What happens in your brain when someone else’s success suddenly feels like a reflection of your own shortcomings? In this article, Dr. D’Marti Burgos explores the neuroscience of envy, jealousy, social pain, and comparison through a distinctly compassionate lens—one that does not ask us to shame, suppress, or “fix” these very human reactions, but to understand what our nervous system may be trying to protect. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and the HEARTS Path, Dr. Burgos invites us to move from “What is wrong with me?” toward “What is this feeling trying to tell me?”—and ultimately toward the freedom to choose what happens next.

 

The accompanying conversation with Dr. Burgos on The Hanged Woman Podcast, The Neuroscience of Envy & Jealousy: Comparison, Social Pain & Self-Compassion takes this exploration even further, bringing the science into real human moments of comparison, discomfort, and self-compassion. Listen to the interview on The Hanged Woman Podcast below.

 

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