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Essential companion workbook to Lonely AF, helping you open the truth and heal from your loneliness

Lonely AF: A Therapist's No-BS Guide to Feeling Less Alone cracks open the truth about your loneliness-and this handbook helps you on your journey to building authentic connections. Within these pages, insight turns into action, awareness turns into embodiment, and healing becomes something you actually feel-not just something you read about. This workbook steps through the HEART Method to better manage loneliness-not as a passive reader, but as an active participant in your own healing. You write. You reflect. You pause. You get honest. You dig into your emotional landscape with tools, practices, and prompts that hold space for both your pain and your power.

In this book, readers will discover:

  • What you've been hiding, and the patterns you inherited
  • The stories you've been living, and whether they still serve you
  • Tools to regulate your nervous system, so that you can safely connect with parts of you that have been waiting to be seen and heard
  • The real, raw, and often overwhelming nature of this type of work, and how to recognize and pause when you need to

Take a breath. Hold it for a second. Now let it out slowly. You're here. That matters. You matter. In the pages of this workbook, let's begin-together.

Essential companion workbook to Lonely AF, helping you open the truth and heal from your loneliness

Lonely AF: A Therapist's No-BS Guide to Feeling Less Alone cracks open the truth about your loneliness-and this handbook helps you on your journey to building authentic connections. Within these pages, insight turns into action, awareness turns into embodiment, and healing becomes something you actually feel-not just something you read about. This workbook steps through the HEART Method to better manage loneliness-not as a passive reader, but as an active participant in your own healing. You write. You reflect. You pause. You get honest. You dig into your emotional landscape with tools, practices, and prompts that hold space for both your pain and your power.

In this book, readers will discover:

  • What you've been hiding, and the patterns you inherited
  • The stories you've been living, and whether they still serve you
  • Tools to regulate your nervous system, so that you can safely connect with parts of you that have been waiting to be seen and heard
  • The real, raw, and often overwhelming nature of this type of work, and how to recognize and pause when you need to

Take a breath. Hold it for a second. Now let it out slowly. You're here. That matters. You matter. In the pages of this workbook, let's begin-together.

Über den Autor

Sylvia Kalicinski, PhD, LMFT, is a therapist, speaker, and host of The Dr. Sylvia K Show podcast. A former Lead Clinician at Mount Sinai Medical Center, she has over twenty-one years of experience working with trauma, emotional isolation, and relational wounds. With advanced training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, certified in MBSR and EMDR, and holding a PhD in Family Therapy, she brings a warm, grounded, no-BS approach to reframing and healing loneliness.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION xi

CHAPTER 1 LONELINESS HURTS 1

CHAPTER 2 WE'RE NOT HARD-WIRED TO BE ALONE 17

CHAPTER 3 LONELY IN YOUR OWN FAMILY 25

CHAPTER 4 THE ACHE OF WHAT YOU NEVER GOT 37

CHAPTER 5 INHERITING MORE THAN EYE COLOR 45

CHAPTER 6 THE DRAMA TRIANGLE 53

CHAPTER 7 HEALING YOUR INNER CHILD 61

CHAPTER 8 ADDICTED TO THE STRESS 71

CHAPTER 9 COMPARISON IS A THIEF-AND A LIAR 77

CHAPTER 10 RECLAIMING YOUR TRUE SELF 85

CHAPTER 11 YOUR BRAIN IS TRYING TO HELP (BUT IT'S FREAKING OUT) 91

CHAPTER 12 YOUR INNER VOICE NEEDS A REBOOT 101

CHAPTER 13 SAYING THE HARD STUFF OUT LOUD 109

CHAPTER 14 SHAME, BLAME, AND THE WORDS THAT DISCONNECT US 117

CHAPTER 15 BUILDING YOUR PEOPLE PUZZLE 125

CHAPTER 16 COME HOME TO YOURSELF 133

APPENDIX: WHEN THERAPY ISN'T ACCESSIBLE: REAL TOOLS FOR REAL LIFE 141

REFERENCES 151

INDEX 155

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Ratgeber
Thema: Partnerschaft & Beziehungen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781394382569
ISBN-10: 1394382561
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kalicinski, Sylvia
Hersteller: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 186 x 236 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Sylvia Kalicinski
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2026
Gewicht: 0,336 kg
Artikel-ID: 134598739

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