I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

Recently, my dog died.

And I've been really heartbroken or maybe I should say brain broken and I'm

wondering what happens to your brain when you lose someone you love,

whether it's a spouse, a friend, or a pet?

Oh, it's so sad.

I guess we just talked to a patient last week who

had to put her dog to sleep and she was so sad and a lot of people don't get how

important their animals are to them. I mean we've been playing with

Tinker Bell tonight. And your animals come to live in the

nerve cell networks in your brain. And so they actually become part of who we are and when they go away they don't

die in our brain they still live. And I remember when Pollyanna died. Polyanna was our Maltese. We had her for

11 years. So cute. And my daughter, Brianne, got depressed when Pollyanna died. She had

nightmares about Pollyanna. Every time she'd look where the dog's dish was supposed to be, she'd just start to cry.

And it was as if she'd lost, you know, one of the most important people in her life,

but it was one of the most important lives in her life

because Pollyanna was still in her head.

And it really wasn't until she got Madison, who turned out to be Pauliana's

Brand meets, that Brianne started to sort of get to be more normal. But grieve is so, such an important issue for us to deal with and often when people go through a grieving process they do terrible things for their brain.

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