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Andrew Kauffmann: Awful & Transformative... Coming Face to Face with Oneself

Make Life Less Difficult

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The Benefits of Writing for Yourself

James Pennebaker, who's available on a lot of YouTube and other videos, he looked at a control group and a group that he put through his study. He asked them to write very personal, possibly quite sensitive, or challenging material about a trauma. And as the exercise went on, they could then reflect a little bit more on what does this taught me? What am I learning from this? What is this showing me?

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