How to live alone

Datshiane Navanayam speaks to two women who research what happens to our thoughts, feelings and behaviours when we speak many languages. To what extent do we have a “mother tongue” – and what happens if we stop using it?Dr Aneta Pavlenko is a Ukrainian-American linguist who looks ...  Show more

Ella Al-Shamahi talks to women in Switzerland and the UK about how job sharing can boost a career and bring many benefits to both work and home life.Irenka Krone-Germann is Swiss and has written several books about job-sharing and part-time working. She co-founded the information ...  Show more

What can we learn about loneliness, and how to avoid it, from two countries in two different continents? As Sophia Smith Galer and Scaachi Koul continue their quest for true women’s wellbeing, this time they’re exploring social connections from a global perspective. They hear fro ...  Show more

Living alone can be liberating, maddening, joyful ... lonely.  It also might feel very different today than it did several months ago.
This episode features stories from people who live alone, telling us how they are doing right now.

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It’s impossible to deny that the U.S. has a serious loneliness problem. One 2018 report by t ...

How do you handle being pressured into a relationship you don’t want and why does society stigmatize women who choose to be single?At times society tends to be outspoken when it comes to seeing people engaging in different life choices and that includes being single. It seems as ...  Show more