Statistics show that about 37 million Americans live alone. While living alone can look quiet from the outside, that quiet ...

Natalie Nixon, PhD, is a creativity strategist, global keynote speaker, author of The Creativity Leap and CEO of Figure 8 Thinking. When was the last time you spent time with yourself? In complete ...

Solitude gets a bad rap, but it can be rejuvenating. While solitude often gets a bad rap, spending time alone can come with plenty of benefits. As sociologist Anna Akbari suggests, solitude can be ...

Here’s how to tell if you’re truly good at being alone. Being a lone wolf isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some individuals enjoy the experience of “positive solitude,” which represents the distinction ...

By Venerable Gyaltsen Samten There was a time when life began to draw me away from worldly concerns, and i recognised this ...

RECENTLY, I was walking alone on a quiet, winding trail. The path was hard to follow and slick with snow. The sun felt warm on my face. As I trudged uphill, I missed my partner, but felt grateful to ...

I recently got back from a week of solitude in a house off Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts. I was there to focus on finishing my book of short stories without distraction, conversations, emails, ...

Bill Gates is known for his solitary “think weeks.” The painter Georgia O’Keeffe often spent days alone walking and working at her ranch in New Mexico. And the poet Emily Dickinson wrote often about ...

I keep seeing articles about the “epidemic of loneliness,” suggesting that being alone is unnatural and even a kind of torture. But loneliness is just another name for solitude, and solitude is ...