Highly Functional
16. Gardening Through Grief — What We Actually Know About Loss, Trauma & Cannabis
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Grief isn't just sadness; neuroscience shows it activates the same reward circuitry as craving, and complex grief overlaps heavily with trauma responses like PTSD. This episode widens the lens to include climate grief and "lost future" mourning for millennials, digs into what the actual cannabinoid research on PTSD and nightmares shows, and gets personal about the different shapes grief can take…