Feeling Lonely?
Your Path to Real Connection
$45.00
Loneliness isn’t just an uncomfortable feeling — it’s a real health risk, linked to higher rates of heart disease, stroke, dementia, and early death, on par with smoking. Retirement, the loss of a spouse or close friends, family living at a distance, and health changes all strip away the social structures you once relied on without thinking about it.
Most people sense loneliness is a problem. Few realize it’s a health issue. Fewer still know where to start rebuilding real connection. That’s what this course is for.
Feeling Lonely? is a four-session structured course that walks you from understanding loneliness as a health issue to a written, dated, actionable plan for real connection — grounded in current research and a validated self-assessment
Each session comes with a substantive handout you work through on your own, at your own pace. The material is honest, practical, and direct — designed for people like you who are planning to age better and age well.
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About mary l. flett, phd
Dr. Mary is a psychologist with 30 years of clinical experience in aging and later life. She is the creator of the Five Pillars of Aging framework and shares her knowledge and experience through these self-paced courses, in her long-running blog on aging, and as a national speaker. Now retired from private practice, she consults with non-profits and policy advocates from her home in the Bay Area. Learn more and explore the full range of topics in her Lecture Library at drmaryflett.com
Take a look at what you’ll get . . .
SESSION 1
Understanding Loneliness as a Health Issue
Learn the real physical and mental health risks, why loneliness hits differently after 60, and take a validated self-assessment (the UCLA Loneliness Scale).
SESSION 2
Building and Maintaining Social Connections
Discover where to meet people who share your interests, how to rekindle old friendships, and exactly what to say — includes practice scripts and prompts to help you get the conversation started.
SESSION 3
Quality Over Quantity in Relationships
Map your inner, middle, and outer circles of connection, learn the four levels of conversation depth, and practice moving from surface talk to real substance.
SESSION 4
Creating Your Personal Connection Plan
Build a concrete, dated action plan for new connections, deepening existing relationships, and reconnecting with family and old friends.
Build a concrete, dated action plan for new connections, deepening existing relationships, and reconnecting with family and old friends.
Built Around One Central Question:
It’s easy to assume that if you’re lonely, you should just “get out more.” But loneliness after 60 is rarely solved by more activity alone — it’s solved by depth and consistency in the relationships you already have, and the courage to build new ones on purpose. That question — who do I actually let in, and how often — runs through every session of this course.
