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Roz Savage
So.... I had just finished up my doctoral dissertation, and was looking forward to re-emerging into the daylight. And then.... coronavirus. I realised a) that a lot of people are struggling with enforced isolation, and b) I have something useful I can offer, being something of an expert on isolation after spending up to 5 months at a time alone on a rowboat in the middle of various oceans. So I am writing a book called The Gifts of Solitude, which will be published as an ebook on Amazon Kindle in April.
While I am working on this book, please be aware that I don't have time for much else. In order to be timely and useful, I need to get it out ASAP. I will be posting draft chapters on Medium.com under my name - see https://medium.com/@rozsavage.
If you have questions, challenges, or suggestions about solitude that you want to share as input to my creative process, please do.
This podcast was inspired by Roz’s new book, The Gifts of Solitude. The Amazon link (valid across all Amazon sites) is http://mybook.to/TheGiftsofSolitude. Please purchase, enjoy, and share the love! Roz would be most grateful if you can help to spread the word. If you’re on social media, here are some shareable posts to make this easy for you. Simply click on the link and share to your own channel.
For more about the book, check out www.thegiftsofsolitude.com.
To buy the book, the Amazon link (valid across all Amazon sites) is http://mybook.to/TheGiftsofSolitude.
About The Gifts of Solitude:
Roz Savage knows all about self-isolation. The most prolific female ocean rower in history, she has rowed – solo – across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, spending over five hundred days and nights alone at sea, often many hundreds of miles from the nearest human being.
Roz offers her hard-won wisdom to all who are feeling lonely or afraid during times of solitude. Based on her own struggles and breakthroughs at sea, along with tales of other individuals who have sought out or researched the impacts of loneliness, this book gives simple, practical, often humorous coping strategies for dealing with fear, helplessness, disorientation and self-doubt. When you can’t change your circumstances, you have to change your perspective.
With an attitude of acceptance and curiosity, you can learn not only to survive aloneness, but to thrive in it. Solitude offers unparalleled opportunities for self-awareness, personal growth, and purpose-finding that will stand you in good stead, no matter what the future may hold.
This podcast is part of a series related to Roz’s upcoming book, The Gifts of Solitude (https://www.thegiftsofsolitude.com/), and particularly relates to her article on Medium, The Fertile Void of Corona-Uncertainty. https://medium.com/@rozsavage/the-fertile-void-of-corona-uncertainty-fa5fe34c392. Sign up for Roz’s newsletter at https://www.rozsavage.com/
This podcast is part of a series related to Roz’s upcoming book, The Gifts of Solitude (https://www.thegiftsofsolitude.com/), and particularly relates to her article on Medium, The Fertile Void of Corona-Uncertainty. https://medium.com/@rozsavage/the-fertile-void-of-corona-uncertainty-fa5fe34c392. Sign up for Roz’s newsletter at https://www.rozsavage.com/
This podcast is part of a series related to Roz’s upcoming book, The Gifts of Solitude (https://www.thegiftsofsolitude.com/), and particularly relates to her article on Medium, The Fertile Void of Corona-Uncertainty. https://medium.com/@rozsavage/the-fertile-void-of-corona-uncertainty-fa5fe34c392. Sign up for Roz’s newsletter at https://www.rozsavage.com/
This podcast is part of a series related to Roz’s upcoming book, The Gifts of Solitude (https://www.thegiftsofsolitude.com/), and particularly relates to her article on Medium, The Fertile Void of Corona-Uncertainty. https://medium.com/@rozsavage/the-fertile-void-of-corona-uncertainty-fa5fe34c392. Sign up for Roz’s newsletter at https://www.rozsavage.com/
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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness-how-isolation-can-kill-you
http://www.economist.com/node/18226813
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https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/29/18511580/loneliness-co-living-coworking-friend-app-tribe-wework
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-longevity-files-a-strong-grip-pushups-what-actually-can-help-you-live-to-a-ripe-old-age/2019/09/27/e2cffb5c-da34-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html
https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2019/medical-cure-for-loneliness.html
https://www.prb.org/social-genomics/“
Roz interviews British Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo, who spent 12 years alone in a cave in the Himalayas, so she knows a thing or two about solitude and its gifts, and has some practical and timely advice about how we can endure present hardships. An account of this interview will be included in Roz’s upcoming book, #thegiftsofsolitude.
New website: https://www.thegiftsofsolitude.com/
Latest Medium article: https://medium.com/@rozsavage/the-gifts-of-coronavirus-feel-what-youre-feeling-3f4a88c9e6f
So.... I had just finished up my doctoral dissertation, and was looking forward to re-emerging into the daylight. And then.... coronavirus. I realised a) that a lot of people are struggling with enforced isolation, and b) I have something useful I can offer, being something of an expert on isolation after spending up to 5 months at a time alone on a rowboat in the middle of various oceans. So I am writing a book called The Gifts of Solitude, which will be published as an ebook on Amazon Kindle in April.