Interview about Lonely on CBC’s The Next Chapter
My conversation with the wonderful Shelagh Rogers aired on Monday, March 8th, on CBC Radio One. You can listen to the podcast by visiting The Next Chapter.
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Congratulations on this great exposure! I’ll definitely try to listen on the radio or catch the podcast.
Good luck with the interview.
Would you mind asking them for permission to put the podcast here on your blog? Then we can all listen to it afterwards
I’m going to try…am always challenged by things technological, though. Check back on Tuesday, and hopefully I’ll have the podcast up!
I called in sick today, bad cough. I never call in sick. Then I heard the CBC program about your book. Coincidence? I think not. I thought, wow, that’s me, that’s how I feel. Surrounded, yet lonely. What’s wrong with me? I hadn’t put a name on it before. I can’t wait to read the book.
I loved your interview on “The Next Chapter”…it will give you much needed exposure for your book and help others to realize they are not the only people who feel lonely…
Thanks — Making other lonely people feel less alone is my goal with this whole process.
thankyou emily for sharing this, i was beginning to think i might be a little crazy, but what you expressed in this interview described me to the letter. i am so curious as to what route has worked, what allowed you to make at least some changes. (i will read your book), but it is so important that people know they aren’t alone and that healing is possible.
thanx again, i know i am so ready for change. and feel absolutely encouraged!!!!!!
Hi, Emily,
Listened to the pod cast. It was great to hear your voice.
I managed to get a copy of “Lonely” and devoured it in less than a week. I couldn’t put it down. If I like a book, I usually read it out loud so I don’t miss one word of it. That’s what I did with your book.
Having suffered from loneliness since childhood, I didn’t think I would actually learn anything about the condition, but I did. So much information. My favourite parts though were your personal accounts and the people you interviewed.
You’re correct in stating that the book isn’t really a self help book although that’s where I found it in Chapters. The reason that it isn’t is because you’re honest and open in admitting that even though you are now in a loving relationship ( I’m so happy for you ) you still have this ongoing problem of loneliness. I don’t believe that anybody can understand that unless they have experienced it themselves.
The lack of connection with people that you talk about is my problem too. I’ve had it all my life and you’re the first person I’ve heard mention it (in my small circle anyway) so it makes me feel validated to know I’m not so weird.
I have to tell you that the inner child work you mention briefly in the chapter “Promises, promises” really did help to heal me in a huge area of my life. It had nothing to do with helping me connect with people, but it allowed me to “rescue” the little wounded girl hiding inside me who had no-one to stick up for her. I was able to bring her into my adult self and reclaim some of the joys of childhood. That aspect of my healing is a large part of the memoir I wrote for my family. Like you, I tried all sorts of things that didn’t work so I suppose what I’m attempting to say is that some things work for some people and some don’t. I had a giggle at your description of the anti-loneliness potion you tried. Fancy passing out! That’s hilarious, although I don’t suppose it was at the time. Laughing at yourself is great therapy though. I’ve had to do a lot of that, but only after the fact.
Anyway, thank you for a wonderfully written and insightful book.
I hear that you are in the process of writing a second book. Can you let us know what it is about, or is that still under wraps?
How is the church search going?
Take care of yourself—From a fellow traveler on this often rocky road of life. We’ll get there, don’t worry. As long as we keep sharing.
Haven’t been able to get the book yet, but hearing the interview, reading the comments to it and the blog actually put some spring in my step, now that I know I am not alone in feeling that way.
I was particularly sensitive to the blog entries on Volunteering, which is a thing I have tried over and over again, for the wrong reasons, and which left me feeling worse.
Thanks for writing the book.
I was adopted at birth and raised an only child. The funny thing is that I never felt lonely when I was young. It wasn’t until I married and had issues with my husband that I started feeling lonely. He was never there for me emotionally so when I left him I thought that the lonliness would end. I’ve been in a very good relationship now for over 5 years and even with my children, my fiancee, and my dog near me, sometimes I am overwhelmed by loneliness. Weird feeing when it does come over me. I will read your book so I can try to comprehend this feeling. It’s almost as though there is something missing but I can’t register what that is.
Hi … been meaning to write since I first read the article in Mcleans about your book. Just got around to buying the book and started to read it this past weekend. But more about that and me sometime later. I want to comment on your blog entry about the CBC broadcast.
I listened to the broadcast and so did my ex-girlfriend (we’re still close friends … just not “girlfriends” … any more). I didn’t know that she was listening to it and a few days later she dropped by my place on her way home from work. The conversation went something like …
Friend … “Did you hear the CBC broadcast with Emily White?”
Me … “Yes.”
Friend … “It was so you. Now that you know there is someone out there like you do you still feel lonely?”
The last sentence was done with her tongue in her cheek. She really does have a great sense of humour and she has a great knack with one liners that lift me up with laughter.
Sincerely hope you appreciate the joke as much as I did.
Later.