Jennifer Senior on healing after friendship break ups, grief, happiness and more including: • Jennifer’s perspective on the Bobby McIlvaine story • Lesser known theories of grieving from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross • The work involved in finding meaning in loss • Why – from an evolutionary standpoint – we hurt so badly when we lose someone we love • Commitment and sacrifice • The puzzling gap between how old you are and how old you think you are • The power and perils of friendship • Why Jennifer has chosen to focus so much of her writing on relationships She’s currently a staff writer at The Atlantic and before that she spent many years at the New York Times and New York magazine. Jennifer’s written on a vast array of topics, but she has a special knack for writing articles about the human condition that go massively, massively, viral. One such hit was a lengthy and extremely moving piece for The Atlantic that won a Pulitzer Prize. It was about a young man who died on 9/11, and the wildly varying ways in which his loved ones experienced grief. That article, called “What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind,” has now been turned into a book called, On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory. In this interview, we spend a lot of time talking about this truly fascinating yarn, but we also talk about her other articles: one about an eminent happiness researcher who died by suicide, another about why friendships often break up, and a truly delightful recent piece about the puzzling gap between how old we are and how old we think we are. Jennifer has also written a book about parenting, called All Joy and No Fun which we also reference a few times throughout. Learn more about Ten Percent Happier podcast at http://www.tenpercent.com. Check out guided meditations alongside practical teachings in the Ten Percent Happier app. Click here [https://10percenthappier.app.link/ins...] to get started. Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/jennifer-senior-583 To join a live coaching session, sign up at tenpercent.com/coaching. #podcast #grief #friendship #relationship #breakup