Living Well with Janet: How To Be Alone Without Being Lonely

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Emily, Madelyn, Jen

Relationships, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Just because you’re alone, doesn’t mean you have to be lonely. Listen in as I share my thoughts on loneliness and how I've been living my life so that I can be alone without being lonely. Leave a 👉🏽👈🏽 in the comments if you enjoyed this episode! I'm also curious if you have tips for combatting loneliness - leave 'em in the comments so we can all get ideas :D Also, let me know what other subjects you're interested in hearing about - living well is such a broad topic and I'm always looking for new things to look into or test out and share. LA Coffee Shop Recs: • Sightglass in Weho • Eightfold Coffee in Echo Park • 3thymecoffee in K-Town Book Recs: • Trick Mirror Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino • Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Sources: • America has a loneliness epidemic. Here are 6 steps to address it • Alone and lonely are not the same. How to feel connected no matter how many people are around • How to (Really, Truly) Be Happy Alone • 32 Ways To Be Happy Alone & Enjoy Your Own Company • Solitude vs. Loneliness: How to Be Alone Without Being Lonely • 10 Things to Do When You Feel Alone __________________________________________ Host: Janet Wang Editor: Victoria Cheng __________________________________________ P A R T N E R S • Pampers: For trusted protection, trust Pampers, the #1 pediatrician recommended brand. • BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month with code “ABG” at betterhelp.com/ABG __________________________________________ C O N N E C T W I T H U S • Subscribe and Follow us @asianbossgirl on Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/YouTube/Instagram/Twitter/Facebook • Listener Survey: Let us know your thoughts on the podcast here • Shoutouts: Give a shoutout on the podcast here • Email: hello@asianbossgirl.com __________________________________________ S U P P O R T U S • Merch: asianbossgirl.myshopify.com • Donate: anchor.fm/asianbossgirl/support • More about us at asianbossgirl.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
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1:06.0	Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of Living Well with Janet, where we explore what it means to live well.
1:12.0	I'm your host Janet, a yogi and meditator, plant forward eater and all around wellness enthusiast.
1:18.0	I'm also a second generation Asian-American woman, an experimenter and a deep thinker.
1:23.0	Join me in my conversations and contemplations on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental aspects of living well.
1:46.0	In today's episode, I want to talk about how to be alone without being lonely.
1:51.0	If you follow our main ABG podcast show, you know that I recently went through a breakup.
1:58.0	And I'm finding myself back in a solo state, single, not quite ready to mingle, party of one.
2:06.0	And you know what? I've been feeling actually really content and fulfilled by myself.
2:11.0	Just because you're alone doesn't mean that you have to be lonely.
2:15.0	They are not one and the same. In fact, it is totally possible to be in a long time committed relationship and still feel lonely.
2:24.0	Or to have huge groups of friends and attend tons of social events and still feel lonely.
2:30.0	The other day, I was listening to Armchair Expert, which is a podcast with Dax Shupperd and Monica Patman.
2:36.0	And they were talking about this epidemic of loneliness in America.
2:40.0	The US Surgeon General was on their show and he talked about how 50% of US adults claim that they have experienced measurable levels of loneliness even before the COVID pandemic.
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