How Nostalgia Can Carry Us Through Tough Times

"Ah, those were the good old days."

Who hasn't thought something like this before? These feelings of warmth and longing can be about a time in our personal lives or about an era in history. The feeling is called nostalgia.

Nostalgia is something we all experience, and according to psychologists, the past can help us make sense of the present and can even offer us tools for a more resilient future.

We discuss nostalgia; it's complications and how we can learn to use it for good.

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