The Surprising Science of Dealing With Loss

How to move forward and find happiness again even when your brain doesn't want to.

Hi there fellow book lover! 👋 

Welcome to The One Percent Better Club 📚 - your weekly dose of brilliant ideas from the world’s best nonfiction books that are going to help you be one percent better today than you were yesterday! This week, I’m talking about the book The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor. So if you’re ready for that one percent upgrade, then let's dive in!

One Sentence Summary:

The Grieving Brain is an insightful investigation into the deeply personal effects that losing a loved one has on your brain. 

How Reading This Book Changed My Life:

As a result of reading this book…

• I was able to better handle the grief I was feeling after the death of my older brother in 2022.

• I now understand what was going on in my brain after all my grandparents passed away in a one-year span in 2012.

• I learned a toolkit of strategies I can use to better cope with grief.

• I developed a better understanding of what other people go through when they’re grieving so that I can be more supportive in the way they need me to be.

For these reasons, this is easily the most important book I read in 2022.