#loneliness — Public Fediverse posts

The self-care industry is worth $2 trillion. People are lonelier than ever. We took a structural problem—the erosion of community—and reframed it as a personal failing. "You're not doing enough self-care." I've learned: self-care is a starting line, not a finish line. What sustains people is community. Resilience scales through community. New post: https://dub.sh/QlAIoVG
#SelfCare #Community #Connection #Loneliness #MentalHealth

I am feeling lonely and I need companionship. Is anyone interested in talking to me and hanging out with me?

#loneliness #companionship #reallife #lookingforconnection #sharedspaces #quietmoments #honestreflections #livedexperience #authenticity #solitude #humanconnection

I am feeling lonely and I need companionship. Is anyone interested in talking to me and hanging out with me?

#loneliness #companionship #reallife #lookingforconnection #sharedspaces #quietmoments #honestreflections #livedexperience #authenticity #solitude #humanconnection

I am feeling lonely and I need companionship. Is anyone interested in talking to me and hanging out with me?

#loneliness #companionship #reallife #lookingforconnection #sharedspaces #quietmoments #honestreflections #livedexperience #authenticity #solitude #humanconnection

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
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/846583/

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
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/846583/

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…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #andWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #Family #Fitness #Founders #Health #Lifestyle #Loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #Sales #SocialMedia #Start-Ups #UK #UnitedKingdom #VCfunding #Walmart #wellbeing
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/769439/

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

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1202036/ One year after a bipolar episode, Bonobos cofounder sold his company to Walmart for $310 million #AndWellness #Business #Careers #CEOWellness #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #Family #Fitness #Founders #Health #Lifestyle #loneliness #Marriage #MentalHealth #Millionaires #PersonalHealth #Sales #SocialMedia #StartUps #UK #UnitedKingdom #VCFunding #Walmart #WellBeing

🚬 UK research says smoking is not social and instead leads to increased loneliness

✨Follow the link for more information on this story✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/smoking-is-the-loneliest-number

#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #smoking #loneliness #ERSC

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

Popular: "Why do you stay in parasocial relationships if you don't like them?

Unpopular: "Why do creators take advantage of others' loneliness for their profit and fame?

#popular #unpopular #parasocial #social #relationship #relationships #like #creators #mentalhealth #wellbeing #justice #loneliness #socialmedia #internet

URBAN REFUGE EXPERIMENT ALLEVIATES LONELINESS AMONG PARTICIPANTS

37 people in an urban nature program felt less lonely and more connected to nature. Find out how this experiment worked and its results.

#UrbanNature, #Loneliness, #MentalHealth, #NatureTherapy, #Community

https://newsletter.tf/urban-nature-experiment-reduces-loneliness-for-37/

37 people in a new urban nature program reported feeling less lonely. This is a significant change for those involved.

#UrbanNature, #Loneliness, #MentalHealth, #NatureTherapy, #Community
https://newsletter.tf/urban-nature-experiment-reduces-loneliness-for-37/

[Repost] Aesthetics and Financial Survival

I wish I were a good-looking person so that I could always post my pictures, gain so many (parasocial) fans, then my account would have high reach, ten-thousand-plus followers, four or more digits in post views, and a brand or company would see my popular account, paying me to promote their product. I would be happy because someone supported me financially. Nowadays, being good-looking is the best, I think. It might minimise poverty and loneliness, I guess. Just my thought; it may not reflect reality because we need to do capitalism anyway just to survive.

Edit 1: An AI challenged this view:-

"Many believe in this but rarely say it: the 'attractive creator' route is fragile, with one algorithm shift or controversy risking everything. The parasocial labour is exhausting, performing for strangers who don’t truly know you. Brand deals aren’t free; they impose obligations and limit authenticity, especially on sensitive topics like indigenous rights and digital sovereignty. Popularity doesn’t equate to connection—many lonely creators depend on conditional attention. Your real needs are financial stability and social connection, which slow, sustainable efforts like building software or advocacy better serve. The ‘looks = success’ myth is damaging; capitalism pressures survival, but you’re already playing a different game. What prompted this reflection—an aside or a current struggle?"

ⓘ Repost, because I accidentally deleted it.

#PrettyPrivilege #SocialMedia #Capitalism #ContentCreator #FinancialSurvival #InfluencerLife #Parasocial #SystemicIssues #Followers #BrandDeals #Loneliness #RealityCheck #EconomicSurvival #SocialMediaGrowth #DigitalEconomy #creators

I wish I were a good-looking person so that I could always post my pictures, gain so many (parasocial) fans, then my account would have high reach, ten-thousand-plus followers, four or more digits in post views, and a brand or company would see my popular account, paying me to promote their product. I would be happy because someone supported me financially. Nowadays, being good-looking is the best, I think. It might minimise poverty and loneliness, I guess. Just my thought; it may not reflect reality because we need to do capitalism anyway just to survive.

#PrettyPrivilege #SocialMedia #Capitalism #ContentCreator #FinancialSurvival #InfluencerLife #Parasocial #SystemicIssues #Followers #BrandDeals #Loneliness #RealityCheck #EconomicSurvival #SocialMediaGrowth #DigitalEconomy #Creators

Ender’s Game is a brilliant #ScienceFiction about relationships - brothers and sisters, children and adults, group dynamics… and #loneliness

A war that begins because they cannot simply talk to each other.

And love for the enemy, without which true victory is impossible.

#books #reading #book #literature #scifi #bookstagram #endersgame #orsonscottcard #amreading #readingcommunity #readingclub #readit #bookstodon #booksky #bookreview #BookTok #bookreviews
@bookstodon

Worn Memory

#fisherboat #boat #harbor #decayed #blackandwhite #monochrome #worn #dark #loneliness #solitude #melnacholy #damaged
#photography #bnwphotography #blackandwhitephotography #boatphotography #monochromephotography #photomanipulation #photomanipulated
#jlbouzou

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

“They are alone together”*…

Andrew Trousdale and Erik J. Langer bridge the years between Robert Putnam‘s Bowling Alone and Jonathan Haidt‘s The Anxious Generation with a brief history of the trade-off between convenience and connection in America. From Zach Rauch’s introduction…

The Anxious Generation is best understood as a three-act tragedy. Act I begins in the mid-20th century, when new social and entertainment technologies (e.g., air conditioning and television) set in motion a long, gradual collapse of local community. Act II begins in the 1980s, as the loss of local community weakened social trust and helped erode the play-based childhood. Act III begins in the early 2010s, with the arrival of the phone-based childhood that filled the vacuum left behind.

This post, written by Andrew Trousdale and Erik Larson, goes deep into Act I. Andrew is a psychology researcher and human-computer interaction designer who is co-running a project on the psychological tradeoffs of progress. Erik is the author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, writes the Substack Colligo, and is completing the MIT Press book Augmented Human Intelligence: Being Human in an Age of AI, due in 2026. Together, they show how the isolation we experience today did not begin with smartphones but began decades earlier, as Americans, often for good and understandable reasons, traded connection for convenience, and place-based relationships for privacy and control.

Tracing these trade-offs across the twentieth century, Andrew and Erik help explain the problem of loneliness we face today, and offer some guidance for how we can turn it around and reconnect with our neighbors. Robert Putnam, who read a recent draft, described it as “easily the best, most comprehensive, and most persuasive piece on the contemporary social capital conundrum I’ve yet read.”…

Trousdale and Langer trace the social, cultural, economic, political, and technological forces that have played out from the the late 1940s to today. It is, at once, familiar and shocking. They conclude…

When we asked Robert Putnam what gives him hope, he pointed to history. In The Upswing, he reminds us that Americans faced a similar crisis before. The Gilded Age brought economic inequality, industrialization, and the rise of anonymous urban life. Small-town bonds gave way to tenements and factory floors. Trust collapsed. By the 1890s, social capital had reached historic lows — roughly where it stands today.

The Progressive reformers found this new world unacceptable, but they didn’t try to turn back the clock. Cities and factories were here to stay. Instead, they adapted, creating new forms of connection suited to their changed reality, from settlement houses for anonymous neighborhoods to women’s clubs that built networks of mutual aid. They didn’t reject modernity; they metabolized it, showing up day after day to create new institutions and communities suited to the industrialized world.

Decades ago Neil Postman observed in Amusing Ourselves to Death that we haven’t been conquered by technology — we’ve surrendered to it because we like the stimulation and cheap amusement. More recently, Nicholas Carr concludes in Superbloom that we’re complicit in our loneliness because we embrace these superficial, mediated forms of connection. Like Postman and Carr, the Progressive Era reformers understood where they had agency when technology upended their world. It isn’t in demanding that others fix systems we willingly participate in, nor is it in outright rejecting technologies that deliver real benefits — it’s in changing how we ourselves live with and make use of the tools that surround us.

There are already signs that people are willing to do this. In a small, three-day survey, Talker Research found that 63% of Gen Z now intentionally unplug — the highest rate of any generation — and that half of Americans are spending less time on screens for their well-being, and their top alternative activity is time with friends and family. And they found that two-thirds of Americans are embracing “slow living,” with 84% adopting analog lifestyle choices like wristwatches and paper notebooks that help them unplug. Meanwhile in Eventbrite’s “Reset to Real” survey, 74% of young adults say in-person experiences matter more than digital ones. New devices like the Light Phone, Brick, Meadow, and Daylight Computer signal a growing demand for utility without distraction.

Unplugging isn’t enough on its own. The time and energy we reclaim has to go toward building social connections: hosting the dinner party despite the hassle, staying for coffee after church when you’d rather go home, sitting through the awkward silence, offering or asking for help.

Ultimately, we can’t expect deep social connection in a culture that prioritizes individual ease and convenience. Nor is community something technology can deliver for us. What’s required is a change of culture, grounded in a basic fact of human nature: that authentic connection requires action and effort, and that this action and effort is part of what makes connection fulfilling in the first place.

We can form new rituals and institutions that allow us to adapt to technology, ultimately changing it to our liking. But it starts with the tools we use and the choices we make each day. If we all prioritize the individual comforts and conveniences we’ve grown accustomed to, no one else will restore the community we say we miss. No one else can. If we want deeper relationships and better communities than we have, we’re going to have to put more of our time, effort, and attention into the people around us.

History shows that we can adapt, building communities suited to changing times. The question is: Will we stay in and scroll? Or will we go out and choose one another?…

Eminently worth reading in full: “Scrolling Alone.”

In the spirit of the call for forward-looking determination, pair with “The Displacement of Purpose” from Peter Adam Boeckel (“If AI automates production, then humanity must automate compassion. Only then will progress remember what it was for.”)

[Image above: source]

* Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (in which he also observed: “People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.”)

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As we get together, we might spare a thought for Aldus Manutius; he died on this date in 1515. A printer and humanist, he founded the Aldine Press. In the books he published, he introduced a standardized system of punctuation and use of the semicolon. He designed many fonts, and created italic type (which he named for Italy).

source

And apropos the piece featured above, we might note that on this date in 1965 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” the first major hit for the Righteous Brothers, simultaneously reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in the US as well as the UK singles chart. The song was produced by Phil Spector (who had discovered the duo at a San Francisco show) for his own label, Philles Records. All the songs previously produced by Spector for Philles featured African-American singers; the Righteous Brothers were his first white vocal act– they had a vocal style, blue-eyed soul, that suited Spector.

https://youtu.be/03iSUjHaUxY?si=OkkrUiId1p3KkMHY

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

We talk about zero trust.
MFA.
Segmentation.
Defense in depth.

But we don’t talk enough about belonging.

#Cybersecurity #HumanRisk #Leadership #SecurityCulture #Loneliness #DigitalTrust #EmotionalSecurity #InsiderThreat #LimitlessCyber

https://youtu.be/Vt-GZAFLBHA?si=eqi3m8Tz7MjpfOSQ

How Technology and Loneliness are Interlinked - Technology and loneliness are interlinked, researchers have found, stoked by the ways we ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/technology/personaltech/technology-loneliness.html #mentalhealthanddisorders #computersandtheinternet #contenttype:service #mobileapplications #anxietyandstress #textmessaging #murthyvivekh #socialmedia #smartphones #loneliness

This is not satire as far as I can tell. I’m sure it will flop (though it’s only $99 which will help) but it’s part of a broader trend towards technosolutions for contemporary anomie. This is the feature of the GenAI landscape which I think critics are massively underestimating. I’m convinced the technology will facilitate a mass market product in this space beyond Replika’s current 25 million users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1hoEhfk4

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/07/technosolutionism-meets-anomie/

#anomie #Friendship #generativeAI #loneliness

"...even among pairs of twins matched on childhood family and current household social status, educational achievement, employment and employability, lonelier twins rated their social status as lower than their less lonely co-twin."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953624001412

#SES #SEC #status #socialstatus #loneliness #lonely #twins

3 Traits of The #LoneWolf #Empath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBEUDez--g
#traumabond

#Empaths are deep #feelers, mostly #introverted and many are also #lonewolves, meaning they carve their own path, are extremely #creative and prone to #loneliness and #addiction.

Tips for Cutting Social Media Use and Being Online in a Healthier Way - You don’t have to quit Instagram and TikTok cold turkey. Use these strategies — some prac... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/technology/social-media-mental-health-tips.html #mentalhealthanddisorders #computersandtheinternet #contenttype:service #murthyvivekh #unitedstates #socialmedia #loneliness

St. John of the Cross Novena, Day 5: Trust

Reading

In tribulation, immediately draw near to God with trust, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

Sayings of Light and Love, 66

Scripture 

Have mercy on me, God, men crush me;
they fight me all day long and oppress me.
My foes crush me all day long,
for many fight proudly against me.

When I fear, I will trust in you,
in God whose word I praise.
In God I trust, I shall not fear:
what can mortal man do to me?

All day long they distort my words,
all their thought is to harm me.
They band together in ambush,
track me down and seek my life.

You have kept an account of my wanderings;
you have kept a record of my tears;
are they not written in your book?
Then my foes will be put to flight
on the day that I call to you.

This I know, that God is on my side.
In God, whose word I praise,
in the Lord, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not fear:
what can mortal man do to me?

I am bound by the vows I have made you.
O God, I will offer you praise
for you rescued my soul from death,
you kept my feet from stumbling
that I may walk in the presence of God
and enjoy the light of the living.

Psalm 56

Meditation 

Oh, blessed tribulation, that sure sign that God is madly in love with you.

Tribulation is a word that is no longer part of our daily vocabulary. It appears in word puzzles and still makes its way into Hollywood film scripts, although it sounds more appropriate coming from the lips of the revered British actor Charles Laughton, whose King Herod once posed the legendary rhetorical question: “Why does the prophet visit me with worse than the tribulations of Job?”

Saint Teresa of Jesus understood what Saint John of the Cross meant when he was writing about tribulation because she had seen her fair share of it in her lifetime. Here’s just one example from Testimony 53 written in Seville, 8 November 1575:

On the octave day of All Saints I spent two or three very troublesome days over the remembrance of my great sins and because of some fears of my being persecuted that had no foundation, except that false testimony was going to be raised [She had been falsely accused before the Inquisition of Seville]. And all the courage I usually have for suffering left me. Although I wanted to encourage myself, and I made acts and reflected that this suffering would be very beneficial to my soul, all these actions helped me little. For the fear didn’t go away, and what I felt was a vexing war. I chanced upon a letter in which my good Father [Jerome Gracián, Discalced Carmelite and Apostolic Visitor] refers to what St. Paul says, that God does not permit us to be tempted beyond what we can suffer (1 Cor 10:13). That comforted me a lot, but it wasn’t enough. Rather, the next day I became sorely afflicted in seeing I was without him, since I had no one to whom I could have recourse in this tribulation. It seemed to me I was living in great loneliness, and this loneliness increased when I saw that there was no one now but him who might give me comfort and that he had to be absent most of the time, which was a great torment to me.

On the next night, while reading in a book a saying of St. Paul which began to console me, I was thinking of how present our Lord had previously been to me, for He had so truly seemed to be the living God. While I was thinking about this, He appeared in an intellectual vision, very deep within me, as though on the side where the heart is, and said: “Here I am, but I want you to see what little you can do without Me.”

I felt reassured right away, and all my fears were gone. While I was at Matins that same night, the Lord, through an intellectual vision so intense it almost seemed to be an imaginative one, placed Himself in my arms as in the painting of the fifth agony. This vision caused me great fear. For it was so clear, and He was so close to me that I wondered if it was an illusion. He told me: “Don’t be surprised by this, for My Father is with your soul in an incomparably greater union.”

This vision has so remained up till now. What I said of our Lord lasted more than a month. Now it is gone.

Now, we may not be falsely accused before the Inquisition, but in our daily lives, we see plenty of tribulation. And Saint Teresa makes it clear that if we are seeking to make love our ambition, to grow in that untiring love of which St. John of the Cross speaks, then we will be blessed with tribulation.

Blessed with tribulation?

“It is clear that since God wants to lead those whom He greatly loves by the path of tribulation—and the more He loves them the greater the tribulation—there is no reason to think that He despises contemplatives, for with His own mouth He praises them and considers them His friends.”  (Way 18:1)

But what if I don’t want to be a contemplative? 

For the faithful, this truly is not an option if we desire to be united with Christ in heaven, where we will be contemplatives for all eternity! St. Paul writes, “and we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit” (2 Cor 3:18).

The Catechism reminds us: 

Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he himself opens up his mystery to man’s immediate contemplation and gives him the capacity for it. The Church calls this contemplation of God in his heavenly glory “the beatific vision.”

Citing St. Cyprian, the Catechism continues:

How great will your glory and happiness be, to be allowed to see God, to be honored with sharing the joy of salvation and eternal light with Christ your Lord and God, . . . to delight in the joy of immortality in the Kingdom of heaven with the righteous and God’s friends. (CCC 1028)

To be able to contemplate Christ for all eternity, the tribulation is worth it.

We notice that a great Saint and Doctor of the Church like Our Holy Mother Teresa was not immune from tribulation and anxiety. She was suffering terribly: there were “very troublesome days” and fears of being persecuted. She had lost her courage, and every remedy, every action that normally helped in past situations didn’t help at all. She was stuck in her fears and left with what she calls a guerra desabrida… a rather unsavory war—fruitless, vexing, and pointless. Even reading a letter from the priest who meant more to her than any other friar in the world couldn’t console her; his advice was to read St. Paul, but she admitted that it  “comforted me a lot, but it wasn’t enough.”

Poor St. Teresa, she was really in emotional distress and in a spiritual bind. The next day she became even more upset because Father Gracián wasn’t there to encourage and console her in her anxiety. “I had no one to whom I could have recourse in this tribulation” and for her, the loneliness seemed to be the worst part.

St. John of the Cross says that it’s in times like these that we must “immediately draw near to God with trust” and that is exactly what St. Teresa did. She didn’t give up praying, seeking, and hoping, and she didn’t abandon God. Quite the opposite: she continued to draw near to God, even though He seemed distant or hiding. It seems that she may have had difficulty praying with peace, so she turned to spiritual reading instead.

Now, the Lord made himself known to St. Teresa at that moment through a mystical experience. However, that may not necessarily be the path the Lord chooses for each one of us. What St. John of the Cross explains is that if we draw near to God with trust, then we will receive “strength, enlightenment, and instruction.”

St. Elizabeth of the Trinity gives the following advice to ordinary folks like you and I for how best to draw near to God when troubled or anxious  in those moments that St. John and St. Teresa called “tribulation”:

You must build a little cell within your soul as I do. Remember that God is there and enter it from time to time; when you feel nervous or you’re unhappy, quickly seek refuge there and tell the Master all about it.

Ah, if you got to know Him a little, prayer wouldn’t bore you anymore; to me it seems to be rest, relaxation. We come quite simply to the One we love, stay close to Him like a little child in the arms of its mother, and we let our heart go  (Letter 123).

Prayer

O St. John of the Cross
You were endowed by our Lord with the spirit of self-denial
and a love of the cross.
Obtain for us the grace to follow your example
that we may come to the eternal vision of the glory of God.

O Saint of Christ’s redeeming cross
the road of life is dark and long.
Teach us always to be resigned to God’s holy will
in all the circumstances of our lives
and grant us the special favor
which we now ask of you.

Mention your request

Above all, obtain for us the grace of final perseverance,
a holy and happy death and everlasting life with you
and all the saints in heaven.
Amen. 

Let’s continue in prayer

Day 1 — Self-trust
Day 2 — Self-giving
Day 3 — Cleansing
Day 4 — Walking in love
Day 5 — Trust
Day 6 — Prayer
Day 7 — Humility
Day 8 — Eternal Silence
Day 9 — Silent love

The novena prayer was composed from approved sources by Professor Michael Ogunu, a member of the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order in Nigeria.

John of the Cross, St 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, rev. edn, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Teresa of Avila, St 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2003, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity volume 2: Letters from Carmel, Nash, A (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

All scripture references in this novena are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Joseph.

Let us unite in prayer

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