2014
Love is the best thing in life - until it's over. Heartbreak affects us all. Oscar-nominated director Christian Frei teams with famed anthropologist Helen Fisher to examine the power and resilience of love despite it all.
90 min
CLEAR ALL
This much-needed book outlines clear and effective strategies to help you cope with the tension, anxiety, trauma and violence of modern living.
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Photographs and stories of people who have coped with and overcome depression, anxiety, trauma, and other challenges. “In MIT professor Daniel Jackson’s recent book, Portraits of Resilience, being resilient means being vulnerable.
Most of us at some point in our lives will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, assault, or a natural disaster. Resilience refers to the ability to ‘bounce back’ after encountering difficulty.
“For your husband, your illness may have made him acutely aware of not just your mortality, but also his own.”
In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.
Kati Morton is a licensed marriage and family therapist who runs a private practice in Santa Monica, California. In this episode, we talk about her new book, Traumatized: Identify, Understand, and Cope with PTSD and Emotional Stress.
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Working with the circuitry of the brain to restore emotional health and well-being.
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Renowned French neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik’s parents were deported to a concentration camp during the Second World War. They never returned.
A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.