All posts tagged "loneliness"
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Michael Schreiner | April 4, 2014
Relatedness
“The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the...
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Michael Schreiner | March 18, 2014
Unobserved Life
Many psychologies focused on the individual miss the fact that all human life occurs in a social context,...
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Michael Schreiner | February 18, 2014
Getting Closure
Sometimes it can sound a little cliche when we hear someone say they need to get closure. Maybe...
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Michael Schreiner | January 14, 2014
Emotional Abuse is Real Pain
Every child in our culture learns the refrain “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will...
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Michael Schreiner | November 21, 2013
Ostracism
It’s better to express your authentic thoughts and feelings and be excluded than to minimize these thoughts and...
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Michael Schreiner | October 25, 2013
Loneliness
Loneliness is one of the most painful emotional states. We are social creatures yet we are aware, at...
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Michael Schreiner | August 30, 2013
Community
Everyone knows in their bones that without community, without at least the possibility of one other person to...
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Michael Schreiner | June 27, 2013
Isolation Versus Solitude
Isolation and solitude both imply being alone but that is where the similarities end. They are opposite states...
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Michael Schreiner | April 30, 2013
Junk Mail
I received a large packet in the mail from a road service company with the bright and bold...
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Michael Schreiner | October 3, 2012
Existential Isolation
You started your life physically connected to another organism. While you lived in the womb for around nine...