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🗓️ 26 May 2022
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Death is a part of life, and if you’ve experienced the death of a close family member or friend, you may wonder if the pain of that loss will ever go away. So, what happens to our brains and bodies when we grieve? What should we know about grief in order to heal in the healthiest way possible?
We’ll explore those questions on this episode as we talk with Mary-Frances O’Connor who is a well-known grief expert, neuroscientist and psychologist. She’s also the author of a new book called, “THE GRIEVING BRAIN: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss”.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. |
0:04.7 | Death is a part of life and if you've experienced the death of a close family member or friend, |
0:09.5 | you may wonder if the pain of that loss will ever go away. |
0:13.2 | So what happens to our brains and bodies when we grieve? |
0:16.5 | And what should we know about grief in order to heal in the healthiest way possible? |
0:20.4 | We'll explore those |
0:21.2 | questions on this episode as we talk with Mary Francis O'Connor, who's a well-known grief expert, |
0:26.8 | neuroscientist and psychologist. She's also the author of a tremendous new book called The Grieving |
0:32.9 | Brain, the surprising science of how we learn from love and loss. |
0:38.3 | Mary Frances, thank you so much for joining us. |
0:40.6 | It's a real honor to be here. |
0:43.0 | Tell us why you decided to write the book. |
0:46.2 | This book came about because so many things have been written about what grief feels like, |
0:53.3 | and those are incredibly powerful. But I really |
0:57.9 | wanted people to know that there's a science behind why we feel so awful when we lose someone, |
1:05.3 | or how the brain might be creating new learning that helps us to adapt. So my goal was really to |
1:16.9 | offer that insight and science to the general public. So tell us more about that. How does grief |
1:24.3 | impact all of our brain functions? |
1:30.2 | Grief is really wide-ranging. |
1:36.9 | So I like to say sometimes, you know, each grief is as different as each relationship that you have, that you've lost, just in the same way that love feels really different between different |
1:42.6 | individuals. |
1:43.2 | I think grief in some ways is the same. |
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