All posts tagged "Happiness"
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How to Help Teens Handle the Loss of Proms and
Yesterday at dinner, one of my children was sad and irritated. She was offended by our mere existence. “What’s wrong with her now?” one of the other kids asked unkindly,..
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What Happens When We Lose Our Social Rituals?
When the shelter-in-place orders came down in California, the first thing I thought of was my cousin’s wedding—the one I was supposed to officiate. I’d been working on creating a..
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How to Protect Your Well-Being at Work During a Crisis
Daily life has changed drastically for people across the globe, including in our work lives. Many of us are now working remotely for the first time, not able to work..
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How to Help Your Marriage Survive Lockdown
Dinner at home was not on the menu when Jennifer Monahan planned her 10th wedding anniversary. But that was before the coronavirus pandemic drove hundreds of millions of couples around..
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Stuck at Home? How to Find Awe and Beauty Indoors
The coronavirus snuck up on us, bringing our way of life to a sudden halt. Here we are now, sheltering at home, shocked by the rising death count, worrying about..
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How to Keep Coronavirus Worries from Disrupting Your Sleep
Many people I know have been complaining lately about losing sleep. It’s no surprise why. All of us are feeling increased stress and worry, and experiencing changes in our work..
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What Happy People Think About Luck
Etymologically, the prefix “hap” means luck or fortune, as you might recognize in words like perhaps, happenstance, haphazard, or—most relevant here—happy. Many other languages also show this overlap between “happy”..
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Helping Others Can Help You Cope with Lockdown
It’s easy to feel, these days, that we’re swirling in a coronavirus-induced vortex of helplessness. In many regions, COVID-19 case counts are jumping dramatically. Health care workers face impossible decisions..
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How Parents Can Help Kids Thrive in an Uncertain Future
When psychologist Madeline Levine wrote The Price of Privilege 14 years ago, she wanted to persuade parents that pushing kids to succeed at any cost was making them suffer. But..
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Episode 63: Remembering to Breathe
DACHER KELTNER Hi, this Dacher Keltner. When you think about the fear and uncertainty we feel about Coronavirus, it’s hard to imagine how delivery workers, grocery store employees,..