August 5, 2026

How to Put Yourself Out There

Nobody is going to knock on your door and hand you the life you want. You have to put yourself out there and become an active player in your own life.
May 26, 2026

How to Ask for Space from People You Love

Romantic, platonic, familial, or otherwise, clearing that space takes courage to ask for what we need.
May 14, 2026

Poems About New Beginnings for When You Need to Start Again

Starting anew can happen at any moment. Joy Sullivan shares her instructions for taking off.
March 30, 2026

Why Being Alone Is Good for You 

There are many benefits of solitude, but you have to give yourself the chance to sit there.
March 3, 2026

Why Being a Loner Helps You Make New Friends

By learning to get confident and comfortable in your own company, it’ll be easier to meet and talk to strangers, initiate plans, and make new friends, whether you’re moving to a new city or just facing a social dry spell.
January 30, 2026

Quotes About Feeling Alone to Remind Us We’re Each Steering Our Own Ship

Consider these quotes a chance to rub shoulders with unmet kindred spirits. 
January 23, 2026

Books on Traveling Alone to Feed Your Wanderlust

Stories to push you forward.
January 15, 2026

8 Easy, Affordable Ways to Support Local Businesses—and Why It’s Important

Shifting just a few purchases to locally owned stores makes a difference as we fight the good fight against mass production and megacorporations.
December 19, 2025

How to Spend Xmas Alone Without Feeling Lonely or Left Out

November 12, 2025

9 Books You Can Read in a Day

Wisdom, distilled.
November 7, 2025

How to Quit Social Media

Because life after social media is lighter, richer, and just more enjoyable
October 14, 2025

How to Enjoy Your Own Company

Do you like being with yourself? Learn why it’s important to learn to enjoy your own company—and five steps to help you get there.
August 25, 2025

Things To Do Alone in the Summer

Solo summer activities you’ll love—no matter your relationship status.
August 18, 2025

What To Do Instead of Social Media

Live what’s beyond the screen.
August 7, 2025

Scared of Traveling Alone: How to Deal with Solo Travel Anxiety

Don’t let your fear of traveling alone hold you back. These tips will help.
July 30, 2025

6 Ethical Tea Companies for Fair Trade Tea Bags & Organic Tea

Not to be a bummer, but even a seemingly harmless cup of tea is steeped in big business, environmental desolation, and capitalist exploitation.
July 23, 2025

How to Get Better at Doing Things Alone

When the presence (or absence) of others becomes the deciding factor for how you live your life, your life isn’t your own anymore.
July 15, 2025

Feeling Alone in a Relationship: It’s Not Always About the Other Person

The real reason so many people feel alone in a relationship.
July 9, 2025

5 Alternatives to Amazon for Books (and why I no longer buy books from Amazon)

Books shape how we see the world—and where we buy our books from literally funds the kind of world we’re creating. 
June 16, 2025

Living Alone as a Woman: Why Every Woman Should Live Alone at Least Once

Solitude isn’t loneliness—it’s liberation.
June 6, 2025

Solo Travel to Paris: Itinerary for Traveling to Paris Solo + 26 Things to Do Alone in Paris

Your all-in-one cheatsheet for solo travel to Paris.
May 28, 2025

Staying Focus-Driven: How Giuliana Mendoza Tunes Out the Noise & Focuses on Her Purpose

Staying focus-driven sometimes means staying misunderstood. 
May 23, 2025

What I Learned Traveling the World Alone Without My Partner

Without a travel partner, I forced myself to shake off my inhibitions, allowing myself to be vulnerable.
May 12, 2025

7 Books on Self-Awareness to Become a Better Person

Working on yourself is the most important work of your life.
April 29, 2025

21 Quotes for Traveling Alone

Your chest of inspirational delights for sometimes-weary travelers in our often-weary world.
April 16, 2025

Extroverts Can Be Loners, Too: How Solo Travel Taught Sarah Silvia to Love Spending Time Alone

“You can do more if you’re willing to be independent.”
April 3, 2025

Moving to a New City in Your 30s—Feeling Lonely in Your “Prime”

a true story of searching for fulfillment in new places, only to realize that home and contentment were always within.
March 10, 2025

Protecting Your Alone Time: Shelby DiNobile on Learning How to Prioritize Yourself

“Being alone can be worth a lot more than being in the wrong relationship.”
March 3, 2025

I Don’t Like Traveling Alone—But I Keep Doing It Anyway

Solo travel is liberating and frustrating. It’s helped me know myself better—and enjoy myself more. 
February 20, 2025

26 Best Bars in Providence: Insider Tips from a Native Rhode Island-er

I’ve tried them all—these are the best bars in Providence for friends, dates, and solo time.
February 18, 2025

Looking Inward: Why Shelby DiNobile Decided to Get Off Social Media & What He Learned 

“I needed to get away from all the distractions I had built around myself.”
February 13, 2025

Books for Existential Dread

In times of trouble, I need books.
February 10, 2025

How to Celebrate a Loner’s Valentine Day

February isn’t just for lovers—it’s for loners, too.
February 6, 2025

Embrace Being a Loner—Why February Is the Perfect Time

I used to find January and February the dullest months of the year. Now, they’re my most-savored weeks of respite. Especially February.
February 3, 2025

No Date? No Problem—A Guide to Dating Yourself in 2025

If there’s something you really want to do, why wait for a date?
January 29, 2025

9 Books on My 2025 Reading List

a memoir, fiction, and translated works
January 27, 2025

5 New Things I Want to Do Alone This Year

I’m not waiting for someone else to join me
January 22, 2025

How to Live a More Analog Life: 5 easy, cheap (or free) ideas

5 easy changes you can make now to embrace an analog lifestyle.
January 13, 2025

The 5 Best Books I Read in 2024

of the 17 I read, these are the crème de la crème
January 9, 2025

How to Get Over Yourself and Go to that Damn Wedding, Gloriously Solo

5 steps to harness your fear of going to weddings alone (and look hot while doing it)
December 18, 2024

Food Editor Ally Mitchell on the Power of Taking Risks Alone

December 16, 2024

How to Balance Solitude and a Social Life: A Dual Guide for Introverts & Extroverts

Toeing the line between introversion and extroversion.
December 11, 2024

In Defense of Laughing Alone

Your relationship with yourself is the longest you’ll ever have. You might as well make it a fun one.
December 9, 2024

The Anti-Gift Guide: What NOT to Buy This Holiday Season

Gifts that look good, feel good, and DO good.
November 4, 2024

How Heather’s Lonely Year at Uni Became the Springboard to Her Greatest Adventures

November 4, 2024

Accepting Your Fate (Finding Acceptance Alone)

May 29, 2024

The Problem with Shopping on Amazon Prime

Why are we still shopping on Amazon Prime? (Spoiler: You can’t have your Amazon package and #eattherich, too.)
May 20, 2024

Why Does It Feel Like You Have to Be Your Own Doctor?

May 14, 2024

Did This French Writer Just Reveal the Secret to Happiness?

plus, street art from Le Cannet
May 6, 2024

How to Stop Wanting Things

It’s not easy when the Internet has you in a chokehold.