By Dr. Dani Niaz, PhD | Neuronest Yoga | The Science of Grief & the Art of Healing Series (Part 6) 🌙 Introduction: The Myth of the Lone Survivor When grief isolates you, it whispers the cruelest lie — that no one could ever understand. But grief is one of the most universal human experiences on Earth. Across continents, languages, and faiths, people have sat in the same ache you carry now. You do not have to carry it alone. There are hands — both near and far — ready to hold

By Dr. Dani Niaz, PhD | Neuronest Yoga | The Science of Grief & the Art of Healing Series (Part 5) 🌙 Introduction: The Self That Grief Leaves Behind When grief arrives, it doesn’t just take what we love — it takes who we were when that love existed. Suddenly the world feels foreign, our habits meaningless, our reflection unfamiliar. But here lies the secret of renewal: identity is not fixed. Like the nervous system itself, it is plastic — malleable, repairable, capable of be

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By Dr. Dani Niaz, PhD | Neuronest Yoga | The Science of Grief & the Art of Healing Series (Part 1) 🌙 Introduction: When the Mind Meets the Heartbreak Grief isn’t just emotional — it’s neurological. When someone we love is gone, the brain doesn’t simply “move on.” It scrambles to make sense of an absence that feels like a wound in both time and tissue. Neuroscientists have found that the same neural circuits that create love and attachment are also responsible for the pain of