Loneliness: Staying Safe
4 Jan 2026 · 1 min
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Loneliness often comes from choosing to stay safe and small, limiting your exposure to protect yourself. But that safety costs you deeper connections, and the trade-off may no longer be worth it.
Loneliness often comes from choosing to stay safe and small, limiting your exposure to protect yourself. But that safety costs you deeper connections, and the trade-off may no longer be worth it.
But loneliness is often the unintended consequence of decisions that we, that we've made to stay safe and small. And so we look at that. What were those decisions? How are you staying safe? How are you staying small? And there is a cost. There is a benefit to those decisions because you, you've stayed safe and small, but there's been a cost. And that cost is the quality of your connection. And you are Like you are paying that price. And that's where we, that's where we start is like, what is the cost of this? Because you can, like, it kind of works now. It might not be working as effectively as it did in the past. Like your, your, your, the ways that you're staying safe and small, but you know, the cost, the cost is starting to outweigh the benefits.
