All posts tagged "Happiness"
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How Our Brains Can Find Peace in a Crisis
During this stressful time, it can be hard to manage the emotional challenges of sheltering in place and facing an uncertain future. We can’t rely on some of our usual..
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All I Want for Mother’s Day Is an Equitable Division
This Mother’s Day is going to be a doozy for a lotta moms out there. I have been flooded with requests from working moms for strategies to sustain their own well-being..
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Even Hungry Babies Want to Share
Why do we humans engage in altruistic behavior, from helping neighbors to donating money to people across the globe? This is a question that has confounded many scientists. It seems..
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Your Greater Good Calendar for May 2020
Our monthly Greater Good Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you find resilience in these uncertain times. To open the clickable calendar, click on..
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How to Support Teachers’ Emotional Needs Right Now
At the end of March, our team at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, along with our colleagues at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), launched a..
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How Can a Doctor Stop from Burning Out in the
Over the din of the negative pressure machine, I shouted goodbye to my patient. I zipped my way out of one of the little plastic enclosures in our emergency department..
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What Happens When You Give People the Benefit of the
Imagine you made plans with a new friend to talk on the phone. You call, but there’s no answer—and you don’t get a call back. What happened? Perhaps they got held..
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How to Stop Feeling So Helpless During Quarantine
On the Internet, the setting of our new coronavirus life, every news site has some graph predicting the future. Every influencer has advice for how to live, and every business..
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How to Reduce the Stress of Homeschooling on Everyone
With nationwide school closures in effect, many parents are now monitoring homeschooling while at the same time trying to making a living in the midst of a terrible economic crisis...
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Episode 64: Helping Kids Think About the Good
Child No, you hold it. Parent I am holding it. Parent Ready? Child I’m ready! Parent So what are you most grateful for right now? ..