How to Cope - Step Back and Get Some Distance

How to Cope: Step Back and Get Some Distance

Try This Coping Tool the Next Time You Get Bad News

By Tim Jarvis
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the October 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Researchers have discovered a simple technique called self-distancing. Try it the next time you get bad news.

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