The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life.

This week on The Living Experiment, we talk about Lonely — the experience and stigma of that feeling, and the negative impacts it has on our well-being. We explore some of the reasons more of us are feeling lonely these days, and how we can get out of the vicious cycles that keep us more isolated than we’d like. We also suggest some experiments that help you create more time, space and energy for social connections that support your own health and happiness. Episode Highlights What is loneliness? Why do we get lonely? Dallas and Pilar share their thoughts (1:30) How loneliness affects our lives and overall health (6:35) Skin hunger (10:55) Using television as a social crutch (13:30) Recognizing loneliness and social withdrawal as a societal issue (15:00) Untangling the knot of loneliness (20:25) Social feeds as digital junk food — calories but no nutrients (24:30) Why face-to-face contact matters (35:50) Building the skills of assessing and alleviating your own loneliness (39:50) Experiments for the week (