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Oct 2023
55m 7s

Healing 2.0: Change Your Story, Change Y...

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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We all tell stories about ourselves, often without realizing we’re doing so. How we frame those stories can profoundly shape our lives. In the kickoff episode to our month-long series on healing, psychologist Jonathan Adler shares how to tell our stories in ways that enhance our wellbeing.

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