170. The Grieving Brain: An Interview with Mary-Frances O’Connor
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Whether you are on a grief journey that feels never-ending, or you’re trying to figure out how to support someone who’s currently grieving, you can benefit from hearing a variety of angles on grief. This week, author and leader in the field of complicated grief Mary-Frances O’Connor shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens to our grieving brains.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 170, The Grieving Brain, an interview with Mary |
| 0:07.2 | Francis O'Connor. Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven |
| 0:15.7 | process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly |
| 0:23.0 | look forward to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, |
| 0:30.5 | Krista St. Germain. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Listen, please, please listen to this episode. |
| 0:39.4 | It is so good. I'm recording the intro after the interview is already completed, as I usually do. |
| 0:46.1 | And I just love Mary Frances O'Connor. I love her book, which is called The Grieving Brain, |
| 0:52.5 | the surprising science of how we learn from love and |
| 0:54.9 | loss. I love it so much that when I do my advanced certification for coaches who want to learn more |
| 1:02.4 | about coaching grief, everyone is going to be getting a copy of this book. It is just that good. |
| 1:07.9 | So I loved my conversation with her. I think you're going to benefit so much |
| 1:11.5 | from a variety of angles. So I hope you love it too. Also, two things I want to mention to you. |
| 1:17.3 | One, send me a little energy, a little good mojo as you listen to this because on the day that |
| 1:23.6 | this releases, my daughter will be heading off on her three-month adventure for |
| 1:30.0 | university in Costa Rica, which, of course, it's my baby leaving. And so I've talked about this |
| 1:36.6 | before. I just keep making space for myself to feel all the feelings. I'm not trying to make |
| 1:41.8 | myself feel any differently than I do. And I know a lot of |
| 1:45.1 | you are out there going through similar things as college starts, as school starts, as you're doing |
| 1:50.6 | things without your person that maybe you've never done and you're watching your kids do things |
| 1:54.9 | without your person that they've never done. And so I'm thinking of you. I would love it if you thought of me. |
| 2:03.7 | And then secondly, I've mentioned a couple of times the Memories that Matter journal, and it is |
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