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You Can Train Your Brain to Thrive During Trauma & Stress—Here’s How

By Elizabeth A. Stanley — 2019

What if we told you that you could actually train your brain to cope after trauma? Elizabeth A. Stanley’s new book, Widen the Window, focuses on the concept of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT), a practice she’s taught to thousands of individuals in civilian and military high-stress environments.

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A Stanford Psychologist Has a Simple Mental Exercise for Tackling Student Stress

Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford, thinks we spend too much time worrying about stress and not enough harnessing it to learn and grow.

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Jenny Anderson
2017
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Science Shows that Stress Has an Upside. Here’s How to Make It Work for You

In Kelly McGonigal’s new book, The Upside of Stress, she argues that stress can “transform fear into courage, isolation into connection, and suffering into meaning.”

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Brigid Schulte
2015
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The Big Brain Benefits of Meditation

Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.

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Kelly McGonigal
2010
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Kelly McGonigal: Can We Reframe the Way We Think About Stress?

Guy Raz from NPR interviews research psychologist Kelly McGonical about how we can be better at understanding stress.

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Guy Raz
2019
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