Biohacking Heartbreak: How to Move on Faster – Florence Williams : 1154
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Get ready for a journey that takes you beyond the pain of heartbreak and into a world where loss transforms into growth with science journalist Florence Williams, who shares her personal triumph over the heartbreak of divorce, which inspired her to write a book on the subject. This episode sheds light on how heartbreak reshapes our bodies and minds. You'll gain valuable tactics for emotional healing, understand the crucial role of touch in regaining trust, and see how therapeutic practices like EMDR and rituals can offer relief. For those on the mend or helping others heal, this discussion is packed with practical advice to help you transform the trials of heartbreak into a journey of empowerment. This episode provides clear steps to recover and emerge stronger from life's emotional challenges.
Timestamp Highlights
- (00:02:26) Florence Williams’ Journey Through Divorce
- (00:07:42) Divorce as a Story of Inflammation
- (00:13:43) Rebuilding Connection Post-Heartbreak
- (00:18:02) Embracing Beauty and Awe in Healing
- (00:23:22) Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics in Overcoming Heartbreak
- (00:34:33) Reestablishing Trust After Betrayal
- (00:38:04) The Healing Power of Touch and Oxytocin
- (00:44:51) Safe Relationships and Self-Discovery Post-Divorce
- (00:50:33) Journaling as a Tool for Processing Emotions
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we're going to talk about something that you might not think is in the world of |
| 0:14.9 | biohacking, but it is. That is, heartbreak. Heartbreak from my perspective is actually an injury it's just not a physical injury and it's |
| 0:27.4 | something that we do need to recover from and it's something that you can study and if you ignore the effects of that as a part of your |
| 0:36.8 | universe of things outside of you and inside of you that you can change in order to change your biology so that you're more in charge of |
| 0:45.1 | yourself, then maybe you're missing an important variable and by sort of thinking |
| 0:50.5 | you just have to walk it off or you don't have to acknowledge it, you may |
| 0:55.1 | be shortchanging yourself or maybe someone around you is dealing with it. |
| 0:59.2 | So you're going to learn by the end of this episode how heartbreak affects human health |
| 1:06.7 | and how you or people you care about can recover from it and be stronger than they were before. And our guest today is Florence Williams, who's an award-winning |
| 1:17.9 | author, a journalist, and has studied this after going through her own painful divorce and she's like well what's |
| 1:25.1 | going on with this so she looked at the physiological things that happen after |
| 1:29.9 | loss and separation and if you're listening to this saying I'm in a great relationship this isn't for me |
| 1:36.3 | I promise you that in the people around you there are quite a few people who are |
| 1:41.3 | dealing with the effects of heartbreak. And if you don't think that that |
| 1:45.3 | relationship with little Susie back in you know 11th grade which is usually |
| 1:51.1 | around the time a lot of people experience their first heartbreak. |
| 1:53.6 | If you think that's not still affecting you at some way in your relationship, |
| 1:58.0 | you might be surprised to learn that it can leave deep marks. |
| 2:01.3 | And I know this from more than 1,500 people who've come |
| 2:05.1 | through 40 years of Zen. I have yet to find someone who doesn't run the |
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