Can slow living make us lonely?

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Can the desire to live a slower life, when combined with introversion, actually make us lonely? In this episode Brooke chats with listener Nancy about the struggle to connect with like-minded people while also creating space for alone time.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast.
0:15.8	This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.
0:19.5	My name is Brooke McCallory.
0:20.9	My name is Ben McCallery and a warm welcome to you for Season 4, episode 2.
0:26.9	The first half of this conversation, you speak with a listener of the show.
0:32.4	I do.
0:33.3	And her name is Nancy.
0:34.8	It is.
0:35.1	Do you want to just tell us a little bit about Nancy?
0:38.2	So Nancy wrote in asking specifically about, it's a weird way to say specifically.
0:44.3	And about.
0:46.3	About.
0:46.4	Specifically about relationships.
0:47.6	About.
0:48.8	Being an Aussie.
0:52.4	Nancy has a lovely English accent. About relationships through the lens of slow living.
0:58.6	So Nancy and I have a lot in common, actually, it turns out.
1:02.3	She can speak more eloquently than I can, but apart from that, she's very introverted,
1:07.3	but also very much loves the feeling of having good deep lingering conversations with close friends.
1:15.5	So there's that sort of duality or the paradox at play.
1:19.5	And she's begun to use the ideas of slow living as a way to insulate herself from
1:26.5	connecting with other people.
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