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Building Resilience: How to Make Stress Your Friend

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Psychologist Kelly McGonigal outlines how we can build resilience by connecting with and caring for other people during times of stress.

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How to start a conversation—and why it matters

If your friend is hurting, starting a real conversation about what they’re going through may be the most helpful thing you can do. Here are some tips on how to start one.

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Jack Saul on Overcoming Trauma and Building Resilience

A leading trauma expert and clinical psychologist explains why talking about trauma helps the healing process.

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The Surprising Science of Happiness

Dan Gilbert, author of “Stumbling on Happiness” and social psychologist challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Gilbert describes how our “psychological immune system” can help us find happiness—synthetic or natural—when things don’t go as planned.

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