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The Paradox of Grief

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Response to Grief Is So Counterproductive

The response we often have to grief is so counterproductive. When you're grieving, those emotions are like tornadoes in your body saying, wake up. This is bad. You can't avoid this. So the energy you do to kind of squash them down, they stay powerful and full of ambition to come and talk to you. As you express it, something shifts that you know a little bit more in a way that you never wanted to know. And as you shift, it changes you.

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