There's nothing like falling in love. The world fills with colour, life is full of promise and possibility, your mood dances a jig, and your body fizzes with excitement and euphoria. Heady …
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Finding purpose when languishing
I've spent this week working on a new post on the neuroscience of how limerence fades, drawing on the literature of habituation and hedonic adaptation, but if I'm honest it's been a bit of a …
Limerence research survey
Following on from a previous research project, I was recently contacted by a team from the University of Sussex in the UK who are running a new project, in collaboration with the team from Sheffield. …
A good video on limerence
Very busy week for me this week, but here's a video on limerence, with lot of good insights: https://youtu.be/9l5ALCPEBkc I particularly enjoyed the sections on being more aware of what role …
Case study: I don’t want to devalue my limerent object
Rachel got in touch recently about a scenario that is very difficult to cope with - not difficult because of any grand drama, or threats to life and limb, but because there is no simple escape from …
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On grief
My father died last week. I'm now immersed in a new world that I was previously unaware of - or rather, a world that always existed alongside me but that I could blissfully ignore. Funeral …