Your Brain and Body After Loss

Would you like help? Message me at https://www.patienceinthemourning.com Traumatic grief changes your brain, body, and nervous system, especially when you’re a woman parenting through loss in a world that won’t slow down. In this gentle, trauma‑informed episode, Patience McGrane explains what traumatic grief does to the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex, why you feel foggy, reactive, or numb, and how bumblebee breath can offer instant stress relief and nervous system regulation. You’ll also hear tender guidance on parenting grieving children, navigating grief rebound, and choosing compassion over perfection as you learn to live in a reality you never planned for. 0:00Intro 01:45 Bumble Bee Breath for Self-Regulation 03:53 What Makes Grief Traumatic 09:46 – How traumatic grief affects your brain: amygdala, hippocampus, PFC 15:36 – Grief in the body: nervous system states, fight/flight/freeze 18:23 – Parenting while grieving: your nervous system and your children’s 21:01 – Grief rebound, intense attachment, and seeking regulation 23:56 – Closing practice: heart‑centered bumblebee breath 27:57 – Closing Would you like help? Message me at https://www.patienceinthemourning.com Like and Subscribe for weekly grief support ‪@patienceinthemourning‬