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Embracing Solitude Healing After Divorce #shorts

4 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this short reflective monologue, the speaker addresses the challenge of being alone after a divorce, noting how quiet moments can amplify intrusive thoughts, mind loops, and rumination when external distractions are absent. She emphasizes that healing involves not merely tolerating solitude but learning to love and cherish time spent in communion with oneself. A key point is the distinction she draws between loneliness—a painful sense of isolation—and solitude, which can be a purposeful, enriching state.

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Finding yourself in the quiet can feel challenging because it can feel like our thoughts are running away from us, like we can't stop those mind loops and those ruminations from happening because we're not distracted by other things going on around us. But one of the critical aspects of healing after divorce is that ability to not just be okay with being by ourselves, but actually learning to love that time where we are in communion with ourselves. And I want to share that there's a difference between loneliness and solitude.