Hope for the Lonely: On the Record

Do you have thoughts about loneliness and hope you’d like to share with others? I’m going to start posting non-anonymous Q&A’s about loneliness and hope here on my website and in my Hope for the Lonely email newsletter, and I’d love to include your ideas and experiences.

Here’s how to participate:

• Answer the “Hope for the Lonely On the Record Q&A” questions below.

• Email your answers and a short bio to me at charlotte@charlottedonlon.com

• Feel free to invite others to participate.

Hope for the Lonely: On the Record

1. How do you define loneliness?

2. What are some of your loneliness triggers?

3. Over the course of your life, when have you felt the loneliest?

4. How do you define hope?

5. What gives you hope in your loneliness?

6. Please share any thoughts about loneliness and/or hope that you’d like to add.

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Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website. Charlotte’s writing and work are rooted in noticing how art helps us belong to ourselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.