Loss changes more than what is taken away. It changes how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and the future we imagined. This week, TEDMED explores a question that medicine, psychology, and the arts continue to confront: how do people create meaning after profound loss? Not by erasing grief, but by finding ways to live alongside it through expression, structure, and connection over time.
After losing her husband to cancer, cellist and composer Zoë Keating turned to music as a way of navigating grief. Her TEDMED Talk explores how creativity can help us carry loss, find meaning, and continue rebuilding life without leaving the past behind.
Psychiatrist and concert pianist Richard Kogan examines the connection between creativity, suffering, and healing. Drawing on both medicine and music, he explores how artistic expression can help individuals make sense of hardship and build resilience.
Healing can take many forms. TEDMED’s Heal with Music and Art playlist brings together artists, clinicians, and researchers to explore how creativity, expression, and connection can support well-being in ways that extend beyond traditional medical care.
A lighter, restorative set on art, connection, sound, nature, and the ways people rebuild attention and meaning.
From the beep of cardiac monitors to the blare of alarms, hospitals are often jarring places to be from an auditory perspective. And for patients, the combined dissonant…
Our connection to nature – and to the world around us – is difficult to measure. Yet, it is being documented in marvelous ways by Nordic Nature Artists…
Violinist Robert Gupta’s experience in neurobiology drives him to search for and to share the powerful connection between music and healing, particularly for mental illness.
Zoë Keating was working as a successful cellist and composer when her husband, Jeff, got sick with stage IV non-smokers lung cancer. Her life was turned upside down—she…
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