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Stressed out? These 8 skills can help boost mood and reduce anxiety

Life is stressful. Whether it’s work or relationship issues or you’re worrying about politics or global conflict, it can be overwhelming. NPR’s Stress Less: A quest to reclaim your calm aims to help.

September 30, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey

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If you want to stress less, join NPR's quest to reclaim your calm

Life can be stressful, and how you manage it is key. We have science-backed tips to help you cope. Get five weekly newsletters and a master class in stress management: Join us.

September 30, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey
Elias Abdi Abdullahi, an Ethiopian farmer, carries a bunch of uprooted weeds from the wheat field he farms with his wife. They're trying to increase their crop yields in an area often threatened by conflict and drought.

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What is 'food resilience'? Ask these Ethiopian farmers facing conflict and drought

Many farmers in Ethiopia have lost valuable land for growing crops. They're learning to change the way they work to make the most out of what they have.

August 10, 2024
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  • Willem Marx
We all face stress. Resilience skills can make a big difference.

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What stresses you out? What helps you cope? We want to hear from you

NPR is planning coverage on the stressors people face and how they find relief. Please tell us what keeps you up at night and what coping tips and techniques you'd recommend.

July 13, 2024
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  • NPR's Science Desk
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton has studied Auschwitz survivors, Vietnam war veterans, survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and people who'd been subjected to repression by the Chinese government. He reflects on what he's learned in his new book, <em>Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic.</em>

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What survivors of trauma have taught this eminent psychiatrist about hope

In his new book, 97-year-old Robert Jay Lifton shares the "survivor wisdom" he's learned from those who've lived through terrible events — the Holocaust, Hiroshima, POW camps.

October 09, 2023
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  • Joanne Silberner
Jeff Nelligan (center left) stands with his three sons in December 2019.

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Dad Draws On Maori Roots To Raise 3 Resilient Sons. Step 1: Send Them On A Milk Run

Jeff Nelligan, whose Maori great-grandmother left New Zealand and settled in the U.S., explains his parenting strategies in his book Four Lessons From My Three Sons: How You Can Raise Resilient Kids.

June 19, 2021
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff

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Staying Strong During Lockdown Means Reaching Out — And Working Your Mind, Too

Keeping your brain busy but relaxed by volunteering, gardening, or learning a new language, for example, can help you cope with hard times now and in the future, psychiatrists say.

August 18, 2020
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  • April Fulton
On the left, a cover of the Bruce Feiler's book "Life is in the Transitions: Mastering Change in a Nonlinear Age." On the right, a photo of Bruce Feiler, wearing all black, smiling and sitting on the stairs of a fire escape.

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Amid Disruptions And Upheavals, Author Bruce Feiler Reminds Us That 'Life Is In The Transitions'

Author Bruce Feiler joined On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott for one of the Atlanta History Center's virtual author talks. He discussed his new book, Life is in the Transitions.

July 23, 2020
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jake Troyer
Spending quality time with kids and listening deeply to them is one way to help them tame anxiety. Here Mariano Noesi and Maryam Jernigan-Noesi play with their 4-year-old son Carter.  Jernigan-Noesi is a child psychologist.

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Kids Feel Pandemic Stress Too. Here's How To Help Them Thrive

For children, the distress shows itself in difficult moods, stomachaches or even regression to behaviors from earlier childhood. Here are seven ideas to help anxious kids feel better.

July 11, 2020
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  • Patti Neighmond

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