Do you remember coming home from school starving?  I do! And I was always irritated. When I was a boy I was constantly hungry, and massive Italian dinners supplemented by cereal for breakfast and a lame public school lunch did not provide me with the sustenance to learn or behave well. By my early 20s I […]

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(audio version available at the end of this post) Last time we explored stress.  A book by Kelly McGonigal entitled The Upside of Stress challenges the conventional wisdom that assumes all stress is hazardous to our health. She argues that instead of viewing stress as evil, in fact stress arises when something we care about is at stake. […]

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