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Managing Wellbeing

Making Stress your Friend

Ruth Tarrant

25th May 2016

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Ask any teacher if they've had a stressful week and the answer will almost always be "Yes!" But can stress actually be our friend?

Watch this 15 min TED talk from psychologist Kelly McGonigal on "How to Make Stress your Friend"

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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