He gave an example of a young woman he once accompanied who felt ostracised at work. “She felt useless and wanted to prove something to herself,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We started climbing but it was a tough trek as the weather was really hot and we were sweating a lot. There were moments she wanted to give up but I told her, ‘If you quit now and can’t get over this mountain how will you handle anything else in life?’. I kept encouraging her.”<\/p>\n
After they made it all the way he said she sent him a long message of thanks describing her inner journey and expressing her gratitude.<\/p>\n
“The pace of life is just too fast these days. People face pressure from work, relationships and family expectations,” he said. “I think my clients are mostly people who feel a void in their relationships or have suffered a setback.”<\/p>\n
Human connection is a necessity but, in a society grappling with loneliness across generations, it has now also become a commodity.<\/p>\n
Back in her little Beijing flat, Yang is feeling more comfortable now that Yingwei has sorted out her problem of making the air conditioner work properly.<\/p>\n
“It’s good to have someone around when you need it, someone you can share your innermost thoughts with,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I did struggle with loneliness but that’s been resolved now. I’m quite happy.<\/p>\n
“I can’t lose Yingwei and the others. They’ve all got a good heart.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He gave an example of a young woman he once accompanied who felt ostracised at work. “She felt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}