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Feeling Numb: What You Need to Know

By Jennifer Huizen — 2020

It is not unusual to feel emotionally numb after or during a very stressful event. A person may also notice a temporary feeling of dissociation or disconnection from the body and the outside world.

Read on www.medicalnewstoday.com

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You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions—Your Brain Creates Them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of...

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2018
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

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Harriet Lerner
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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C. S. Lewis
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Molly Carroll: The Need for Human Connection and Why It Starts with Ourselves | TEDxManhattanBeach

Molly Carroll shares staggering suicide and loneliness trends, making a plea for deeper human connection. “Our brains are wired to reach out and interact,” she says.

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2020
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Still Together: Connection Through Meditation

Still Together is an exploration of the ways we feel detachment from our lives, goals and friendships, and how we can begin to reclaim ourselves through human connection.

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Manoj Dias, Sacree Frangine (illustrator)
2021
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Missing Each Other: How to Cultivate Meaningful Connections

The ability to connect with another person's physical and emotional state is one of the most elusive interpersonal skills to develop, but this book shows you just how approachable it can be. In our fast-paced, tech-obsessed lives, rarely do we pay genuine, close attention to one another.

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Edward Brodkin, Ashley Pallathra
2021
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Gordon Neufeld: Making Sense of Anxiety in Children and Youth

Dr. Gordon Neufeld speaks at The Dalai Lama Center about Anxiety in Children and Youth.

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Gordon Neufeld
2012
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.

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James Doty
2017
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Sacred Therapies: The Kundalini Yoga Meditation Handbook for Mental Health

A simplified version, for consumers, of yoga protocols for optimal mental health.

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David Shannahoff-Khalsa
2012
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Widen the Window | Dr. Elizabeth Stanley | Talks at Google

In celebration of Veterans Day, Talks at Google is honored to welcome Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D.

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Elizabeth Stanley
2019
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