Why More Friends Won't Cure Your Loneliness | Luke Storey • 475
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for AwakeningShow Notes
Why can you feel completely alone even when a bunch of people love you? Luke Storey breaks down why loneliness has almost nothing to do with how many people are in your life and everything to do with how disconnected you've become from yourself. This conversation moves past the advice to build more community into what's actually happening when you feel alone in a crowd of thousands, inside your marriage, or standing in a mom group surrounded by people you like. Turns out, finding yourself matters more than finding more people. What you'll learn: Why crowds of people can still feel completely isolating How meditation became the one place Luke never feels alone Why endless self-work can quietly become its own isolation
Luke Storey is the host of The Life Stylist Podcast, where he's spent a decade exploring consciousness, recovery, and human potential. His new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, comes out of nearly three decades of his own recovery and spiritual work untangling what loneliness actually is. Find Luke's book "A Horse Named Lonesome" and all links at: mindlove.com/475 Ready to find your way back to yourself with people who actually get it? Join the free Mind Love Collective for the kind of intimate community where breakthroughs happen. mindlove.com/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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