Welcome back to Inside Personal Growth! We have Dr. Bella DePaulo joining us today featuring her book Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life.

Bella is a social psychologist, a Harvard PhD with more than 150 scholarly publications. She is a leading expert on single life, and has been described by the Atlantic as America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.

Her TEDx talk, “What no one ever told you about people who are single,” has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. She has bylines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, the Atlantic, Time magazine and many more. Then her 2023 article, “Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life,” was published in an academic journal though according to Bella, she wrote it in an engaging and jargon-free way so readers won’t have to be academic to enjoy it.

“Single at Heart” has always been Bella’s term for people who love being single – for those whose single life is the most meaningful, fulfilling, authentic, and psychologically rich life. Her latest book Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life is all about that. In this book, Bella shares what she’s learned as well as the stories of others, in the process inspiring and fueling a movement of people standing up for what is right for them and thriving because of it.

If you’re interested and want to learn more about Dr. Bella, you may visit her website here.

Thanks and happy listening!

 

You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transciption (not edited) of the interview.

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