Do you experience Loneliness this time of the year? The Cure for Holiday Season Loneliness The holiday season can be full of fun, family, and friends but it can also be a lonely time of year. If you aren’t feeling the holiday spirit right now, there could be some reasons for this. It could be that your loved ones are far away and you’re unable to spend time with them over the holidays. You might feel bad because you’ve never had a close family or a partner to celebrate with. Maybe you’re estranged from your family of origin. Maybe you’ve never met “the one.” Because it’s such a people-oriented time of the year if you find yourself alone this holiday season you’re probably going to feel your loneliness more acutely than at any other time of the year. Fortunately, there are things you can do, right now, to make this and future holiday seasons brighter for you. First, it’s a good idea to ask yourself if there might be some things you’ve been doing that have resulted in your being so lonely. Have you isolated yourself and made it harder for people to connect to you? Have you behaved in ways that might have pushed other people away? If you think that either of these might be true, even to some degree, you owe it to yourself to do some self-reflection moving forward, so that you can create more meaningful connections in the coming year. Have you been hurt because of a painful break-up, separation or divorce? Did you lose one or more loved ones in the past year? Perhaps you’ve withdrawn into yourself out of grief or from the fear of getting close to someone again and once again, losing them. You need to see that it’s time to...

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