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Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey | Florence Williams
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Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesnt expect is that shell end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of social pain to learn why heartbreak hurts so much and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, Williams tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks in a laboratory while looking at pictures of her ex, and ventures to the wilderness in search of awe as an antidote to loneliness. For readers of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.
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JenniferEgnor
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An interesting read about how our bodies respond to our grief. It turns out, we really do have ‘heart strings‘…and we can die from a broken heart. I remember when one of our dogs died a few years back, how I cried the next day. I cried so hard I couldn‘t breathe, so hard my chest was starting to hurt, my heart began to palpitate (dangerous, because I have Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome). My heart was broken because I‘d lost my little boy. ⬇️

JenniferEgnor In this book, the author shares her journey of grief after a marriage of 30 years suddenly ended. It was a wild ride and she learned the deep connections we have between body and mind—how sick she really was. She ultimately had to make choices that if not addressed could have taken her down a much harder road, one where she would have been sick with more than just grief. 5mo
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cariashley
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Really interesting mix of science writing and memoir. Especially good on audio as there is a carefully curated soundtrack and lots of audio clips of real conversations.

rockpools Sounds fascinating! 1y
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JenReadsAlot
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Barnes and Noble purchase! So excited to start planning my trip to Italy this year!!

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inthegreensandblues
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Recommended on audio because of the inclusion of recordings of the author's conversations with friends, scientists, etc. Learned some fascinating things about grief and loneliness and their effects on the body.

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she.hearts.horror
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How people relate may determine how one reacts to emotional vs physical infidelity more than gender.

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