All posts tagged "Happiness"
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Can Urban and Rural Americans Get on the Same Page
The entire United States is grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic. However, not all areas have been equally affected so far—and there are huge differences between how urban and rural..
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Three Tips from a Therapist for Calming Your Coronavirus Anxiety
In the early days of COVID-19, we faced many difficult decisions in everyday life: trying to weigh risk and decide whether to meet up or stay home, send kids to..
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How to Be Intentional About Consuming Coronavirus News
My inbox is flooded with news about the coronavirus outbreak. Every hour, I’m hearing about how many people are infected and dying, how woefully unprepared we are for this pandemic,..
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Your Greater Good Calendar for April 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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When Coronavirus Anxiety Is Useful and When It Isn’t
Excessive worry about COVID-19 is becoming a mental health pandemic unto itself. Fears and questions about the future can keep us up at night, distract us during the day, and..
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How Can We Cooperate When the Pandemic Is Driving Us
Right now, our society is being tested on our ability to cooperate. To fight the novel coronavirus pandemic, we need to be able to act as one body and do..
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Dear Christine: How Can Divorced Parents Get on the Same
Dear Christine, I’m a divorced dad who remarried, with a son and a stepdaughter. When shelter-in-place hit and school was canceled, everything changed. We all started working at home—or not working..
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Why Taking Care of Your Own Well-Being Helps Others
Friday happened to be the International Day of Happiness, but people around the world feel anything but happy right now. Many of us are stressed and worried, wondering what this..
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Episode 62: Staying Close While Self-Distancing
DACHER KELTNER Hi, it’s Dacher Keltner. Very often, our greatest challenges and trials in life—combat, natural disaster, economic trauma, mortality—return us to our nobler tendencies, and our sense of greater..
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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person
Have you ever been told that you are “too sensitive?” If so, you’re not alone. Sensitivity implies a certain heightened reaction to external stimuli: experiences, noise, chatter, others’ emotional expression,..