#391 Francesca Specter: How To Be Alone (and Enjoy it)

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emma gannon

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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My guest today is Francesca Specter, author of Alonement: How to be alone and absolutely own it, and the creator of the Alonement podcast. You guessed it, today we are discussing how to be alone - something I’m really passionate about as someone who values alone time, takes myself on solo trips and loves Julia Cameron’s suggestion of The Artist Date, where you take yourself on a date. Francesca speaks so brilliant about this and coined the term Alonement, which is different from being lonely - we talk about learning to enjoy your own company, what this means in the context of getting through a pandemic, tips and tools on how to embrace alone time if it’s something you feel afraid of and how we can speak about solitude in a more nuanced way. Hope you enjoy this conversation.

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Francesca's brilliant book ALONEMENT: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529412628
The Alonement podcast: https://www.alonement.com/podcast
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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Francesca Specter, author of
1:02.8	a loanment, how to be a loan and absolutely own it, and the creator of the a loanment podcast.
1:08.1	You guessed it, today's episode is all about how to be a loan. Something I'm really passionate
1:12.8	about as well as someone who really values my loan time. I take myself off on solo trips sometimes,
1:18.4	and I really enjoy being by myself, and it's something that I've learnt to love. It's not
1:23.3	something I was always very good at, and I love Julia Cameron's suggestion of the artist's date
1:28.5	of taking yourself on a date to get creative and stir new ideas by being a loan and discovering
1:35.0	things alone. Francesca speaks so brilliantly about this topic, and she even coined the term
1:40.1	a loanment, which is very different from being lonely, and we talk about that, the difference
1:45.8	between the two, and we talk about learning to enjoy our own company, what this means in the
1:50.0	context of the pandemic as well, a lot of us were forced to be alone, and a lot of us were forced
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