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How to Handle Being Homesick at College

By Josh Moody — 2019

Homesick students should embrace student life as a way to make new friends and develop a sense of home.

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Author Jonni Pollard Talks About His New Book and Finding True Fulfillment and Purpose

Anxiety, conflict, self-doubt, disconnection, lack of purpose or fulfillment—if we’re honest with ourselves, for many of us, these are common experiences.

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Jonni Pollard
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A Life Worth Waking Up For

People who love the life they live find more time to live it.

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Joshua Becker
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Reconnecting with Friends Can Help You Feel Less Regret

Research shows there’s a mental limit on how many people we can feel deeply connected to; federal data indicates most Canadians have a squad of around five close friends and the famous “Dunbar’s Number” theory suggests 150 friends is the cap for our social networks.

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Al Donato
2019
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Emotional Detachment: What It Is and How to Overcome It

Emotional detachment is an inability or unwillingness to connect with other people on an emotional level. For some people, being emotionally detached helps protect them from unwanted drama, anxiety, or stress.

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Kimberly Holland
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An Expert Explains Why You Feel So Lonely All the Time

We're living in what you might call an epidemic of loneliness. Recent research has shown that many of the people we feel close to probably don't reciprocate the feeling.

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Annie Vainshtein
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Feeling Numb: What You Need to Know

It is not unusual to feel emotionally numb after or during a very stressful event. A person may also notice a temporary feeling of dissociation or disconnection from the body and the outside world.

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Jennifer Huizen
2020
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How I Stopped Feeling So Lonely and Disconnected

My whole existence could be described in two words: inadequate and lonely. I remember one day walking down the hall in school. I was so tense that I couldn’t seem to walk straight. I felt like I was a prisoner in my own body and mind. There was me, and then the rest of the world.

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Charles A. Francis
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Signs You're Disconnected from Your Body + What to Do About It

I know what it's like to feel disconnected — not only from yourself, but from others and the world. It's a painful place to be. I've lived with that nagging sense of things being not quite right. I've felt the restlessness of wanting more from life, without knowing exactly what I was looking for.

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Marissa Håkansson
2020
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Combating an Epidemic of Loneliness

Humans can survive three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food and — according to survival lore — three months without companionship. Whether true or not, what’s clear is that people need people.

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Emily Sohn
2020
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Could Psychedelics Help to Heal the Crisis of Disconnection?

Psychedelics can unlock a newfound appreciation of nature, a profound sense of being part of a much larger whole and of a magnificent interconnected web of life.

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Sam Gandy, Rosalind Watts, Alex Evans
2019
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