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Gratitude: Overused or Underrated?

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How to Use Worrying Expertise to Your Advantage

Expert Worrier? Don’t Worry About It.

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A Mindful Approach to Suffering

It’s OK to be OK

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I remember the first time I heard that pain is inevitable, but suffering is an option. I absolutely didn’t buy it. In fact, I was incensed. In my Italian Catholic family, suffering is simply what you do when something horrible happens.  Or even, when something horrible might happen.  We are a family overflowing with empathy. We love […]

The Surprise About Suffering

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You know those movies that you’ve seen a million times?  The ones you saw in the theater when they first came out and then again and again because they were in the HBO rotation forever?  If you’re under 40, you’ll have to trust me here. Die Hard is one of those movies for me, and last week, […]

Making Fists with Your Feet

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Noise.  Just the word can up-level your stress – yet interestingly, silence can have the same effect.  It’s not what’s happening on the outside of your head that’s creating the problem – it’s the endless swirl of thoughts inside.  The noise, or lack of it, simply complicates your thinking process and adds to your feeling of […]

Audio Peace

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