By Amira Posner — 2015
Through utilizing various mind-body techniques, women struggling with infertility can mitigate emotional stress and emerge with new perspectives.
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CLEAR ALL
How can we stop being caught up in other people’s thoughts? How can we stop thinking about a person or situation—what we should have or could have done differently—when the same thoughts keep looping back, rewinding, and playing through our minds again and again?
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