A Whole New Way To Think About Stress That Changes Everything We’ve Been Taught

I’m totally gonna summarize this video for you: It’s not stress that’s making you sicker, it’s stressing out about stress being stressful that’s actually the problem. What? OK, just watch Kelly McGonigal. She says it much better than I do. At 2:24, people just have to laugh because what she’s telling us makes us sound…

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