Solitude

Thoughts on a Mother's Life -- and Death

Gigi Levangie Grazer | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Stress of Parenting, Parenting Pressures, Loneliness, Divorce, Mary Richardson Kennedy, Solitude, Marriage Advice, The Kennedys, Parenting Advice, Parents, Women News
Gigi Levangie Grazer

I want to say this to women, especially to mothers who've lost themselves, gone through a bad marriage, a bad divorce and are worried about being an imperfect parent...

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Isolated on an Island, Dealing With Grief

Lea Lane | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Bay of Fundy, Relationships, Mindful Living, Grief, My Story, Death and Dying, Canada, Travel, Unplug and Recharge, Healing, New Brunswick, Grand Manan Island, Grieving, Emotional Wellness, Gps-Soul, Solitude, Healthy Living News
Lea Lane

Alone on the cliffs of Grand Manan Island overlooking the misty Bay of Fundy, I didn't feel any lonelier than I did anywhere else. I felt peaceful. I missed my husband, but now I felt his presence more clearly in my memories.

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Feeling Lonely? You're Not Alone

Alexis Sclamberg | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Women, Loneliness, Self Help, Inspiration, Solitude, Lonely, Living Alone, Singles, Motivation, Peace, Self-Help, Women News
Alexis Sclamberg

Solitude can be nourishing and nurturing. It offers space for reflection -- the chance to hear your own voice against a world of chatter.

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Why Are So Many Women Living Alone

The New Yorker | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Living Alone, Single Life, Solitary Life, Going Solo, Women Living Alone, Solitude, Women's Liberation, Women News

As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year sends a curious constellation to the multiplex: a minor cluster of romantic come...

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Are You An Introverted Or Extroverted Parent?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Extroverts, Solitude, Introverts, Parenting a Child Different Than You, Parentry, Arianna Huffington, Sleep, Relaxation, Video, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

How does an extrovert respectfully raise an introvert? How does an introverted parent not become overwhelmed by an extroverted child?

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Alone For The Holidays? How To Make The Most Of Solitude

The Huffington Post | Kate Bratskeir | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Holidays, Easter, Loneliness, Video, Mindfulness, Solitude, Alone, Being Alone, Passover, Healthy Living News

Holidays have been etched into the our calendars as moments we "should" be sharing with friends and family. But sometimes, for one reason or another (...

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Being Alone and Loving It...

Nikki Luongo | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Companionship, Mindfulness, Wisdom, Independence, Solitude, Healthy Living News
Nikki Luongo

During the 1950s, when actress Greta Garbo walked away from her very lucrative movie career and become nearly reclusive in New York City, she establis...

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Don't Dis(miss) The Red Hats

Pamela Poole | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Socializing, Companionship, Isolation, Widowhood, Entertainment, Charity, Divorce, Red Hat Society, Solitude, Fun, Arts, Culture, Video, Fifty News
Pamela Poole

This is the scene: My diminutive, white-haired, almost-70 mother walking through a hotel parking lot in San Diego one morning in a purple satin kimono with ostrich feather trim over boxer shorts and a t-shirt that says "Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!" Plus red cowboy boots and a red cowboy hat.

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Solitude: Alone or on the iPhone

Stanton Peele | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Connectivity, Loneliness, Technology, Solitude, Social, Unplug and Recharge, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

Human beings are social animals -- they are also solitary ones. Many things in modern life are done alone, even within well-integrated families and social groups.

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Face Your Pace: It's OK To Slow Down

D.G. Fulford | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Pace, Elly May, Solitude, Starbucks, Seeking Solitude, Walking Pace, Getting Out of Bed, The Beverly Hillbillies, Scarlet O'Hara, Slowing Down, Fifty News
D.G. Fulford

The epiphany of pace takes place in the oddest of spaces when you aren't raising kids or grandkids, or taking care of an aging parents anymore. When you are alone, you begin to notice.

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Longing For Silence And Solitude

Elizabeth Cunningham | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Silence, W. B. Yeats, Contemplative Practice, Solitude, Meditation Retreats, Noise Pollution, Meditation, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Finding Solitude, Mindfulness Meditation, Urban Noise, Mindful Living News
Elizabeth Cunningham

In most places in our industrialized world it is impossible to be out of range of machine noise. I am homesick for a place that may not exist any longer.

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Ramadan Reflection Day 13: The Blessing Of Solitude

Imam Khalid Latif | Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Ramadan, Islam, Solitude, New York City, Fasting, Quran, Rumi, Ramadan Fasting, Taqwa, Ramadan Reflection, Religion News
Imam Khalid Latif

Moments of solitude are important depending on how we use them. It's very different seeking solitude in order to remove yourself from frustration versus seeking solitude to grow and develop as you reflect upon and contemplate the world around you and how you fit into it.

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The Joy Of Solitude

Erin Joy Henry | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Relationships, Solitude, Dating, Dating Advice, Single Happy, Dating Single, Happily Single, Being Alone, Being Single, Happy, The Inner Life, Happiness, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Living News
Erin Joy Henry

Being in solitude rather than loneliness is a choice, and we are ultimately in charge of our minds. I believe that the freedom found in solitude will support love.

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Chasing Daylight: Some Thoughts on Mortality

Chris Guillebeau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortality, Non-Conformity, Gratitude, Trauma, Solitude, Books, 9/11, Doctors, Living, Death, Books News
Chris Guillebeau

Last Acts and Chasing Daylight serve as good reminders that we don't always get to choose how things turn out, so it's important to be deliberate in the things we do have control over.

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Are You Single at Heart?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Nuclear Family, Romantic Relationships, Friends, Social Life, Divorce, Relationships, Single at Heart, Matrimania, Relationship Ending, Happiness, Loneliness, Education, Singlism, Career, Self-Sufficiency, Solitude, Married, Single Parents, Plus One, Health, Sex, Personal Mastery, Negative Emotions, Coupled, Weddings, Partner, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

To be single at heart, I think, means that you see yourself as single. Your life may or may not include the occasional romantic relationship, but you don't aspire to live as part of a couple for the long term.

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Solitude for Extroverts: Medicine for the Weary Soul

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Solitude, Extroversion, Dr. Judith Rich, Unplug and Recharge, Life Fitness Coaching Boot Camp, Meyers-Briggs, The Inner Life, Wellness, Rx for the Soul, Healthy Living News
Dr. Judith Rich

For extroverts, we'd almost rather be dead than feel alone and irrelevant. This is why we're so driven to be in the spotlight. Nobody would think to look for insecurity in the ones who seem to be running the show.

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Sacred Seclusion: A Meditation On My Self

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Feelings, Emotions, Self, Experience, Solitude, Retreat, Seclusion, Self-Esteem, Quite, Self-Help, Meditation, Healthy Living News
Donna Henes

After all our years as mothers and others, we need to reestablish who we are as individuals, separate and distinct from our relationships with those around us.

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The Desert Way: A Lenten Reflection

Elizabeth Cunningham | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Alzheimer's, Jesus in the Desert, Lenten Observance, Senile Dementia, Lent, Solitude, Healthy Living News
Elizabeth Cunningham

The human herd has always huddled close for comfort and survival. To seek solitude is a radical act that puts survival -- and possibly sanity -- at risk.

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Hibernating in Winter: Heart and Hearth

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rest, Heart, Hearth, Solitude, Soul, Heat, Winter, Hibernation, Home, Spirituality, Darkness, Healthy Living News
Donna Henes

We still have four more weeks until the Vernal Equinox, when we will emerge into the light. Let us use this remaining time of darkness well.

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The Inner Journey I Had To Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff

Lea Lane | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: New Brunswick Canada, Leo Kotke, Mel Torme, Widowhood, The Eagles, Relationships, Unplug and Recharge, Death, Traveling Alone, The Inner Life, Solo Travel, Bay of Fundy, Solitude, Dusty Springfield, Being Alone, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Lea Lane

Why, I wondered, did I go on this solitary inner journey, farther than I had ever traveled, but within myself? To wash away pain? To prove my fortitude?

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Marital Mentality #2: The More Profound Historic Change

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Singled Out, Friends, Relationships, Marriage, Solo Living, Personal Communities, Singles, Myths, Sociability, Same-Sex Marriage, Meaning of Life, Solitude, Single Parents, Passions, Siblings, Legal Protections, Family, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

Why should you have to be any kind of a couple to have access to basic rights, protections, dignity, and respect?

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Circles

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Growing Up, Solitude, Growing Old, Midlife, Dream Interpretation, Midlife Crisis, Family, Healthy Living News
Stephanie Gertler

There is an urgency lately that prevents me from wanting to be where and who I am right now. And no, it's not a mid-life crisis. I'm longing for yet another re-invention.

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Why I'm Alone

Lea Lane | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Living Alone, Being Alone, Solitude, Solo, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Single Life, Healthy Living News
Lea Lane

I'm alone because life doesn't always wind up the way you expect it to, and it wound up this way for me, and I roll with it. I'm alone. I'm a solo lady. Alone, but not lonely.

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Like Your Time Alone? Then This Post is For You

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Creativity, Households, Aging, Divorce, Relationships, Loner, Daphne Merkin, School Shooters, Serial Murderers, Singles, Imagination, Atlantic Magazine, Work From Home, Happiness, Sociability, Isolation, Solitude, Anneli Rufus, American Psyche, Loneliness, Ostracism, Kids With Rooms of Their Own, Small Talk, Living Independently, Pseudo-Loners, Living Alone, Singled Out, Jonathan Rauch, Introvert, Demographics, Boredom, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

I live in the most ordinary American household - I live alone. Knock on any door in the nation and you are more likely to find a household like mine t...

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Just Think

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Blackberry, Thinking, Loneliness, Modernity, Solitude, Media News
Richard Laermer

What if restaurants put a bin near the door for our cell phones, Blackberries, etc? Consider what would happen when our dining companions got up to use the bathroom, leaving us alone. With our solo thoughts.

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