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Dec 2024
57m 15s

How your coping mechanisms may be interf...

PAUL COLAIANNI
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How you cope with challenges affects... well... your whole life really! It can be helpful to know what your coping mechanisms are and where you learned them so that perhaps you can examine them and choose different responses in the future. If it were only that easy.  
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