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Kelly McGonigal

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Health, Mind & Body, Social Sciences, Science

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Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, an award-winning science journalist, and a leading expert on the mind-body relationship. Her teaching and writing focus on the applications of psychological science to personal health and happiness, as well as public policy and social change.

She is the author of The Willpower Instinct: How Self Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of it (Penguin/Avery 2012), Yoga for Pain Relief (New Harbinger 2009), and The Neuroscience of Change: A Compassion-Based Guide to Personal Transformation (Sounds True Audio, 2012).

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Addicted to Your Devices? 3 Ways to Break Free

About two years ago, some participants in my Science of Willpower course started to name "technology addiction" as their main willpower challenge. It's only accelerated since then, as we've fallen more fully in love with our devices.

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	The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It 4.30 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Yoga for Pain Relief: Simple Practices to Calm Your Mind and Heal Your Chronic Pain by Kelly McGonigal (Goodreads Author), Timothy Mccall (Foreword) 4.46 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Neuroscience of Change: A Compassion-Based Program for Personal Transformation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Maximum Willpower: How to master the new science of self-control 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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