Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 139 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

This episode is all about using mindfulness to help us feel supported during times of loneliness and isolation. This topic has been requested a few times now and it's

something which is really important to me too. So thank you to everyone who asked me to share more about it so I thought I'd talk about

my top five tips for using mindfulness during lonely times these are all things I do myself

and they're actually activities and practices which are super helpful for me you may already know

that I'm an introvert but I also have quite a strong sense of separation anxiety when I'm apart from people I love.

It's a strange balance of needing time to recharge on my own and having a quiet space to relax in, but at the same time, feeling nervous and afraid of being left alone.

I've had to learn a lot about being okay with

spending time on my own and growing more comfortable with my own company. I really hope you

enjoy the tips and they might come in useful. Tip one, recognize that you're alone,

but that doesn't have to mean that you're lonely. I often use to connect loneliness with being alone,

but the truth is they are two very separate things. You can be alone without feeling lonely

and you can also feel lonely even when you're not alone. One of the ways I use mindfulness

is to simply recognize the situation for what it really is. Often I realize that I'm not

actually lonely, I'm just on my own. But being on my own doesn't have to feel scary or

isolating. It can be an opportunity to do nice things for myself, like reading a book or taking a

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