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TED Talk: How to Make Stress Your Friend

Kelly McGonigal, health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, shares inspiring new research showing that stress may only negatively affect your health if you believe it will. Learn strategies for stress reduction by reframing how you view stress and making stress your friend. You can reframe by turning it from a negative into a positive and using it to build resilience and connection to others.

By Kelly McGonigal, health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University

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