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15 Ways to Get Someone Out of Your Head
By Donna Jackson Nakazawa — 2014
How can we stop being caught up in other people’s thoughts? How can we stop thinking about a person or situation—what we should have or could have done differently—when the same thoughts keep looping back, rewinding, and playing through our minds again and again?
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