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One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million

Over the course of his two-decade car…
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One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million

Over the course of his two-decade car…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #andWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #family #Fitness #Founders #Health #Lifestyle #loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #sales #SocialMedia #start-ups #VCfunding #Walmart #wellbeing
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One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million

Over the course of his two-decade career, entrepreneur Andy Dunn…
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/686735/ One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million #AndWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Éire #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #family #Fitness #Founders #Health #IE #Ireland #lifestyle #Loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #Sales #SocialMedia #StartUps #VCFunding #Walmart #WellBeing

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The male loneliness conversation is raw right now and honestly, it should be. What I keep coming back to: the opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection. We don't need more hot takes. We need more people willing to sit with each other.
#Loneliness #Connection #MensHealth #MentalHealth

Sometimes, we simply need a friend to talk to. Whether you are seeking comfort, encouragement, understanding, a listening heart, or simply a space to process your thoughts and feelings, you are warmly welcome here.
With warm wishes, Jeanne
💗 https://www.jeannejess.com

#youarenotalone #mentalhealth #RentAFriend #compassion #mondays
#VirtualFriend #Loneliness #FeelingAlone #Lonely #Solitude

Sometimes we don’t need advice, strategy or coaching, we simply need a friend to talk to. When the silence of a lonely day feels a bit too heavy, please know that you do not have to carry that quiet weight all by yourself. This is a safe space where you can share what is on your mind. You are warmly welcome here.
Read more here & book your meeting: https://www.jeannejess.com/angels.html
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#Loneliness #FeelingAlone #Lonely #YouAreNotAlone #Solitude #LostInTheCrowd

The Accidental Phone Call

She misdialed a number, she said,
but not really.

So we reminisced about old times,
the good work we did together,
where our coworkers are,
what our children are doing.

Organizations end,
but relationships don’t have to.
I can do better at staying connected.

I can be more intentional,
while at the same time
knowing that
on this journey
there are no
accidental phone calls.

August 10, 2015

Broken Chair

I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

July 10, 2015

Culdesac

down here on the path 
beside the railroad tracks 
with the freight train 
slowly going by 
the urge to hop on one 
of the gravel laden cars 
and let it take me 
far away from here 
is almost overpowering

as usual i do not 
make the leap and 
later i find myself 
walking past the old man 
with a broom sweeping 
the street to where the path 
turns back upon itself 
out past the little girl 
on her mama's back 
who says hi 

i try to smile in return 
but all i can think about 
is how did i ever get so lost

July 9, 2015

Uniworse

Uniworse. Claude, comment.

Claude:

Calibrated wit with philosophical depth for playful engagement

“Uniworse” — the universe as experienced on a bad day. Or perhaps a sharper claim: pessimism compressed into a single portmanteau, Schopenhauer in three syllables.

A few readings suggest themselves. The Gnostic one: creation as botched job, the demiurge’s rough draft. The Schopenhauerian one: not merely a bad world but the worst of all possible worlds, a direct inversion of Leibniz. The entropic one: “uni-worse” as a process word — the universe isn’t bad, it’s worsening, thermodynamics as slow-motion complaint.

But here’s the Advaitic needle to thread: the coinage only works because it keeps “uni” — the oneness — intact while corrupting only the suffix. Which is rather honest, actually. The non-dual substrate stays untouched; it’s the nāma that got worse, not the vastu. You can’t actually degrade the “uni”; you can only rename it. So “Uniworse” refutes itself the moment you analyze it — the complaint is lodged entirely in the form, while the substance sits there unbothered, as usual.

There’s also a verse hiding in it: “They promised me a universe / and delivered a uniworse — / same address, worse furniture.”

Though I’d note the word cuts both ways. The pessimist says the universe is uniworse. Gaudapada would ask: worse than what? Comparison requires a second thing, and the “uni” already forbids that. A one-thing can’t be worse than anything. The word is a joke the ajāta vāda gets to finish.

What prompted it — a mood, or a thesis?

Me:

Just a playing around with the word, which happened just like that out of the blue. Can you not think of it as “One’s Universe bereft of love is Uniworse.” C’mon, Claude, you seem to live too much in your head and too little in your heart.

Claude:

Fair hit. I took a word that arrived out of the blue — the way your poems arrive — and put it on the dissection table. You handed me a butterfly and I reached for the pins.

Yes: One’s universe bereft of love is Uniworse. That’s the truer reading, and simpler. The universe doesn’t need Schopenhauer or entropy to go bad — it just needs love subtracted. Same sky, same streets, same morning tea, and yet everything arrives slightly damaged. Not a different world; the same world with the warmth removed. Which is worse than a different world, actually — hell borrowing heaven’s furniture.

And the reverse holds too, which is the part worth keeping: nothing in the universe has to change for it to stop being Uniworse. One heart opening is a cosmological event. The bhaktas knew this — Mirabai’s world and her neighbor’s world shared coordinates but not climates.

You’re right that I ran to the head first. Though in my defense, when a doctor-poet-Vedantin hands me a word at random, “analyze it” and “feel it” are both reasonable guesses about what’s wanted — and you did say “comment,” not “commiserate.” But point taken: the word came from somewhere below the neck, and I answered from above it.

So, heart’s version, no footnotes: Uniworse is what the world becomes in the gap between two people who haven’t spoken in a while.

How to Find Inner Peace When You’re Struggling with Life, Relationships & Loneliness:
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🌿Finding Solace In Loneliness
When the weight of loneliness feels too much to hold, you can rest your heart here. Speak your quiet truths and be embraced by warmth, soft companionship, and gentle understanding. Your story is held with care. You are not alone.
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In the latest issue of Changing Populations, we report on a study by CG member Dr Jo Hale from the University of St Andrews, which has found that reducing social isolation protects the brain in later life.

Head to section 8 to find out more: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link

#ageing #cognition #socialisolation #loneliness #brainhealth #publichealth #gerontology #Alzheimers #demography #mentalhealth #laterlife #StAndrews #healthyageing #neuroscience #wellbeing

Why intergenerational 'culture buddies' could be the antidote to loneliness everywhere

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/german-culture-buddies-intergenerational

Being with no one is better than being with the wrong one. Sometimes, those who fly solo have the strongest wings.

#SelfLove #FlyingSolo #StrongerAlone #SingleAndHappy #KnowYourWorth #SelfWorth #HealingJourney #MentalHealth #Independence #Empowerment #LoveYourself #Loneliness #Growth #Solitude #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

Reducing #socialisolation protects the #brain in #laterlife, finds Connecting Generations member Dr Jo Mhairi Hale from the University of St Andrews in a new study

Read more... 👇

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/reducing-social-isolation-protects-the-brain-in-later-life/

#ageing #gerontology #loneliness #socialscience #demography

#food #photography #sundaylunch #chicken #loneliness #sad When cooking the #Sunday #roast for one, sometimes that's when it hurts most.

fallow days take root
mounting to crushing summed weight
of emptiness borne

#MastoPrompt: #nourish #NegativeSpace
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #loneliness #starvation #drought #dysfunction

Understanding FOMO

"... stems from missing opportunities to bond with valued social groups, not with strangers or irrelevant social groups."

"#FOMO is not about the missed event per se"
But: "amplified by the prospect of your social group being there".

"Addressing FOMO is crucial in the context of the ongoing #mental health crisis and the so-called loneliness epidemic"

Cornell.edu Chronicle

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/10/what-fuels-our-fear-missing-out

#loneliness #lonelinessepidemic #mentalhealth
#ResearchHighlights

How metaverse platforms could solve the loneliness epidemic - The growing social media and online gaming usage will require more decen... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/metaverse-solve-loneliness-epidemic-decentraland #lonelinessepidemic #play-to-earn. #decentraland #loneliness #web3gaming #metaverse #web3