Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

Written by:
Florence Williams
Narrated by:
Florence Williams
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Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
2
Narrator
2
Release Date
February 2022
Duration
10 hours 37 minutes
Summary
For fans of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a uniquely immersive audiobook, merging science and self-discovery to change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love. 




When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn’t expect is that she’ll 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. 




In Williams’s search for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, she tries it all–and listeners can hear it all–including exclusive (astonishing) bonus material from Williams’s most intimate moments: live and unscripted therapy sessions, gabfests with girlfriends, and the making and breaking of new romantic relationships. Join her in the laboratory as she tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, hear every sound of the wilderness as she searches for awe as an antidote to loneliness, and be a fly on the wall as she is guided through psilocybin and MDMA therapy. 




Narrated by the author and accompanied by in-the-moment diary recordings and interviews, Heartbreak is an immersive audiobook that taps into one of the most shared experiences in the animal kingdom: heartbreak. 
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Katie H.

Florence William's book "Heartbreak" has left me feeling supported in my own experience of heartbreak. I feel as though I have been able to sit down with a good friend over coffee to gain insight over divorce which is said to be one of the most stressful life events a person can experience in their lifetime. Florence chooses to document her personal journey and generously takes the reader with her on the precarious path to healing after heartbreak. She uses science based research to make sense of her pain while also testing those scientific studies on herself to see if they can make a difference in her own divorce experience. I really enjoyed this book and appreciated that she was the narrator, and a good one at that! This book will be useful for those going through divorce, those still struggling with the sometimes long term pain of divorce and for those that are divorce curious. Education can be powerful when going through something as stressful and life changing as divorce and what better of a teacher than someone who is in the midst of the experience...especially when they can offer up scientific facts that help us understand ourselves and give us real tools to begin the precarious journey to a more whole and honest version of ourselves.

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