Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life. I'm your host

Cori Muscarra and in today's episode I'm going to share some thoughts on being single and why this is an opportunity.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so the other day I posted something on Instagram, which I'll read to you, which will sort of

of set the tone for this episode.

The post was, if you're single, hang out there for a bit. Start by creating a healthy relationship

with yourself before taking on another person. It's a gift to you and your future partner.

Now, I think this episode can be relevant to anyone that is single, but also anyone that is experiencing some

alone time or wants to get more familiar and comfortable with themselves in a alone time.

The beauty of being single and being alone, let's just say,

is that we don't have that security net that we often feel when we're with a partner.

Someone to hold our emotions, someone to hold our experience, someone we can share things with, and so in that

space of aloneness, our default can be to become lonely, But aloneness is different than loneliness. It's quite possible to

feel very full, connected, and loved in your basic alowness.

I mean, there are people living as hermits in caves

for decades at a time without seeing other human beings.

And I've met some of these people and they're some of the most happy people

I've met in my life.

And so I'm not saying that that should be how we live our lives and that we shouldn't value other people because there's a huge role of relationships within our well-being, especially

outside of an intense monastic setting.

But this is to point to that there is a capacity to develop a friendship and a

comfort and a sense of safety within ourselves that we can then take into a future partnership or a friendship or other relationships

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