A loneliness expert reveals the one question that prompts rewarding connections

Monika Jiang shares what we need to unlearn to recenter our relationships, how to create systems of mutual care, and how to resolve conflict before it happens. 

When Monika Jiang set out to explore modern loneliness she asked a radical question: What if our experience of loneliness is our path back to each other? She took the leap—leaving her role as the head of Curation and Community at The House of Beautiful Business—with the intent that she’d continue pursuing it if others felt similarly. Her affirmation came at her first event, where a participant wrote this in their “lonely letter” . . .