Insight into our new world of loneliness that offers solace hope and solutions. Even before
2020 chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public
health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms from
enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference and it can have
devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely
Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experiences of loneliness to discover its roots
and to show how we can take steps to find comfort and connection. Dr. Nobel brings together
many voices from pioneering researchers to leaders in business education the arts and
healthcare to lonely people of every age background and circumstance. He discovers that the
pandemic isolated us in ways that were not only physical and that at its core a true sense
of loneliness results from a disconnection to the self. He clarifies how meaningful
reconnection can be nourished and sustained. And he reveals that an important component of the
healing process is engaging in creativity a powerful opportunity he shows us can be accessed
by all. Supportive and clear-eyed this is the book we will take into our new normal and rely
on for years to come.
