When my husband decided to live on his own after three decades togetherness, the cliches of heartbreak felt not like melodrama at all. We spent another six months, still living together and drafting a detailed parenting plan. By the time he took his small, blue suit case and rolled it of the kitchen door for ever, i'd already lost 20 pounds. Physically, i felt like my body had been plugged into a faulty electrical socket. I was getting sick. My pancreus wasn't working right. It's what finally propelled me to seek some answers. And that meant sometimes in the rational arms of fields like neurogenomics and the psychology of social rejection. That
Hi Slight Changers -- We'll be back with fresh episodes for you on Feb 28th!! In the meantime, I wanted to share a new audiobook from Pushkin, the company behind A Slight Change of Plans. It’s called Heartbreak and it’s written and read by Florence Williams. Florence is a science journalist, and when her husband of 25 years broke up with her, she set out to understand what was happening to her, emotionally and physically, after the divorce. The result is an immersive listening experience that's geared at changing the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.
You can order the Heartbreak audiobook now at pushkin.fm/heartbreak
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