The kind of loss no-one thinks about…
21 Jun 2026 · 1 min
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In this brief conversational excerpt, James Laughlin asks about what neuroscience says regarding change and the brain-body response. The responding speaker emphasizes that any change inherently involves loss, noting that even a seemingly perfect, dream move—new job, city, house—can trigger grief for the previous life. They illustrate this with a personal anecdote about a friend who, despite enjoying her new circumstances, continues to mourn aspects of her old life. The core claim is that change is fundamentally linked to loss, and the emotional processing of that loss is a universal aspect of human experience, rooted in neural mechanisms of grief and adaptation.
