How do you build collective psychological fitness in your workplace? Three core skills, empathy, attention, and compassion, are needed in order to create a safe and empowering space for meaningful conversations and connections during those moments.

In this article, I want to share some of the tools you can use to get immediate relief from the emotional pain of loneliness. The five tools listed below will help you restore connection within yourself and around you. The first four help you to reconnect with your mind, your emotions, your body and your spirit and the last one helps you to reconnect socially.

It is natural for us to want to run away from our emotional pain. Emotional pain is just like physical pain, we want to avoid feeling it. So, we adopt behaviors to avoid or cope with the pain. This article provides a list of behavioral signs I have observed in my clients (mid-line and senior managers) to cope with the emotional pain of loneliness.

It is the next public health epidemic. It is as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It brings heart disease, and significant mental health issues. It dramatically impacts your productivity at work, and the quality of your life at home. It is so important that the UK has appointed a minister to look after it. It is not food, nor a virus, nor a drug. And you may not even know you have it. So what is it? Have a read.