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Oct 2024
40m 45s

What a Psychiatrist & a Nurse Want You t...

Dr Daniel & Tana Amen
About this episode

Grief is a natural part of the human experience, and it's our approach to grief that plays a crucial role in processing our emotions and continuing with our life's journey. In this episode, the Amens discuss their recent personal experience with grief, and how their strategies helped them to process their emotions in a healthy way, even at their lowest. Daniel and Tana then give you their top strategies for how to process grief in your own life, helping you to keep your brain operating in a healthy capacity to honor the memory of those we love and continue your upward trajectory towards peace.

 

00:00 Intro

1:27 Tana's Mom

09:05 Feel It to Heal It

11:23 The Anti-Funeral

13:02 Clean Grief

14:45 Fix Sleep First

17:15 Sponsor

18:41 Develop a Relationship with Grief

23:07 Havening

26:35 Displaced Grief

27:30 Share Your Sadness

28:00 Make Brain Health a Priority

28:38 Never Let Grief Be Your Excuse to Hurt Yourself

31:44 I Know I'm Happy When…

33:48 Physical Activity

36:45 Kill the ANTs

37:29 Honor with Action

39:50 Wrap Up

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