The Joy of SolitudeAn engaging, practical guide through the promises and paradoxes of solitude, offering science backed advice for getting the most out of your alone time and deepening your relationship with yourself and others. Solitude is part of the human experience. But just like other relationships, your relationship with solitude can be satisfying, intimate, and enhance your well being, or it can leave you wanting, stuck in a cycle of sadness, anxiety, or anger.