Kelly McGonigal
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first heard Jul 2026
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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026
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And you can start to feel really alone.
And what most people don't recognize is that is your, just like when your heart is pounding, it's your body trying to give you energy to act.
When you feel lonely, that's your brain and your body trying to get you to connect.
It is making you hungry.
for support, for connection, for allies, for teamwork and cooperation.
And so it produces like a hunger for social contact and community.
And too often people feel that loneliness and what they think is it's because I'm alone, it's because no one understands, it's because I'm the only one.
And they mistake what the signal is and they tell themselves a story that actually makes them further withdraw.
So that's another type of like stress signal that when you understand what's happening in your biology, you can embrace it and say, this is a sign to reach out.
Yeah.
Often the, you know, it's interesting.
I mean, this is sort of speaking more broadly as a psychologist, I often find that
the beliefs that people tell themselves that are most painful are almost always, it's just telling you what you care about.
Like when you're telling yourself a story about being alone and lonely, what you're actually revealing is like, you know,
people care about you and you need to reach out.
Like you need your people.
You need your community.
They aren't stupid.
If nobody cared about you, you wouldn't actually experience a desire for community and contact.
The brain is very interesting.
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