Loneliness Experience

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What is loneliness? Why does it happen? Dr. Kirk interviews colleague and friend, Christy Forrester, about her experience.

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0:00.0	Hey deserving listeners, today's episode is about the experience of loneliness.
0:05.6	I have been asked questions about loneliness throughout my career and throughout my podcasting life
0:11.8	and at first I thought, you you know there's got to be some easy tips to
0:15.9	help cure loneliness and people and then as I worked with people clinically and
0:20.9	personally I found that loneliness is much more stubborn and
0:25.7	much more mysterious and much more confusing than I originally thought and
0:30.3	as a part of that investigation of the Mystery of Loneliness, I asked if Christy Forrester would
0:38.0	kindly come on the podcast and talk about her experience of loneliness. She's a therapist and she's a therapist and she understands how to help people very well.
0:48.0	She's a very successful private practice and she also has a lot of experience with loneliness so let's get to that interview.
0:55.9	So Christie do you want to introduce yourself to the podcast listeners?
1:00.3	I'm Christie Forster and I'm a marriage and family therapist in Seattle and a friend of
1:07.4	Kirk's and studied under Kirk. Yeah and I've been making these episodes about loneliness and you and I often talk about loneliness and I thought it'd be great to have you on the show to talk about it.
1:19.2	So what would you like to share with the listeners?
1:23.0	I really have only begun to know loneliness in the last couple of years in a deeper way.
1:29.7	When I was younger, there was always people around. Just being around people doesn't necessarily make you not
1:36.2	lonely, obviously. My experience with loneliness in the last couple of years and of
1:41.4	course through the pandemic has intensified.
1:45.2	And it's not an easy place to be and there's a lot of sadness sometimes, you know,
1:50.6	there's a lot of sadness around it, but then there's also a lot of thinking about it. How can I feel this feeling and lean into it?
1:59.0	I remember talking with you, gosh a couple years ago, Kirk, and I just had this moment sitting
2:06.0	in my living room and everything was so quiet and I announced to myself, I had to say
2:11.8	it out loud to the room, oh, this is loneliness, and it kind of really hit me at that moment.
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