How to Overcome Loneliness and the Deep Ache For a Relationship

How to Overcome Loneliness and the Deep Ache For a Relationship

From The New Truth by Kate Harlow

May 25, 2026 · 42 min · Season 3 · Episode 65

About this episode

Kate Harlow explores the true meaning of loneliness and how to reconnect with oneself and others.

There’s a kind of loneliness that no amount of busyness, success, dating apps or a wild girls night can touch. Most single women live with a subtle (or not so subtle) ache for partnership, and SO many married women - have the same ache with a man lying in the bed next to her. Loneliness is a universal feeling - and it lives inside of most humans when they are disconnected from the magnitude of what's inside. In this episode, Kate explores the true meaning of loneliness - and how to reconnect whether you're in partnership or not. Kate shares the difference between the longing for partnership and owning our desires, why so many women feel emotionally starved in today’s world, and how the deepest relationship you’ll ever have is the one you cultivate with yourself, your life, your purpose, your community and your heart. This episode is for the woman who: Feels a deep ache for partnership Wonders if love will ever happen for her Feels lonely even around other people Is tired of pretending she’s “fine” all the time Has built a full life, but still longs to share it Keeps making relationship mean something about her worth Wants to stop waiting for life to begin once love arrives Is…

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