58 分鐘

Episode #31 - The Grieving Brain - With a Neuroscientist and Clinical Psychologist Dr Mary-Frances O'Connor Introduction to Recovery From Fragmented Families

    • 自我提升

If you have been impacted by grief whether it is due to the death of a loved one or ambiguous loss of family members, then, this episode is for you!

Welcome to today's episode featuring  my amazing guest Dr Mary Frances O'Connor. 

Dr Mary-Frances O'Connor is a renowned grief expert, neuroscientist,  Psychologist and an PhD associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab where she investigates the effects of grief on the brain and the body. 

Mary Frances's work has been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Psychological Science. Mary has also been featured in the Newsweek, the New York Times, and, The UK Guardian and The Washington Post.

The Grieving Brain addresses; 

- Why it's so hard to understand that loved one has died and is gone forever

- Why grief causes so many emotions - sadness, anger, blame, guilt and yearning 

- Why grieving takes so long 

- What happens in the brain during grief

- The distinction between grief and complicated grief 

- Why we ruminate so much after we lose a loved one

- How we ago about restoring a meaningful life while grieving.



Grief is something that we're all going to experience at some point in our lives and sadly it is unavoidable. By becoming familiar of what we will actually go through, we can somehow have some mental preparation and also realise that we're not alone in how we feel.

Family estrangement is categorised as an ambiguous loss which also involves the processes of grieving. 

Family estrangement is complicated and I believe the book discussed in this episode and the episode itself will shed some lights as why you're struggling family estrangement.



To purchase - The Grieving Brain - Click on this link -  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grieving-Brain-Surprising-Science-Learn/dp/0062946234

Connect with Mary-Frances O'Connor

Website: https://www.maryfrancesoconnor.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryfrancesoconnor/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctormfo



Connect with Mariam 

https://www.instagram.com/recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/587817455514932/

Book a one to one coaching; https://calendly.com/recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies/60min?month=2022-03

or book a free 15 minutes  discovery call: https://calendly.com/recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies/15min?month=2022-03

Join the family estrangement support group: https://recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1121

If you have been impacted by grief whether it is due to the death of a loved one or ambiguous loss of family members, then, this episode is for you!

Welcome to today's episode featuring  my amazing guest Dr Mary Frances O'Connor. 

Dr Mary-Frances O'Connor is a renowned grief expert, neuroscientist,  Psychologist and an PhD associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab where she investigates the effects of grief on the brain and the body. 

Mary Frances's work has been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Psychological Science. Mary has also been featured in the Newsweek, the New York Times, and, The UK Guardian and The Washington Post.

The Grieving Brain addresses; 

- Why it's so hard to understand that loved one has died and is gone forever

- Why grief causes so many emotions - sadness, anger, blame, guilt and yearning 

- Why grieving takes so long 

- What happens in the brain during grief

- The distinction between grief and complicated grief 

- Why we ruminate so much after we lose a loved one

- How we ago about restoring a meaningful life while grieving.



Grief is something that we're all going to experience at some point in our lives and sadly it is unavoidable. By becoming familiar of what we will actually go through, we can somehow have some mental preparation and also realise that we're not alone in how we feel.

Family estrangement is categorised as an ambiguous loss which also involves the processes of grieving. 

Family estrangement is complicated and I believe the book discussed in this episode and the episode itself will shed some lights as why you're struggling family estrangement.



To purchase - The Grieving Brain - Click on this link -  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grieving-Brain-Surprising-Science-Learn/dp/0062946234

Connect with Mary-Frances O'Connor

Website: https://www.maryfrancesoconnor.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryfrancesoconnor/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctormfo



Connect with Mariam 

https://www.instagram.com/recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/587817455514932/

Book a one to one coaching; https://calendly.com/recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies/60min?month=2022-03

or book a free 15 minutes  discovery call: https://calendly.com/recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies/15min?month=2022-03

Join the family estrangement support group: https://recoveryfromfragmentedfamilies.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1121

58 分鐘