Shannon McLean

About

Maybe you can be in a room full of people and still feel completely alone. You want connection, but social situations feel exhausting or frightening, so you hold back, replay what you said for hours, and wonder why making friends seems so much easier for everyone else. Loneliness can creep in after a move, a loss, a season of putting everyone else first, or years of quietly keeping people at arm's length to stay safe. It doesn't mean something is wrong with you. Connection is both a need and a skill, and both can be rebuilt.