Ep #170: The Grieving Brain: An Interview with Mary-Frances O’Connor

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 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.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/170

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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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