
Heartbreak
Florence Williams
For fans of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a uniquely immersive audiobook, merging science and self-discovery to change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.
When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn’t expect is that she’ll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of “social pain” to learn why heartbreak hurts so much and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong.
In Williams’s search for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, she tries it all–and listeners can hear it all–including exclusive (astonishing) bonus material from Williams’s most intimate moments: live and unscripted therapy sessions, gabfests with girlfriends, and the making and breaking of new romantic relationships. Join her in the laboratory as she tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, hear every sound of the wilderness as she searches for awe as an antidote to loneliness, and be a fly on the wall as she is guided through psilocybin and MDMA therapy.
Narrated by the author and accompanied by in-the-moment diary recordings and interviews, Heartbreak is an immersive audiobook that taps into one of the most shared experiences in the animal kingdom: heartbreak.
Duration - 10h 37m.
Author - Florence Williams.
Narrator - Florence Williams.
Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2022 Florence Williams ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
For fans of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a uniquely immersive audiobook, merging science and self-discovery to change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love. When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn’t expect is that she’ll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of “social pain” to learn why heartbreak hurts so much and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. In Williams’s search for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, she tries it all–and listeners can hear it all–including exclusive (astonishing) bonus material from Williams’s most intimate moments: live and unscripted therapy sessions, gabfests with girlfriends, and the making and breaking of new romantic relationships. Join her in the laboratory as she tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, hear every sound of the wilderness as she searches for awe as an antidote to loneliness, and be a fly on the wall as she is guided through psilocybin and MDMA therapy. Narrated by the author and accompanied by in-the-moment diary recordings and interviews, Heartbreak is an immersive audiobook that taps into one of the most shared experiences in the animal kingdom: heartbreak. Duration - 10h 37m. Author - Florence Williams. Narrator - Florence Williams. Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025. Copyright - © 2022 Florence Williams ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:01:16
Author's Note
Duration:00:01:54
Introduction
Duration:00:17:50
Part One: Shatter: Chapter 1: Bridge to Nowhere
Duration:00:16:07
Part One: Shatter: Chapter 2: The Heart
Duration:00:28:21
Part One: Shatter: Chapter 3: Hindu Kush
Duration:00:25:34
Part One: Shatter: Chapter 4: A Costly Life Event
Duration:00:32:00
Part One: Shatter: Chapter 5: OG Sin
Duration:00:31:31
Part Two: Alone: Chapter 6: All Pain is One Malady: Rejection
Duration:00:22:02
Part Two: Alone: Chapter 7: Heartbreak Hotel: Grief
Duration:00:26:39
Part Two: Alone: Chapter 8: Welcome to the Eremocene: Attachment
Duration:00:32:04
Part Two: Alone: Chapter 9: Your Cells Know Everything
Duration:00:17:44
Part Two: Alone: Chapter 10: The Body Doesn't Lie
Duration:00:42:00
Part Two: Alone: Chapter 11: Shaggy Birds
Duration:00:26:57
Part Two: Alone: Chapter 12: The Wizards of Lonesome
Duration:00:25:10
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 13: Truth Serum, Part One
Duration:00:26:15
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 14: High Island: Warmth
Duration:00:26:26
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 15: Excuse My Piloerection: The Science of Awe
Duration:00:19:29
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 16: Split Mountain
Duration:00:52:07
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 17: Confluence
Duration:00:36:56
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 18: The Happiness That Matters: Social Well-Being
Duration:00:15:33
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 19: Truth Serum, Part Two
Duration:00:08:41
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 20: The Divorce Drug
Duration:00:22:00
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 21: Open Sesame
Duration:00:23:22
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 22: Man in the Kastle: Opioids, Love, and the Science of Recovery
Duration:00:20:37
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 23: The Future of Heartbreak
Duration:00:12:09
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 24: The Personality of the Body
Duration:00:13:45
Part Three: Awe: Chapter 25: A Boat of Lettuce
Duration:00:10:26
Ending Credits
Duration:00:02:06