This is a talk I recently gave to one of the alumni groups for the incredible Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, which I completed in 2023. The topic of loneliness is one I ponder fairly frequently, being prone to spells of it that I can only describe as mental vertigo. But, as the talk demonstrates, there is a special quality within loneliness that we can learn to alchemize, and that can offer us unexpected paths to the connection we all want and deserve.