How Running Can Combat Loneliness

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Anyone looking for more reasons to run—or who wants more joy and connections in life—should listen to this episode. Guests Robert Waldinger, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School + co-author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, and Stephanie Diamond, a mom who formed deep friendships through running, join hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin to share: -how strong of a stressor loneliness is; -the power of casual interactions; -why group runs and running retreats serve introverts well; -how a running group saved one mom whose spouse was stationed overseas; and, -the benefits of running-related social media. Before Dr. Waldinger joins around 6:05, empty-nester, single-mom Amanda shares how her posse of running pals alleviates her loneliness. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Find your favorite: Save 15% on any full-price purchase w/ code TOPOAMR2024 at topoathletic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A big thanks to TOPO Athletic for its continued support of another mother-runner.
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0:17.7	topo amr 2024. more. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boensche. I'm joined by Amanda Loud and hello Amanda.
0:41.0	Hi sir, how are you?
0:43.0	Good, good.
0:44.7	So we are going to, I'm going to introduce the topic far earlier than I typically do because I want
0:49.4	you to talk about your personal experience with this topic.
0:53.0	Sure.
0:54.0	Yes, so we're talking today about how running can combat loneliness.
0:58.9	And in a way, that's the cornerstone of all things another mother runner, you know, that connections, those connections that running fosters and allows to flourish.
1:08.0	And so we have two guests. First a doctor who has spent decades studying happiness. yes such things joyfully exist, and who co-authored
1:15.8	a renowned book on the lessons learned from that long-running study, then a quote-unquote
1:20.8	everyday mother runner who has found that running helped her overcome
1:23.8	loneliness and even PTSD which sprang from her husband being stationed overseas.
1:29.2	So Amanda the reason why this topic resounds with you and why I chose you as my co-host for this is because
1:37.0	You very much rely on your cadre of running friends there in Maryland so much so that you when you moved away
1:47.2	you ended up moving back to them so so talk about talk about those people that
1:52.0	you run with in Maryland and your experience
1:54.6	leaving them in that stuff.
1:56.5	Yeah, I mean I think I think part of it is just my stage of life right I'm an
2:02.3	empty nester and I'm a single woman and so I don't have people in my home and so I really rely on my community. And so when I was in Colorado and I left that community and I did have a one kid still
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