{"id":110075,"date":"2021-12-02T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110075"},"modified":"2021-12-02T21:56:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:56:57","slug":"ask-the-experts-at-kidspeace-blog-when-is-being-lonely-not-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110075","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Experts at KidsPeace blog: When is being lonely not normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s normal to feel lonely at some point in your life.\u00a0 But when should we be concerned that what we\u2019re feeling is NOT normal &#8212; that\u00a0<strong>we\u2019re TOO lonely<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>On the latest post on the award-winning \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidspeace.org\/feeling-lonely\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AsktheExpertsatKidsPeace blog<\/a>, just in time for the holidays, clinician\u00a0<strong>Jessica Keefe<\/strong>\u00a0notes that the stress and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic can contribute to loneliness, and she offers advice on\u00a0<strong>breaking out of that cycle and engaging others<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read her advice and tips from other KidsPeace experts at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidspeace.org\/ask-the-experts-at-kidspeace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kidspeace.org\/ask-the-experts-at-kidspeace\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information Provided By:<br \/>\nRobert Martin<br \/>\nDirector of Communications<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s normal to feel lonely at some point in your life.\u00a0 But when should we be concerned that what we\u2019re feeling is NOT normal &#8212; that\u00a0we\u2019re TOO lonely? On the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask the Experts at KidsPeace blog: When is being lonely not normal?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/feeling-lonely.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}