Lonely Girls’ Club

Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 years’ clinic

In late 2020, six months into the pandemic, there were a lot of things I was missing. I felt nostalgic for my commute to the office, watching strangers and

In December 2019, I anxiously awaited my Spotify Wrapped results, eager to know what they might reveal. I learned that I’d spent 44,000 minutes on Spotif

“Our first date was seven hours,” 37-year-old Haifa tells me. “It was a beautiful spring day and we walked along the river, stopping at a

Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year

Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year

Trigger warning: This article mentions the death of a sibling. When my younger sister suddenly passed away last October, I was overwhelmed by the support o

In the established cultural imagination, the single woman is still kind of a tragic figure. Her mother worries about her; her smug friends are always threa

There are a few words I’d use to describe recent years, ever since the pandemic that started in 2020. One of those words would definitely be ‘l

For somewhere around three months, usually longer, you are invisibly pregnant. Your stomach doesn’t yet betray the geyser of life involuntarily erupting

In retrospect, it was wild how quickly everything changed. Whether you saw the lockdown coming or were completely blindsided, the speed with which the foun

At one of the loneliest points in my life, I joined a friend and her daughter for a week’s break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. “You said you were lone

The Hebridean island of Eigg is home to one of the most isolated communities in the UK. What is it like to live an occasional, meandering ferry-ride away f

Thanks to a plethora of recent surveys and news stories on the topic, the loneliness epidemic among young people is finally getting the airtime it deserves

They spend most of the week in classrooms surrounded by 30+ other children and when they’re not at school, they’re at home in the company of family or

I’ve discovered that I’m very good at stumbling into relationships. Not entirely unconsciously, of course – it’s hard not to notice you've got

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Alexander (@fromsarahlex) on Dec 7, 2018 at 4:25am PST Loneliness has become one of the greatest challen