The Simple Cure for Loneliness | Baya Voce | TEDxSaltLakeCity

Baya Voce is the host of "The Art of Connection", a web series looking to experts from across the globe on how to the live your most fulfilled life. In this TEDx talk, Baya reveals a simple tool you can start using today to create more happiness, fulfillment, and connection.

Baya's business journey started as a cast member on MTV's The Real World where her interest in relationships was nurtured. She transformed her TV exposure into an entrepreneurial adventure, learning early on how the power of one strong connection can transform your life and career. Her inherent belief that the quality of your relationships equals the quality of your life and that your network is your net worth, led her to her interest in connection, community, and relationships. For the past decade she has studied connection in three pillars: connection with yourself, your partner, and your community. She is a Dating and Relationship Coach, founder of Secret SLC, co-founder of Womenpreneurs and hosts a monthly segment on ABC as Utah's Relationship Specialist. Baya is a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, studies Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, and Body Language, and mentors under intimacy and relationship experts.

[trevgeasley]

Anyone who is genuinely lonely doesn't go to Europe with their friends. Genuinely lonely people go to bed and hope tomorrow will be better.

[ahiatskarks]

This lady doesn’t know what she is talking bout, loneliness is when you can’t connect to anyone but feel the strong desire to have some emotional support, loneliness is when you don’t have friends or family, loneliness is when even if you have friends, you feel left out and betrayed staying with them. Loneliness is missing human interaction to the point where you feel something is wrong with you, loneliness is when your self worth is measured by how important are you to others, Loneliness is the suffocating feeling of drowning in your emotions, hoping for someone to save you but knowing that no one will!

[roryxo]

Her cure to loneliness is... Talk to your friends like wtf the reason why I'm lonely is I have no friends lmao

[IamStereotype]

The way to cure lonliness... is to not be lonely *audience claps*

[adamsczech]

She was lonely for 10 minutes and thinks she knows it all...i came here depressed, now im depressed and pissed off...

[KYRAP]

"Lonely? Easy, get Friends."
This is like saying "don't be sad, be happy" to a depressed person.

[theodoreroosevelt]

Loneliness IS when you start lying to your colleagues that you've seen some friends during the weekend while you just spent two days alone.
loneliness is NOT going to the south of France with a bunch of friends
Update 2020: loneliness IS when you go through weeks without using your voice or receiving any text message during lockdown.

[Nuti]

It's like when you tell someone about your country where millions of people suffer from hunger and they respond "Oh yes, I know what you're talking about. I also experienced hunger, I forgot to bring my lunch to work the other day and I was starving"

[robindeanna]

She reminds me of all of the disappointing therapists I have encounter throughout my life.

[musfiqurkashem]

YouTube recommended this, they know I am lonely, but I am having a great time reading the comment section and knowing there are many people who struggle just like me. Didn't even bother watching, just went straight to the comments lol

[aprilthomas]

Solution to loneliness: Have friends. Got it. Thanks for the revelation.

[michealpadraigpriomhuaduin]

I finally understand what people mean when they talk about privilage. Like, she may have her issues in life, but it ain't loneliness.

[williamg]

Cure for loneliness according to her:
- Have friends
- Have friends you spend Monday nights with
- have friends you drink rosé with
- Have friends you go to Paris with
- Have friends you can have long French dinners with
- Have friends
Cure for loneliness thanks

[Abhishekkumar-stxr]

This Ted talk reminds me when barney said "whenever I feel sick I stop being sick and be awesome again"

[zigivigi]

I mean she has a partner, bunch of friends, travelling here and there, eating in Paris and taking about loneliness. is this some kind of joke going here??

[mossymapleleaf]

this isn't a ted talk this is her talking about her amazing life like the amount of privilege coming from this video is tremendous

[florine]

Everyone in the comment section should become friends

[RobertA-hqvz]

This talk is about how to maintain and strengthen your connections. Good in itself but does nothing to help those with limited or no connections.

[shaniqualevandre]

I couldn't even finish listening to this. She *has* close friends, a significant other, and family. What about those of us who are truly lonely, and don't want to be? No close friends, no partner, no close family members? I'd love to hear someone talk about the "cure for loneliness", when you've done everything you can think of to meet new people, when your heart is open wide and you don't have any fear of intimacy, yet true intimate relationships seem to evade you most of your life?

[maleficara]

Hot Take: This is actually a Ted Talk about how to troll the lonely.