164 - The Roots of Loneliness: Understanding Why You Feel Alone

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Did you know that a study out of 10,000 adults showed that more than 3 out of 5 adults in the United States are lonely? We are the most connected we’ve ever been yet lonelier than ever before. On today’s episode Jessi shares her own story with loneliness, ways that loneliness shows up in our lives & tips to moving through loneliness that we may be experiencing. It is entirely normal to experience feelings of loneliness in our seasons of our lives. Links: Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!* Ready to begin your journey to a peaceful relationship with food & confidence in your own skin? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program. Find more tangible techniques + tools on how-to: reprogram your behaviors with food and conquer binge & emotional eating: Instagram Tik Tok

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0:00.0	I remember some of my first experiences with extreme loneliness started when I was in college
0:15.8	and I was dealing with binge eating, emotional, overeating, and I felt so insecure in my body that
0:23.1	I started to compare myself to others around me and I was so intimidated by the dating
0:28.5	scene because I didn't feel good enough. And then I just started to isolate myself more and
0:33.5	more and I felt increasingly more lonely. And then I went through a really painful best friend
0:39.6	breakup and that really ate away at my self-worth. And I felt more lonely, developed more social
0:46.6	anxiety and social awkwardness. And then when I started to navigate my way out of the cyclical patterns of binge and emotional overeating,
0:56.3	and I started to access food freedom. I started to gain increasingly more self-confidence,
1:02.6	but I've still experienced seasons of loneliness and a lot of comparison and some social
1:07.7	insecurities. And I want to talk about this epidemic, really, of loneliness and
1:13.4	some strategies to combat it because for me, it felt so embarrassing. And I don't feel like a lot of
1:18.6	people talk about loneliness. And I think it's really easy to get caught up in comparing
1:23.7	ourselves and our relationships and our lives to what we see on social media.
1:29.1	It is so hard to get out of those comparison cycles when we're bombarded with these images
1:35.1	and these videos of these elaborate gestures on Valentine's Day or these incredible
1:40.9	proposals or these amazing weddings or these, you know, girlfriend getaways or
1:45.9	whatever it is, it's really hard to not get sucked into comparison. And loneliness is on the rise,
1:51.8	actually, a survey of over 10,000 adults. This was, this survey was done in 2019. It showed that,
1:58.3	so this is before the pandemic. It showed that more than three out of five adults
2:02.8	were always lonely or often experienced loneliness. Like that's huge. We are actually more,
2:11.1	more connected than we have ever been in human history and we are lonelier than we've ever
2:16.9	been in human history. Technology has lonelier than we've ever been in human history. Technology has
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