Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Of course, it's important to have deep, meaningful, connected relationships. But equally so, you want to have these engagements with weak ties, casual conversations that don't require a lot of bandwidth. And so that's good news for someone who's feeling lonely or withdrawn and doesn't have a lot to give when they're running on fumes. When you're at the

grocery store, have a short, brief conversation with someone in the aisle. Or when you're bagging your groceries, you're picking up your dry cleaning, have a chat with someone there. It can be very perfunctory and terse, but it will increase your sense of community because you will feel engaged in your surroundings. Another study did something similar, looked across eight countries.

grocery store, have a short, brief conversation with someone in the aisle. Or when you're bagging your groceries, you're picking up your dry cleaning, have a chat with someone there. It can be very perfunctory and terse, but it will increase your sense of community because you will feel engaged in your surroundings. Another study did something similar, looked across eight countries.

grocery store, have a short, brief conversation with someone in the aisle. Or when you're bagging your groceries, you're picking up your dry cleaning, have a chat with someone there. It can be very perfunctory and terse, but it will increase your sense of community because you will feel engaged in your surroundings. Another study did something similar, looked across eight countries.

It was a study done by the Harvard Business Review. And I found similar things that when there's a mix of social interactions with strong ties and weak ties. So, of course, conversations with weak ties, it increases your sense of well-being, happiness and connection. And so really, you're getting at connection through the back door in this situation.

It was a study done by the Harvard Business Review. And I found similar things that when there's a mix of social interactions with strong ties and weak ties. So, of course, conversations with weak ties, it increases your sense of well-being, happiness and connection. And so really, you're getting at connection through the back door in this situation.

It was a study done by the Harvard Business Review. And I found similar things that when there's a mix of social interactions with strong ties and weak ties. So, of course, conversations with weak ties, it increases your sense of well-being, happiness and connection. And so really, you're getting at connection through the back door in this situation.

Because when you hear about loneliness, you know the antidote is connection, community, fostering these things. But when you are experiencing that sense of loneliness that you and I have talked about, that gnawing sensation, you feel isolated, you feel alone. And also, I just want to mention the paradox of stress. When you are feeling a sense of stress, you feel isolated.

Because when you hear about loneliness, you know the antidote is connection, community, fostering these things. But when you are experiencing that sense of loneliness that you and I have talked about, that gnawing sensation, you feel isolated, you feel alone. And also, I just want to mention the paradox of stress. When you are feeling a sense of stress, you feel isolated.

Because when you hear about loneliness, you know the antidote is connection, community, fostering these things. But when you are experiencing that sense of loneliness that you and I have talked about, that gnawing sensation, you feel isolated, you feel alone. And also, I just want to mention the paradox of stress. When you are feeling a sense of stress, you feel isolated.

And yet you look around and everyone is feeling that too, based on the data, right? 21 people in a room of 30 are experiencing these things, and yet they feel alone in their experience. So we are experiencing all of these things, but we don't talk about it for lots of reasons. Blaming ourselves. We feel a sense of shame and guilt. And so conversation is really the antidote.

And yet you look around and everyone is feeling that too, based on the data, right? 21 people in a room of 30 are experiencing these things, and yet they feel alone in their experience. So we are experiencing all of these things, but we don't talk about it for lots of reasons. Blaming ourselves. We feel a sense of shame and guilt. And so conversation is really the antidote.

And yet you look around and everyone is feeling that too, based on the data, right? 21 people in a room of 30 are experiencing these things, and yet they feel alone in their experience. So we are experiencing all of these things, but we don't talk about it for lots of reasons. Blaming ourselves. We feel a sense of shame and guilt. And so conversation is really the antidote.

And we also know based on the data that one of your prior guests, Bob Waldinger, one of my colleagues from Harvard is the head of a study that has been running for 75 long years, the longest running study on happiness and found that of anything else, not money, not your wild travel stories, of all these things that people think are gonna make you happy, the quality of human relationships is the greatest predictor of your happiness.

And we also know based on the data that one of your prior guests, Bob Waldinger, one of my colleagues from Harvard is the head of a study that has been running for 75 long years, the longest running study on happiness and found that of anything else, not money, not your wild travel stories, of all these things that people think are gonna make you happy, the quality of human relationships is the greatest predictor of your happiness.

And we also know based on the data that one of your prior guests, Bob Waldinger, one of my colleagues from Harvard is the head of a study that has been running for 75 long years, the longest running study on happiness and found that of anything else, not money, not your wild travel stories, of all these things that people think are gonna make you happy, the quality of human relationships is the greatest predictor of your happiness.

And you don't meet a best friend overnight, right? Like you chat with your barista, you chat with someone at the grocery store, dry cleaning, the drugstore. And over time, it's one awkward hello after another, after another, until you kind of fall into friendships and relationships that one day could be part of this study. One of the greatest relationships of your life.

And you don't meet a best friend overnight, right? Like you chat with your barista, you chat with someone at the grocery store, dry cleaning, the drugstore. And over time, it's one awkward hello after another, after another, until you kind of fall into friendships and relationships that one day could be part of this study. One of the greatest relationships of your life.

And you don't meet a best friend overnight, right? Like you chat with your barista, you chat with someone at the grocery store, dry cleaning, the drugstore. And over time, it's one awkward hello after another, after another, until you kind of fall into friendships and relationships that one day could be part of this study. One of the greatest relationships of your life.

So the Surgeon General snapshot paints a bleak picture. It shows that parents are struggling and quite badly. In this snapshot of data, 50% of parents, almost 50% of parents say that they are overwhelmed with stress on most days. 65% of parents are lonely. 77% of single parents are lonely. And we know that from prior data, 75% of parents have parenting burnout.