I was a teenager, I felt very lonely.

My parents both traveled, and I came from a divorce home,

and so I was left to raise myself from the age of 12,

so I had a lot of time to spend alone and by myself.

Can you relate?

Loneliness plagues so many people.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Lies Women Believe.

For February 19th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Thanks to the internet and social media, our world is perhaps more connected than it has been since the days of the Tower of Babel.

But do we actually feel more connected to others?

Or as my friend Aaron Davis puts it, are we experiencing a pandemic of everyone feeling alone together?

Loneliness is as much of a problem today as it has been for centuries,

and Nancy's here to share how healthy relationships can combat loneliness.

Do you ever feel like you would just like to get away from everything and everyone?

I read not too long ago about a woman who decided to take a

lengthy sabbatical from her family. She'd had enough, and she just left. She said, I'm coming back

one day, but I've had enough, I've had all I can take for right now. I need a break. I need some

time without people in my life. And we kind of laugh,

but we've all probably felt that way. We'd like, for moments, at least that vacation, away from people.

And yet God did not intend for us to live in isolation. There's been a lot written and said in

recent years about this whole plague of loneliness, the plague of aloneness.

I read recently about an English doctor named Dr. Smith who built an experimental room where someone could get away from everyone.

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