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This podcast is the narrated version of my article 3 Soul Soothing Ways To Help Your Clients Overcome A Broken Heart.
We talk of the ‘pain’ of break up and this word is more accurate than you might have realised. When we feel rejected from a relationship, the same parts of the brain that process physical pain become active.
In this episode I talk about:
- Don’t pretend they don’t hurt
- Once you’ve really heard them… tell them a story
- Talk about the relationship in terms of what they have learned from it
Or watch this episode of the podcast on video below:
References/Notes:
- Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain. Ethan F. Kross, Marc G. Berman, Walter Mischel, Edward E. Smith and Tor D. Wager; published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 108 no. 15.
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