What I am saying is that yearning for what once was is silly. One: you can’t go back. Two: the back that you remember never existed as you remember it.
NAMES, NAMING, NUMBERs, AND FACTS
Naming is arbitrary. We associate meaning with sounds, but there is no intrinsic relationship between the sound and what it means. I remember the moment I began to discover this symbolic world.
Grounding Grief as Memory
Memory changes its character once death claims a person or people with whom a memory was shared. Grieving individuals or families tell stories about the deceased to solidify and reinforce a narrative of the dying or dead person. As someone is dying, or after someone in the family dies, a consensually created memory emerges. Sometimes […]
Dancing and Neuroplasticity
Memories are consolidated through activity that occurs in the hippocampus in the brain. Short term memories are processed into long term memories. Now there is evidence that physical activity such as dancing and endurance training both increase the volume of the hippocampus. That is right, movement impacts cognition… and memory. A recent systemic review of […]
Body Memory
The concept of body memory is a confusing one. The neural system and brain is usually considered to be distinct from the body. The blood brain barrier protects the brain from noisy and dangerous particles and extraneous information that regularly influences the components of our bodies at the cellular level. The essence of who we […]
Meaningful Dates
A Wonderful Today Today marks a huge milestone for my daughter. Today is the first day she is officially working as an audiologist. She received her doctorate in May. Friday was the last day of a year-long externship with a major integrated managed care consortium. I am so proud of her. Not only was it a […]