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The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss with Psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor

The Happy Pear Podcast

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Is Denial Helping You in the Short Term?

Denial has a really bad reputation, but it's one of the tools that you can use to cope with feelings. In the long term, if you use denial every single day, you're not building up any other skills to deal with feeling grief. And so in the longer term, I think about things like learning to accept the feelings, even really painful feelings without avoiding them.

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