Summary of Florence Williams's Heartbreak

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 My love affair with college began in a hurricane. I’d been in college exactly five weeks when I felt lucky to be there, on Yale’s gothic campus surrounded by crisp mid-Atlantic air. I had been ready to leave home.
#2 I fell in love with a boy named Miles who had started the hiking orientation program. He was both safe and reckless, and I found him irresistible. I was excited to climb the stone bell tower and experience the storm.
#3 My husband and I used to kayak a particular stretch of the Gunnison River in western Colorado. It features several big, technical rapids that scare me, especially Boulder Garden. One weekend, the water was high and I didn’t like the way the forceful current piled into a giant rock on river left. I could picture my kayak getting pinned against it.
#4 The author’s marriage fell apart when she stopped putting her husband first, and he began to find someone new to love. She was heartbroken, but she still loved him.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669357469
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Florence Williams's Heartbreak
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

My love affair with college began in a hurricane. I’d been in college exactly five weeks when I felt lucky to be there, on Yale’s gothic campus surrounded by crisp mid-Atlantic air. I had been ready to leave home.

#2

I fell in love with a boy named Miles who had started the hiking orientation program. He was both safe and reckless, and I found him irresistible. I was excited to climb the stone bell tower and experience the storm.

#3

My husband and I used to kayak a particular stretch of the Gunnison River in western Colorado. It features several big, technical rapids that scare me, especially Boulder Garden. One weekend, the water was high and I didn’t like the way the forceful current piled into a giant rock on river left. I could picture my kayak getting pinned against it.

#4

The author’s marriage fell apart when she stopped putting her husband first, and he began to find someone new to love. She was heartbroken, but she still loved him.

#5

The heart can be broken in many ways. It can be shattered suddenly, and those initial moments of shock are enough to ignite a chain reaction that can have long-lasting effects.

#6

Emma was 37 when she met C, a man who seemed to understand her flaws and loved her for them. They had plans to leave the city and raise a child on the acacia grasslands. But when he told her he wanted to date other women, she found out he had already gotten pregnant.

#7

Emma had a heart attack and died 15 months after she met C. She was still trying to get over him, spending a lot of time in nature, kayaking, walking, and singing.

#8

The Japanese term takotsubo describes a condition in which patients appear to be having a regular heart attack, but the arteries are free from the typical blockages that cause cardiac failure. Instead, a portion of the left ventricle wildly underperforms, causing it to balloon in compensation.

#9

The case of Joplin, Missouri, shows the close relationship between heart health and love. The town was hit by an EF-5 tornado in 2011, which left many people grieving and searching for meaning. The butterfly garden was created to help the community heal.

#10

On the day of the tornado, Chris Cotten had been on the job as the city’s director of Parks and Recreation for just 86 days. He headed out to inspect the tree damage, but instead saw entire neighborhoods flattened, roads cluttered and unrecognizable, and people shrieking.

#11

Some survivors spoke of the presence of butterflies, spectral and protective. Nature reminds us that we are not the center of everything, and that we are all connected.

#12

The tornado that struck the park five years later, in 2017, did not even phase Emma. But for many people, heartbreak tears up all familiar territory, leaving behind trauma, physiological chaos, and a shattered identity.

#13

I had to go on vacation with my family after my husband moved out. I didn’t want to go, but I didn’t know how to be without him. Vacations had always been when things between us felt best, our rhythms in sync.

#14

I was headed to Aspen to give a couple of talks as part of a creative-class workshop aimed at public health and sustainability. I’d just written a book about the science behind why being in nature makes us healthier, and the perk was that I sometimes got invited to ridiculously pretty places to discuss it.

#15

After being dumped, it doesn’t mean you stop loving the person. In fact, you might even love them more. It’s just that you’ve been through a painful experience, and your brain is trying to understand what happened.

#16

When it comes to heartbreak, we become uncharacteristically histrionic. We think about our rejecting beloveds for 85 percent of our waking hours, and we act pretty nuts, with lack of emotion control being a regular occurrence since the initial breakup.

#17

When you’re dumped, you go through two basic stages: protest and resignation. During the protest stage, you try to win your partner back, which is based on a cocktail of extra dopamine and norepinephrine flooding your brain. During the resignation stage, people largely give up the protests and bargaining, and the dopamine drops off.

#18

The author went to visit Fisher in Colorado, and while she was happy to talk about heartbreak, what really ignites her is love. She explained that romantic love is like a sleeping cat that can be awakened at any time.

#19