Pathways to Happiness with Nena Lavonne

Stuck in the Past? How to Stop Romanticizing Past Memories & Move On With Life / Letting Go


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Today's episode discusses the psychology behind why we tend to romanticize the past so much and long for the way things were, and offers strategies for how we can finally let go and move forward in our lives. It talks about "rosy retrospection" , which is a psychological phenomenon in which we tend to judge the past disproportionately more positively than the present, and how we can begin to separate our glamorized version of memories from reality. When we romanticize someone or somethi...
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Pathways to Happiness with Nena LavonneBy Nena Lavonne