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Kelly McGonigal, PhD

Kelly McGonigal, PhD is a psychologist, a lecturer at Stanford University, and an award-winning science writer. She is the author of the international bestseller The Willpower Instinct, The Upside of Stress, and The Joy of Movement, and the co-author of The Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training. Her work has been published in more than thirty languages.
Joy Is a Risk Worth Taking
The Joy of Movement
The Upside of Stress
The Willpower Instinct

Books

Joy Is a Risk Worth Taking
The Joy of Movement
The Upside of Stress
The Willpower Instinct

Rethink Wellness with Radical Acceptance

Sometimes it feels like wellness culture is made for the already well: those with thin able bodies, disposable income, oodles of spare time, and decent mental health. For the rest of us, the standards of “wellness” can feel unreachable, often bound up in existing biases against race, class, gender, ability, and body size. Even if

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