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The Grieving Brain: How to Navigate Emotions After Loss with Mary-Frances O'Connor

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Education, Brain, Memory, Jimkwik, Productivity, Business, Kwikbrain

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Why do you grieve and how can you overcome the intense emotions grief can often produce?

Grief is one of the most profound human experiences you’ll go through. It’s also inevitable. You can’t escape grief, no matter how hard you try. That’s what makes it so challenging. But you can learn how to cope with the natural ups and downs of the grieving process.

Dr. Mary Frances O’Connor is here today to help us understand what’s happening on a neurological level when you’re grieving. Dr. O’Connor is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona and directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress Lab studying the effects of grief on the body and brain. She’s also the author of the book, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss.

Grief is always tied to pain, but part of the emotional response is your brain activating different areas as it tries to process your loss. Whether you’re experiencing profound grief yourself or know someone going through it, this episode will change how you think about love and loss while giving you tools to navigate this deeply emotional journey.

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0:00.0

Welcome to QuickBrain. Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more.

0:06.0

I'm your coach, Jim Quick.

0:08.0

Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.

0:15.0

I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.

0:18.0

I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.

0:20.0

I know Kung Fu.

0:22.0

Show me. I know Kung Fu.

0:24.0

Show me.

0:27.0

Welcome back Quick Brains. I'm your host and your brain coach Jim Quick.

0:29.0

Today our guest is Dr. Mary Francis O'Connor who will take us on a journey through the

0:35.2

neuroscience of grief explaining why it's so difficult for our brains to accept

0:39.4

that a loved one is truly gone why we experience such intense emotions like sadness and anger or yearning.

0:47.0

Whether you've experienced some profound grief yourself or are supporting someone going through it,

0:52.0

this discussion will change how you think about love and

0:55.2

loss and the remarkably resilient human brain. So don't miss this insightful look at the grieving brain.

1:03.3

She is the author of the grieving brain,

1:05.6

the surprising science of how we learn for loss and love.

1:10.8

Welcome to this show, Mary Francis.

1:13.0

It's really good to be here. Thank you.

1:15.0

So good to have you here.

1:16.0

This is a topic that has come up and we have a private Facebook group of maybe 150,000 people and this is a topic that comes up on a regular basis.

1:27.6

So we wanted to reach out to your team to talk to you about your research.

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