What a Psychiatrist & a Nurse Want You to Know About Processing & Healing from Grief

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Braintrauma, Healthtips, Sleep, Obesity, Anxiety, Braininjury, Depression, Ptsd, Mentalhealth, Mood, Brainhealth, Health & Fitness, Energy, Disease, Addiction, Mental Health, Healthadvice, Adhd, Memory, Focus

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Grief is a natural part of the human experience, and it's our approach to grief that plays a crucial role in processing our emotions and continuing with our life's journey. In this episode, the Amens discuss their recent personal experience with grief, and how their strategies helped them to process their emotions in a healthy way, even at their lowest. Daniel and Tana then give you their top strategies for how to process grief in your own life, helping you to keep your brain operating in a healthy capacity to honor the memory of those we love and continue your upward trajectory towards peace.

00:00 Intro

1:27 Tana’s Mom

09:05 Feel It to Heal It

11:23 The Anti-Funeral

13:02 Clean Grief

14:45 Fix Sleep First

17:15 Sponsor

18:41 Develop a Relationship with Grief

23:07 Havening

26:35 Displaced Grief

27:30 Share Your Sadness

28:00 Make Brain Health a Priority

28:38 Never Let Grief Be Your Excuse to Hurt Yourself

31:44 I Know I’m Happy When…

33:48 Physical Activity

36:45 Kill the ANTs

37:29 Honor with Action

39:50 Wrap Up

Transcript

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0:00.0	Sometimes grief can be a little bit displaced.
0:02.3	I remember there was a family member I was getting really frustrated with and you actually said to me
0:06.4	you're like, wow, you seem really mad at that person.
0:09.2	You're being very diplomatic.
0:10.7	It made me stop for a second and I'm like, yeah, maybe I just need someone to be mad at right now.
0:15.0	But I realized it was displaced grief.
0:18.0	It'll sneak out in these other ways and you'll sort of bleed all over people who really had nothing to do with it.
0:24.3	You bleed on the people who didn't cut you.
0:26.3	Yeah.
0:27.3	If you don't heal from what hurt you, you bleed on people who didn't cut you.
0:30.4	Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.
0:36.0	Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day.
0:42.0	Hannah and I are so excited that you have joined us for the second episode,
0:48.0	Change Your Brain, Every Day Podcast, where we give you practical tips and tools to have a better brain, a better body,
0:58.4	better relationships, and a better life.
1:03.0	So great to see you, my love?
1:05.0	You too, and I'm so excited.
1:07.0	This is our second episode, and if you stick with us,
1:10.0	we are just going to give you so many practical tips and tools and just it's a journey.
1:15.7	This is not a destination.
1:17.4	So stay with us and just day by day, even if it's just 1%, you're going to learn so much.
1:22.5	And at the end of a year, imagine how much your life will change.
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