Connecting on Loneliness

100% of us are experiencing loneliness right now or have experienced it in the past. 100% of us TODAY will experience loss (es) of connection / failed bids of connection that lead to grief, that can be felt as loneliness. This is OUR silent epidemic in our world that's creating a chaotic world of fear, addiction, separation, and violence. Just as we need food and water to survive and thrive in life, we also need genuine human connection to thrive! Loneliness is an alarm telling us we are lacking connection, just as hunger and thirst are alarms to us needing food and water. AND because our culture quite literally shames our UNIVERSAL need to need people, we hide in shame, silence, and isolation when we're experiencing loneliness. But the loneliness does not disappear - it manifests in ourselves and our world as violence, abusive behaviour and language, outbursts, 'busyness' and overwhelm,…