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Apr 2022
49m 35s

Healing Your Heart

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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We’ve all heard about the five stages of grief. But what happens when your experience doesn’t follow that model at all? Resilience researcher Lucy Hone began to question how we think about grief after a devastating loss in her own life. She shares the techniques she learned to help her cope with tragedy. 
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