TED Radio Hour

How to mend a broken heart

May 8, 2026·49 min·5-min readnarrativescience
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Heartbreak is not just a metaphor — extreme emotions like grief, fear, and climate despair can physically damage the heart and shape our health, relationships, and sense of meaning. The episode argues that acknowledging emotional pain — whether personal, relational, or planetary — is esse

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Sandeep Jauhar

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Sandeep JauharJeannie Suk GersenHui-wen SatoKnut Ivar BjørlykhaugManoush

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Heart, A Historyby Sandeep Jauhar

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NPRTED

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Voodoo Deathby Walter Cannon

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AnxietyClimate ChangeDepressionFamily FinanceLong Form JournalismMental HealthPersonal FinanceTherapy

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