Hey guys, what's up? This is Mikkel with the Teen Life Coach podcast, and today we are talking about loneliness.

Now, loneliness is something that has come up in my work with a lot of girls.

I think it's something we don't want, right?

Like there's an very innate and human desire to want to connect with other people,

very deep within us that we want authentic deep relationships with people. It's one of those things that I

think just makes us feel very full and happy. And it really does add to the richness of life.

And I think loneliness is kind of that feeling you have when you think you don't have those

relationships in your life.

What I think is so interesting is we, you know, innately want connection, right?

But in today's day and age, we have so much connection at our fingertips with our cell phones

and social media.

But in a lot of ways, I think that that connection is very artificial and it actually isolates us from each other when we're not using

it right. But so first of all, let's talk about, I think the first important thing to understand

when dealing with loneliness is that you can

be alone without being lonely. And I think my introverts out there understand this concept, right?

Like you love your alone time. And not everyone's like that, obviously. I think I'm definitely

one of those people that was very afraid of

being alone i think it's scary for them because one they're kind of left alone with their thoughts

a lot of people don't have good relationships with their thoughts they don't know how to manage their

mind and their mind can just go like wherever the heck it wants. And so when

they're alone, it freaks them out. Like, they're scared of their thoughts versus when you're

with other people and you're talking and interacting and being busy, that that can kind of help

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