What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.
Presented by palliative and bereavement health care professionals Julie Brown, Red Keating and David Kennedy. Dying is one of the few experiences we will all share, yet little is done in our culture to prepare us for this inevitability and it's resulting bereavement and grief. Drawing on their vast knowledge and experience each episode is a conversation meant to enlighten and demystify the often difficult and emotional experiences of dying, death and bereavement. Presented in partnership with Hospice Peterborough.
What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.
S3E17 - The Grieving Body
Regular listeners will remember back in season 2 when Mary-Frances O’Connor joined us to discuss her groundbreaking book The Grieving Brain. For those who haven’t had the chance to hear this episode (S2E9) it is worth the time.
In this episode, we are very pleased to have Mary-Frances return to discuss her follow-up book, The Grieving Body. In this conversation, we explore how grief is experienced in our bodies—specifically the heart and cardiovascular system, the immune and endocrine systems, and cognitively. We answer questions such as: 'Can we die of a broken heart?' and 'Why might we be more prone to illness when grieving?' Our discussion draws on science and research, presented through a compassionate, open-hearted, and accessible lens.
Mary-Frances normalizes and helps us understand how intricately involved our bodily systems are in the grieving process and offers insights on how to care for ourselves and each other.
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