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Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 28 of Yoga Land.

So today I'm going to do a special mini episode. I haven't done one in a while and I know that we're all really busy right now.

So I thought I would reflect on what's helped me the most in the past year. And when I decided to do this episode,

the thing that immediately came to mind for me was reading Kelly McGonigal's book, The Upside of Stress.

I read it last January and it was a great way to start off my year looking at my life through a slightly different but very important lens.

Kelly and I worked together when I was at Yoga Journal.

She wrote a few stories for me, and I'll link to those on the show notes page.

She's just an incredibly brilliant woman.

She's a psychologist at Stanford and a long time yoga teacher.

And what prompted her to write this book

was reading a study that challenged everything she had ever been taught about stress and everything she had been teaching in her yoga classes and in her Stanford classes about stress.

And so the study, she starts out the book by talking about the study. It was a study from

1998. It involved a sample size of 30,000 people. And in the study, the researchers asked

participants,

number one, how much stress they had experienced

in the past year, and number two,

did they believe that the stress was harmful to their health. Eight years later the

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