Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
By: Florence Williams
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects t…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take some time for me to learn that our flaws are not the problem; rather, it is the failure to forgive them—in ourselves and in others—that trips up our hearts."-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take some time for me to learn that our flaws are not the problem; rather, it is the failure to forgive them—in ourselves and in others—that trips up our hearts."-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
"These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with processing sensory and motor information. It’s hard to know what to really make of this, and it’s tricky to attribute emotions or insights to people based on functional brain images. But Williams’s theory is backed up by some other research. Well-connected brains in these areas, she said, tend to be pretty good at processing stressful information and making narrative and personal sense of it. In other words, these drunk-on-beauty people know how to tell themselves a story when something confusing happens. The single emotion they share is awe."-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
"These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with processing sensory and motor information. It’s hard to know what to really make of this, and it’s tricky to attribute emotions or insights to people based on functional brain images. But Williams’s theory is backed up by some other research. Well-connected brains in these areas, she said, tend to be pretty good at processing stressful information and making narrative and personal sense of it. In other words, these drunk-on-beauty people know how to tell themselves a story when something confusing happens. The single emotion they share is awe."-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
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Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
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2. Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit
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Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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By: Caroline Myss
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5. Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir
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Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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3.86
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7. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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4.12
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11. How We Change (And Ten Reasons Why We Don't)
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4.19
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3.89
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3.67
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15. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
By: Florence Williams
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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