Loneliness is one of the greatest challenges facing human beings. It is a challenge that appears and renews itself every day, influencing a large part of the decisions, choices, and the nature of the experiences a person encounters in every moment of life.
Loneliness is also one of the most denied problems within human society, and even more than that, one of the problems about which there is far too little dialogue, knowledge, and practical tools for coping and transformation.
This book, which is a process of a deep inner journey into the roots of human loneliness, presents the reader with a fundamental understanding from which a process of healing and change can begin: human loneliness originates in the relationship a person has with themselves. It originates in the excessive human tendency to create “inner separations” and “inner isolation” between different parts of the human psyche. As long as a person does not recognize that their loneliness is a result of their relationship with themselves, they cannot create meaningful change within it.
Through a deep and multidimensional exploration of the psychological story of human loneliness, this book offers the reader the possibility of a process that may lead to a reduction in loneliness, and even to transforming loneliness into a kind of challenge through which one can grow and develop. This process involves an ongoing and evolving recognition of human limitations on the one hand, alongside the natural human ability to create change and transformation within them, even in a subject as complex as loneliness.
When a person recognizes that their first and most fundamental sense of “togetherness” is with themselves, and when they learn to identify the elements of loneliness they have unconsciously created within themselves, a door to change begins to open. A path emerges toward healing from loneliness, and toward freedom from all that loneliness once prevented them from experiencing and becoming.
Author: Dr. Pinkie Feinstein
Paperback, 233 pages.