On right this moment’s episode of Being Nicely, Forrest is joined by one of many world’s main researchers on grief, Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor, to assist us higher perceive grief and grieving. They discover why grief is such a singular and intense emotion, how grief works within the mind, the issues with generalized fashions just like the “5 levels of grief,” and the way we will be taught to reside with loss.
About Our Visitor: Mary-Frances is a neuroscientist, scientific psychologist, and affiliate professor of psychology on the College of Arizona, the place she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress Lab, which investigates the consequences of grief on the mind and the physique. She’s additionally the writer of the great guide The Grieving Mind: The Shocking Science of How We Be taught from Love and Loss.
Key Matters:
0:00: Introduction and disclaimer
3:35: Mary-Frances’ private background
6:55: Distinguishing grief from grieving
9:20: Self-criticism and overfocus on restoration
11:20: Altering how we body grief as one thing to recover from
13:00: Attachment and our neurological map
16:00: Prediction error
19:30: Sophisticated grief
25:00: Non secular follow or a worldview that includes loss of life
28:05: Is there a ‘regular’ grieving course of?
35:25: Pathology and regular human expertise
46:00: Neurological overview of grief within the mind
50:40: The Twin Course of Mannequin of Grief
54:10: Typically distraction is okay
56:15: Therapeutic practices and studying from grief
1:01:00: Grief and its relationship to like
1:03:40: Recap