It's easy to say, "Chill out, go meditate, take a walk and just shake it off." But when stress entrenches itself in your day-to-day life, those recommendations can fall short of the kind of help you need. Maybe you're a college student, maybe a soldier; maybe a single mother of 4, maybe a middle age man out of work for an extended period of time; maybe a cancer patient. Though some techniques seem to work universally for most people, the trick to reducing and managing stress is to find...
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