunity for personal growth, and gain the tools to stop feeling isolated and start feeling more connected and resilient.

Featuring Christmas Hutchinson, MBA , Life and Career Coach

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Format
Lessons delivered daily to your email inbox.
Duration
This email-based course features lessons and daily challenges from a professional life coach. Plus, it's completely mobile-friendly.
Time
Each lesson takes around 10 minutes to read.

What you will learn

  • What loneliness is, where it comes from, and why it is normal
  • Methods for practicing self-compassion and avoiding negative self-talk
  • How to appreciate your time alone and make the most of it
  • Ideas for nourishing meaningful social interactions
  • Strategies to build community even online

Why should you take this course?

  1. To work through your feelings of loneliness. After identifying where your (totally normal!) loneliness stems from, you will build an emotional toolkit that will help you towards a newer, more positive outlook.
  2. To feel more connected and fulfilled. Create and deepen relationships with strategies that will equip you to comfortably maintain your old social connections and build new ones.
  3. To feel at ease in moments of aloneness. Everyone spends time by themselves. Receive strategies for how to find joy in solo time, and figure out how to feel content in whatever situation you find yourself in.

Course Overview

5 Lessons

Identify and Understand Loneliness
Revamp your Thinking
Make the Most of Alone Time
Enjoy More Social Interactions
Use Technology as a Social Tool

Meet the Expert

Christmas Hutchinson, MBA
Life & Confidence Coach
Christmas Hutchinson is a Life and Confidence Coach based in New York, New York. With over 18 years of experience in accounting and personal advising, Christmas uses her experience growing her career trying, failing, and re-strategizing obstacles to help clients change careers, land promotions, and build resilience. She is the author of "The Resilient Mind" and holds an MBA in Corporate Strategy and Finance from The Johns Hopkins University.
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What are others saying?

Chloe

I have been feeling a lot of loneliness. So, it made me feel better to see that I am not the only one out here feeling lonely in the world now. There are others too, and lots of them. The ways of understanding loneliness and then finding interventions or changes I can make helped me a lot.

Abdullah

This course has given me a blueprint on what to do about the loneliness I have felt, and has shown me I'm not the only one feeling like this out there. I am already finding more healthy and productive ways to channel my feelings.

Josef

This page has helped me understand the feelings I have had about being lonely on many occasions. I'm more calm now knowing that I'm not alone, and that there are ways I can combat these feelings. I was really impressed by the course overall. Thank you!

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