Thrive Solo The One Where I Talk To Queen Of The Singles & Author, Bella DePaulo - Part 2
This week’s episode is Part 2 of my conversation with Bella DePaulo.
Bella DePaulo, PhD, is the leading expert on single life and has been described by The Atlantic as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” Bella coined the term ‘single at heart’, and her new book, Single At Heart, comes out on 5th December 2023. She is the author of Singled Out and How We Live Now, among other titles; has written the “Living Single” blog for Psychology Today since 2008; and has been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, The Atlantic, and many others. She has appeared on shows including The Today Show and Good Morning America. She has been interviewed on NPR , as well as on podcasts by CNN, The Atlantic, and others.
Bella’s TEDx talk, “What no one ever told you about people who are single,” has been viewed more than 1.6 million times.
In Part 2 of this interview about Bella’s new book, Single At Heart, topics that we cover are:
- how our preoccupation with loneliness has obscured the joys and wonders of solitude;
- how loving solitude is linked with better psychological health, and how it can be fulfilment and contentment for the single at heart;
- how solitude for Bella means that she can think with her whole mind and feel with her whole heart;
- how the single at heart tend to have ‘the ones’ instead of ‘the one’;
- the idea of being open to all sorts of relationships, including spiritual figures, nature, or pets;
- how children can actually benefit from having a single at heart parent;
- how singles can still have children in their life in the form of nieces, nephews, students and beyond;
- asexuality, and how a significant number of single at heart people are asexual;
- how during her research, Bella found that people who are single at heart tend to savour the simple joys in life;
- how, despite what people may think, the long-term single actually enjoy their older years more than those who have been long-termed coupled;
- the shocking research that shows that people simply do not believe it when single people ‘claim’ to be happy;
- the most unexpected finding that Bella discovered about those who are single at heart.
Check out Bella’s website:
https://belladepaulo.com/
Buy Bella’s new book, Single At Heart (Amazon US):
https://www.amazon.com/Single-Heart-Power-Rewards-Uncoupled/dp/1954641281/?tag=wwwbella
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