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Jul 21, 2020
7 min

Everything Happens for a Reason—Doesn’t It?

Everything happens for a reason. We hear it all the time. I have been hearing it for years from my Psychology students.

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Jul 21, 2020
6 min

Your Secret Grief

So, this title caught your eye? Perhaps you saw it earlier but wanted to read it in secret.

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Jul 21, 2020
5 min

Your Brain—It’s Doing the Best It Can

As you read this article, your brain is trying to make sense of what these words are saying to you. Your brain is seeking meaning.

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Jul 21, 2020
5 min

What Does It Mean to Fear Dying and Death?

You hear it all the time: We humans fear dying and death. “I’m afraid.” “Death scares me.”

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Jul 21, 2020
6 min

What Does it Mean to “Deal with it”?

We hear it all the time, “She’s not dealing with her father’s death.” “I’m trying to deal with this loss.” “They’ll be dealing with this tra

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Jul 21, 2020
3 min

Trying to Make Sense of a Tragedy by Using the Just World Hypothesis

When a disturbing, senseless event takes place, our brain demands to know why. In our attempt to answer the question we have a choice

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Jul 21, 2020
3 min

Six Tricks Your Brain Plays on You During Grief

Why would your brain trick you, especially at a time when you need it most? Because it’s not perfect.

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Jul 21, 2020
4 min

A Pill for Your Grief: A Drug to Ease Bad Memories: Would You Take It?

It’s here. Not quite available to us all, but someday it will be and you will be faced with the decision: to take it and reduce the effect o

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Jul 21, 2020
6 min

Pain: How Much Can You Take?

As a college instructor I teach my students that one way to understand behavior is to think about our brain as having two major functions..

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Jul 21, 2020
2 min

How Our Brain Tries to Manage the Pain of Grief

It’s a fact of which you are quite aware: Your brain does not like pain and discomfort. When pain comes into our lives, our brain immedia...

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Jul 21, 2020
6 min

Grief’s Strange Thoughts

Since your loved one died, your brain has had thousands of thoughts about this person and about your reaction to their death

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Jul 21, 2020
4 min

Empathy and Brain Pain Relief

Many people react almost instinctively to reduce their own pain caused by the empathy they feel as they listen to the story of the tragic...

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Jul 15, 2020
5 min

The Unexplained Death of a Child: Our Brain is Doing the Best It Can

within seconds of learning of their child’s death, the parents’ brain has requested—no demanded--- to begin to know why? Why? WHY?

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Everything Happens for a Reason—Doesn’t It?

Your Secret Grief

Your Brain—It’s Doing the Best It Can

What Does It Mean to Fear Dying and Death?

What Does it Mean to “Deal with it”?

Trying to Make Sense of a Tragedy by Using the Just World Hypothesis

Six Tricks Your Brain Plays on You During Grief

A Pill for Your Grief: A Drug to Ease Bad Memories: Would You Take It?

Pain: How Much Can You Take?

How Our Brain Tries to Manage the Pain of Grief

Grief’s Strange Thoughts

Empathy and Brain Pain Relief

The Unexplained Death of a Child: Our Brain is Doing the Best It Can