Podcasts Culture The Positive Mind Encore Episode: Finding Home: It's a Feeling

Encore Episode: Finding Home: It's a Feeling

Published: July 25, 2021, 4 p.m.

b'The feeling of home is as universal as it is personal. Home can be a place of safety and refuge, or chaos and instability. No matter which, home is the place you identify with in some way, it carries meaning, memories and shapes your identity.\\n\\nHomesickness is a powerful feeling that something just isn\'t right, coupled with a longing for things to be stable, predictable, familiar and safe. But, it is a fact of life that everybody has to leave home; how a person manages that stress can say a lot about their relationship with themself and their ability to take a sense of "home" with them wherever they go. \\n \\n"It\'s the mysterious and universal feeling of home that seems to root us in our very being, providing a shelter for those days and times when all seems lost." Kevin and Niseema talk about how homesickness can lead to depression, a sense of being lost, rootless and adrift.'