How to Fix the Loneliness Epidemic | BoF VOICES 2021
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The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
To mark Mental Health Awareness Month, Intimacy expert and podcast host Lila lays out a formula for creating intimacy to combat loneliness.
“We are simultaneously the most connected and the loneliest we have ever been,” said intimacy expert Lila at BoF VOICES 2021, just before the Omicron wave extended further restrictions and social distancing amid the pandemic.
Indeed, social distancing caused a complete breakdown in contact among family, friends, and entire communities. But the epidemic of loneliness predates the Covid-19 crisis, and has only worsened since the pandemic began
On this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast Lila explains why intimacy is the cure for loneliness, and lays out a formula for creating authentic connections.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to the BOF podcast. It's Friday, May 20th. It's Mental Health Awareness Month, |
| 0:14.7 | a time to have honest conversations about removing the stigma around mental health. One and four adults feel lonely. |
| 0:22.4 | Some are all of the time. |
| 0:24.8 | There's no single reason for this. |
| 0:26.7 | Everyone can find themselves feeling that way, |
| 0:29.2 | especially amid a pandemic which kept us locked away from our friends and family. |
| 0:34.8 | This week on the BOF podcast, we go back to Voices 2021, where we heard from |
| 0:39.7 | intimacy expert and podcast host Lila on the loneliness epidemic that predates COVID-19 and has only |
| 0:47.7 | worsened since the pandemic began. We are simultaneously the most connected and the loneliest we have ever been. |
| 0:56.6 | COVID didn't start this. |
| 0:58.5 | In 2015, researchers at Brigham Young University discovered that the morbidity of loneliness, |
| 1:04.8 | the increased likelihood that you will die, |
| 1:07.1 | is equivalent to that of smoking 15 cigarettes a day or air pollution. |
| 1:12.8 | On this week's episode of the BOF podcast, Lila explains how intimacy is the cure for loneliness |
| 1:19.4 | and lays out a formula of how we can all create more intimacy in our lives. |
| 1:25.1 | Here's Lila at BOO-F Voices 2021. |
| 1:30.3 | When I was 15, I used to work at a Renaissance fair. Oh, you know it. So it's, for those of you who don't, it's when a bunch of Americans dress up in corsets, pretend to be British, and run around eating turkey legs the size of your head. |
| 1:45.6 | And I loved it. I was absolutely obsessed with it. I was especially enamored with the guy |
| 1:52.1 | playing the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was 30. Yes, you did the math, right. Aside from |
| 1:58.8 | my proclivity for much older men, |
| 2:01.6 | I was a really good kid. |
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