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Responding to Grief
Video Course: Responding to Grief | ||
Activity | Episode 1 | Duration |
1 | Click Here: How Our Brain Is Set-Up | 11 mins 7 seconds |
| In this video we look at how our neocortex helps us manage the rest of our brain and how our brain changes every day on the basis of how we use it | |
| Key Takeaways Our brain is the most precious bit of kit we’ll ever own Our neocortex can help us start behaviours that will help us improve and develop ourselves, it can help us stop doing things that don’t help us Our brain is neurally plastic throughout our lives | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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Video Course: Responding to Grief | ||
Activity | Episode 2 | Duration |
1 | 8 mins 45 seconds | |
| In this video we look at the neuroscience of love and why the loss of people we love or are close impacts on our body, brain and mind so profoundly. | |
| Key Takeaways Love changes our brains Love re-wires our nucleus accumbens Love makes us feel safe and seen | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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Video Course: Responding to Grief | ||
Activity | Episode 3 | Duration |
1 | 8 mins 4 seconds | |
| In this video we look at how the brain changes as a result of bereavement and how those changes impact our experience of ourselves | |
| Key Takeaways We co-regulate our bodies and brains through our relationships We build models of our loved ones across our neural architecture Grief creates a deep pull of negative emotions, negative thinking and hopelessness | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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Video Course: Responding to Grief | ||
Activity | Episode 4 | Duration |
1 | Click Here: Why Is Grief So Incredibly Painful? | 3 mins 11 seconds |
| In this video we look at what is causing so much emotional, physiological and psychological pain across our body, brain and mind when we are grieving | |
| Key Takeaways We are locked between the push and pull of grief We’re experiencing the loss of our loved one through our body, brain and mind Grief is a whole body, brain and mind experience and inside it, it feels like it will never end | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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Video Course: Responding to Grief | ||
Activity | Episode 5 | Duration |
1 | Click Here: Living Inside the Grief Whirlpool | 6 mins 11 seconds |
| In this video we look at how the psychological state of grief can keep us stuck in a whirlpool of challenging difficult feelings, thoughts and behaviours | |
| Key Takeaways We don’t move through the stages of grief in a linear fashion, we move through them in a chaotic and unstructured way Stabilising ourselves in the spiral is about practicing actions and thoughts that steady us in the midst of the gyre If we practice these stabilising actions, we will slow our spin and then can drag ourselves out of the spiral | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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Video Course: Responding to Grief | ||
Activity | Episode 6 | Duration |
1 | Click Here: Coming Out Of the Spiral | 8 mins 15 seconds |
| In this video we look at how we might respond to the whirlpool like pull of the psychological state of grief to enable us to begin to find our way out of the grief spiral | |
| Key Takeaways We can use 6 strategies to start to stabilise ourselves in the spiral Metacognition helps us remember that we are a body and brain grieving and this is an intense and ongoing experience We can start to build values into our lives after the trauma of the loss that will begin to help us make meaning in our lives going forward | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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Activity | Episode 7 | Duration |
1 | Click Here:Post Traumatic Growth | 8 mins 40 seconds |
| In this video we look at the concept of post-traumatic growth, what it is, what form it takes and the different ways people might approach living with their grief and slowly but surely returning to reduced distress. | |
| Key Takeaways Trauma can lead to personal growth and change We cannot control what happens to us, but we can manage how we respond over time Every person’s post-traumatic growth will be as individual and different as they are. | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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Video Course: Responding to Grief | ||
Activity | Episode 8 | Duration |
1 | Click Here: Living with Fulfillment After Loss | 12 mins 26 seconds |
| In this video we look at how we might begin to find fulfillment after loss | |
| The Station Poem by Robert Hastings (Shortened version Tucked away in our subconscious minds is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long, long trip that almost spans the continent. But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour we will pull into the station. “When we reach the station that will be it!” we cry. Translated it means, “When I’m 18, that will be it! When I buy a new 450 SL Mercedes Benz, that will be it! When I put the last kid through college, that will be it! When I have paid off the mortgage, that will be it! When I win a promotion, that will be it! When I reach the age of retirement, that will be it! I shall live happily ever after!” Unfortunately, once we get it, then it disappears. The station somehow hides itself at the end of an endless track So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The station will come soon enough | |
Be a #NeuroNinja App is available in App and Google Play Store If you’d like some coaching email Andrew - andrewwright@aypuk.com | ||
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