• A frequent, primarily positive, context-specific bittersweet emotion that combines elements of happiness and sadness with a sense of yearning and loss.

• Feeling nostalgic involves putitng ourselves at the center of a story in which we're reminsicing about people we are colse to or about important events in our lives. Nostalgia is more likely to be triggered by neagtive moods, like lonliness, and by our struggles to find meaning in our current lives.

• Nostalgia can serve us psychologically, b increasing positive feelings and helping us naviagate successfully the vicissitudes of daily lifke.

• Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 76

• A yearning for the way things used to be in our often idealized and self-protective version of the past. P. 79

Nostalgia emerged as a double edged sword, a tool for both connection and disconnection. It can be an imaginary refuge from a world we don't undertstand and a gowhistle used to resist important growth in families, organizations, and the broader culture .

Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 76

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