How To Make Stress Your Friend - Kelly McGonigal
Speakers: Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist known for her popular explanation of scientific research.
Kelly McGonigal is a Health Psychologist at Stanford University with a passion for helping people learn how to be be happier and healthier. This is a brilliant talk during which Kelly outlines potentially life-saving measures we can all take to protect ourselves from stress.
She specifically describes how it is not stress itself that kills but how we think about stress that matters, and that how building relationships and connecting with us helps to build resilience. This is important information that everyone should know.
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