Over-Thinking Your Life
It is healthy to be reflective, self-aware and perceptive, as these traits can serve to improve your relationships and help you to reach your goals….
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The Four Negative Thoughts Most Destructive to Happiness
All of us desire success and happiness in life. Yet, we are often the reason we are unhappy, dissatisfied, and unable to reach our goals….
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Why It’s So Easy to Be Negative (and What to Do About It)
Negative events are sticky. In seventh grade, a classmate with whom I’d had very little interaction, Scott, walked up to my locker and offered me…
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Motivate Your Child: Stop Saying, “You’re so smart!” 3 Better Ways to Praise Kids
You’re so smart!” “You’re so creative!” “You’re so . . . [insert convenient, but possibly damaging description here]” The other day during a frantic scramble…
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Heal Your Broken Heart using New Research on Self-Compassion
When we see someone else, our child or a friend, suffering from a broken heart, we know exactly what to do for them. We know that…
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An Invaluable Social and Emotional Learning Lesson: Filling in Thought Holes
“I didn’t get invited to Craig’s party . . . I’m such a loser.” “I missed the bus . . . nothing ever goes my…
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Anxiety Increases Risk of Sick Leave At Work
People call in sick to work for many reasons. They may be hungover, burnt out, taking an impromptu road trip or even legitimately sick. But…
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Buying Happiness: How Spending Habits Can Boost Positive Emotions
Hundreds of philosophers, psychologists, and religious leaders have offered commentary on the proverbial pursuit of happiness throughout the centuries. Happiness can seem like an elusive…
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Stay-at-Home Moms or Employed Moms: Who’s Happier?
If you had to choose between staying home with your kids or leaving them at a daycare while you worked, which would you choose? What…
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Does a High Income Translate Into High Happiness Levels?
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park A wealth of research exists on the connection between…
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Best U.S. Cities for Women’s Well-Being
Well-being is a broad term and encapsulates different things for different people. For some, well-being connotes a long life and good relationships, for others, it…
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Why Older People Are More Apt to Forgive and Forget
People become happier as they get older, according to recent research. Happiness significantly rises for the over 50-crowd, and while physical health may decrease as…
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Happiness Linked to a Healthier Heart
Eating right, exercising, getting enough sleep, and drinking plenty of water are often heralded as the hallmarks of health. We tend to see a healthy…
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Facebook Boosts Productivity in the Workplace
People use Facebook to stay in touch with far-off friends, to look at photo albums of a recent family wedding or vacation, or (let’s be…
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Video Games Offer Psychological Benefits
Video games cause parenting nightmares. Who hasn’t spent time tearing their child away from an Xbox- pleading with them to put the controller down and…
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Mindful Eating: Re-Thinking the Family Meal
Ever sit down to the table, devour your meal, and run off to the next activity? Amidst our busy lives full of rides to school,…
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Mindfulness Offers a Much-Needed Break from Tech Overload
As a society, we’re always on the go, so does that mean our brains are too? According to a report from the University of California, San Diego, in…
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Express Gratitude and Say “Yes” to Better Health
Gratitude is something most of us outwardly express once a year on Thanksgiving. In fact, it’s become quite cliché for families to go around the…
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Self-Compassion, a Better Motivator than Self-Criticism
At first glance, self-compassion seems awfully self-indulgent. If I fail at something, and I tell myself things like, “It’s okay” or, “You tried your best”…
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The First-Ever World Happiness Report Findings
On April 2, 2012, happiness had a leading role on the world stage: the United Nations held its Conference on Happiness at its headquarters in…
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Marriage Counseling Online May Decrease Resistance To Therapy
Getting couples into marriage therapy is challenging. Some psychologists report that people are even more likely to resist therapy for their relationship than for individual…
