How Nostalgia Can Carry Us Through Tough Times
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Who hasn't thought something like this before? These feelings of warmth and longing can be about a time in our personal lives or about an era in history. The feeling is called nostalgia.
Nostalgia is something we all experience, and according to psychologists, the past can help us make sense of the present and can even offer us tools for a more resilient future.
We discuss nostalgia; it's complications and how we can learn to use it for good.
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| 0:10.4 | See if you qualify today at Noom.com slash med. That's N-O-O-O-M-E-D. If you'll flip through your high school yearbook you'll notice the style of the |
| 0:29.5 | decade right away. Maybe you're wearing aviator glasses and your hair is in big |
| 0:34.4 | fluffy curls if you graduated in the 80s or your big-time crush has a slightly |
| 0:39.3 | mortifying gerry curl and clunky metal braces. As you begin to recall these high school years you might notice a warm |
| 0:47.1 | wistful feeling in your chest it's known as nostalgia a number of memories can conjure up that feeling. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm nostalgic for winter. I grew up in Rhode Island and I lived near a place called |
| 0:59.8 | the ice pond. We called it that because all winter long it was frozen over and |
| 1:04.4 | kids would come from all over and we would skate. My first pair of skates were |
| 1:09.4 | hockey skates, my brothers, when I was about three years old. |
| 1:13.2 | We spent the whole winter on the pond |
| 1:15.8 | or on a hill nearby sledding. |
| 1:18.2 | And it was just an amazing time in my life. |
| 1:21.8 | I look back at it with great nostalgia. |
| 1:24.0 | Thanks for that message. Now nostalgia is a feeling we all experience, but it's a |
| 1:29.1 | complicated emotion. Psychologists say the past can help us make sense of the present and motion. dangerous desire to return to a past that wasn't all that great and how can we use |
| 1:44.9 | nostalgia for good. We get into those questions and more after the break. I'm Jen White. |
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