Shireen Jeejeebhoy

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3 days ago | psychologytoday.com | Shireen Jeejeebhoy |Gary Drevitch

Source: Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy“When I was eleven.” With those words, I began my non-fiction book Brain Injury, Trauma, and Grief: How to Heal When You Are Alone. In an earlier post here, I wrote about visiting my grandfather in the cardiac care unit when I was 11 But another sight affected me, as well:“I stood in the sliding glass doorway of my grandfather’s cardiac care unit room. He lay white and still surrounded by humming machines and tubes in the hushed room.

1 month ago | psychologytoday.com | Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Source: Dan Sudermann/PixabayMary-Frances O’Connor has followed up her excellent book The Grieving Brain with The Grieving Body. In it, she writes about how our systems sync with, entrain, and regulate those of our loved ones—and they ours. Our diurnal rhythms rely on various inputs, called “zeitgebers,” or time givers, to keep them on 24-hour cycles. One zeitgeber is social, such as loved ones. The social zeitgeber entrains us to each other and to the natural world.

2 months ago | qoshe.com | Shireen Jeejeebhoy

2 months ago | psychologytoday.com | Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Source: Adam Tumidajewicz/PixabayWhen I was 16, my grandmother’s physique puzzled me. Her shape suggested obesity, but her limbs and face contradicted my observation. I asked my father, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, about this puzzle. He obviously knew the answer; he refused to tell me. He sent me away to figure it out for myself. So I headed for my high school library.