# Nostalgia - a hidden element of wellbeing? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/nostalgia-a-hidden-element-of-wellbeing Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/nostalgia-a-hidden-element-of-wellbeing.md Podcast: [Saving Lives In Slow Motion](https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011) Published: 2026-03-12T20:47:56+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/savinglivesinslowmotion/episodes/nostalgia-a-hidden-element-of-wellbeing Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/60b20104ffcfab00117e6199/e/69b295f6c891dc74e880d874/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/episodes/nostalgia-a-hidden-element-of-wellbeing Duration seconds: 921 ## Resource Nostalgia is not strictly medical although it was coined a term of a condition of melancholy but in more recent years studies show that it may be a more important part of wellbeing than we thought. Links: Nostalgia as a disease:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22002573 Clay Routledge:  https://www.clayroutledge.com/ Nostalgia and wellbeing:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36669249/ Man’s Search For Meaning:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning The past makes the present meaningful:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21787094/ Music and nostalgia:  https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~crsi/Sedikides, My own nostalgia tips: music, photos, places, journalling and rituals. Save your life in slow motion and those of others by subscribing now and sharing. Thank you for listening and for your support. It means a lot to me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/episodes/nostalgia-a-hidden-element-of-wellbeing/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/saving-lives-in-slow-motion-4449011/nostalgia-a-hidden-element-of-wellbeing.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.