INSPIRATION FOR INTROVERSION
For introverts, being socially healthy might look a little different but is equally as important.
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How’s Your Social Health?
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of human connection for our well-being. Research has consistently shown that close relationships contribute to our immunity, mental health, and overall longevity.
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Isolation Starves Your Brain
A recent study from MIT reveals that both hunger and isolation activate the same area of the brain linked to craving. Just as hunger signals the need for food, loneliness acts as a cue for the essential need for connection.
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Make Social Health a Priority
What is social health and how can you make it a priority? Kasley encourages readers to reflect on their social contacts, relationships, and sense of community, and then develop a plan to strengthen their social connections.
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7 Tips for Spending the Holidays Alone
Spending the holidays alone can be tough, but there are ways to take care of your social well-being and make the most of the situation.
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How to Strengthen Your Social Muscles
Social health, an essential yet often overlooked dimension of well-being, can be improved through simple habits. Research reveals five evidence-based ways to strengthen your social muscles and cultivate healthy connection habits
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Social Wellbeing During a Pandemic
In this conversation, we discuss: loneliness stats in the pandemic, the importance of relationships on our physical health, our experiences with loneliness and connection, Kasley’s public health research on social health, chronic vs. situational loneliness, why more friends is not the answer to loneliness, the shifting needs of social capital, and the future of loneliness and connection with physical distancing.
HEAR IT HERE | Conversations that Don’t Suck Podcast
Addressing Loneliness in a Time of Social Distancing
In this helpful episode, Kasley Killam, a social scientist by training, a strategist by practice, and a community connector at heart, offers advice for preserving your mental health while avoiding physical proximity both in the here and now and in the future.
HEAR IT HERE | Someone to Tell it To Podcast
Social Health and Staying Connected During COVID-19 Physical Distancing
This podcast features conversations on all things wellness, impact, and leadership with friends who are using their voices and platforms to cultivate compassion, creativity, and change.
HEAR IT HERE | Tiffany & Yu Podcast
COVID-19, Isolation, Loneliness and Your Mental Health
Kasley Killam, joins for a conversation about loneliness, and isolation during this trying time and how we can protect our mental health even when we may not be able to connect physically with others. In this conversation we cover her suggestions on how to prevent loneliness, and we dig into what isolation is, how it’s different than loneliness and why both impact us as humans so much.
HEAR IT HERE | Stigma Podcast
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Social Wellness Over the Holidays
Got the Holiday Blues? For this Self-Care Sunday, join Kasley with Koko AI for a crash course: Social Wellness Over the Holidays.
WATCH IT HERE | Tumblr x Koko
