The Wave Property of Grief

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"I feel like I most just have this funny kind of wave property. It kind of comes and goes in these waves," she says. "It might even intensify very briefly as I'm like holding in on the thing that I feel like I've lost, but then it will probably come down after that after a little while" If you identify what an emotion is about, he says, 'it basically goes away within a few seconds' if not right away. But with everyday little emotions, there's a process of loss that doesn't happen immediately.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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