EP-104 How to Cure Loneliness

Wabi Sabi - The Perfectly Imperfect Podcast with Candice Kumai

Candice Kumai

Health & Fitness, Education, Health, Wabisabi, How To, Nutrition, Mental Health, Wellness

4.9 • 793 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's that time of year when it gets dark, cold and lonely -- cuffing season, sure - but additionally a time when millions feel alone, and like they have no friends... here's an episode for all of you .. I'm here to help cure that cold, empty space of loneliness and no you are not alone. And if you are with friends and fam, we can help others with their loneliness, tech additions and isolation this season: here's how; 1- Seek out a community and volunteer - you will feel so full when you work in service 2- Look to nature for letting go and remember your anxiety and depression are normal and can be treated 3- Get yourself back out there and date - go out, even if its just a walk or a meal at a restaurant solo. 4- Take your single friends out, treat them to something special, listen to them, set them up, be an ear to lend 5- Go to the gym, learn to surf, cycle, join a running club etc- while you get fit- its a GREAT time to also connect with someone you love 6- Practice better self care and fall in love with yourself - you're the only one you've got - so you better like you 7- Knowing even those in relationships - they suffer too, and its work and its not perfect ! ppl are just lying. frontin' 8- Become self aware - take this time to study self awareness - a great book to start is "Being Peace" by Thich Nhat Hahn 9 - Listen to the words in this "Hard Candy Christmas" song by Dolly Parton ... this song is so sweet! 10- Become the person you want to be -- do it for yourself & know -- one day they will come - so enjoy this time of being single! its a really special time to learn about yourself - and if you are taken - be with your friends who are single and check in on them - take them out and check in on your friends in relationships too. Wabi Sabi all is perfectly imperfect. thank you for listening xx happy holidays. Be good to you!! Love yourself! You are beautiful! xx ck

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0:00.0	Hey, maybe I'll dye my hair.
0:10.7	Hi, friends, happy holidays, and welcome to the Wabi-Sabi podcast, where all perfectly perfect people are welcome.
0:19.9	I am coming to you guys from New York this week, which is so
0:24.5	exciting. During the holidays, it's always fabulous to be home here. Um, I will say it's nice and cozy
0:31.3	and cold. So today I wanted to focus on curing loneliness as I have done research and come to find that
0:41.3	there are so many lonely souls out there. And since we have evolved with technology,
0:48.2	including the cell phone, or if you want to call it a smartphone, whatever, we just have not been as connected, unfortunately.
0:57.1	It's actually done the reverse effect, which is called a boomerang effect.
1:01.2	We are less involved in each other's personal lives as far as in person and more involved
1:08.8	in each other's personal lives when it comes to maybe not needing
1:14.5	to be so involved. So today we'll debunk what loneliness really is and how we can stop
1:22.2	feeling so lonely, especially during the holidays. This is a time of year where people tend to snuggle up. They
1:30.6	start cuffing season. If you don't know what that is, it means, well, go ahead and Google it.
1:35.9	I'll tell you another time. I used to join that. Cuffing is something that you must do every year in New York,
1:42.9	especially if you're single. No shame.
1:46.8	All fun. You only live once. So it's important for us to be realistic about how we can help each
1:53.4	other out during the holidays. We tend to forget about people that might be single and we forget
1:59.2	that they are hurting inside. I wanted to let you all know
2:04.5	I thought about the last time I was single and I cried to my producer Rumi in Japan. We were in
2:15.9	Nagasaki. We had come off of interviewing some of the most phenomenal
2:20.7	survivors of the atomic bomb, known as the A-bomb. And I was going through a really rough time
2:27.5	while we were out there. Every person on the crew had a husband, wife, and or children also.
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