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What we expect from our relationships and what we experience can be two different things. But it’s the disconnect between the two that causes feelings of loneliness. That’s why even if we’re around people, it doesn’t offer a sense of connection. What’s needed to develop more meaningful connections with those around us? These three points

A recent study by the global health care provider Cigna revealed that most adults over the age of 18 consider themselves to be lonely and that Generation Z (people born from the mid-1990s to early-2000s) is the loneliest of all. They found that a lack of meaningful human connections resulted in negative health outcomes that

With appreciation and a fighting spirit comes deep transformation. by Nick Kano ATLANTA In Spring 2014, I was 21 years old and arrested for selling drugs. Due to my intense financial struggles, dealing drugs, I thought, was the only way to make money. Fortunately the charges were dropped, but my challenges continued. One by one,

Vivek H. Murthy, who served as the U.S. surgeon general from 2014 to 2017, added emotional well-being and loneliness to his list of big public health worries. In a Harvard Business Review article, Murthy writes that “we live in the most technologically connected age in the history of civilization, yet rates of loneliness have doubled