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A New Way to Increase Your Emotional Connection
By Barbara L. Fredrickson — 2015
The author of Love 2.O shares a fast, simple way to boost your feelings of involvement and well-being.
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.3