The Year of Loneliness: How to Stop Being Afraid of Being Without Others

Loneliness is an immutable and irrevocable part of every life. CBT psychotherapist Lily Grad speaks about this reality, which frightens many, without pretentiousness, simply, directly, vividly, and very sincerely, revealing numerous resources and possibilities hidden within it. The author is convinced that without learning to be alone, to endure oneself, it is impossible to build honest relationships with others.
In the first part of the book, the reader will find stories illustrating different types of loneliness. The author delicately and accurately describes the circumstances and reactions of a person who finds themselves in each of these complex situations, especially emphasizing the border where a natural state becomes a neurosis that hinders living freely and joyfully.
The second part is a sequence of 12 practices-steps that help honestly face one's own loneliness—and oneself. Instead of providing ready-made recipes, the author encourages the reader to explore their own unique loneliness and inhabit it, gaining inner freedom and psychological readiness to build healthy relationships.