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Live Happy
Shelf-Care – How to Build More Agency in Your Life
Drawing on Martin Seligman’s book Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress, Chris Libby explores agency, the belief that we can achieve our goals, and why Seligman sees…
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Rick Hanson
Choose to Love
Drawing on a difficult experience in an important relationship, Rick Hanson reflects on what happened when he shifted his attention away from trying to control another person’s thoughts…
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A Happy Healthy Mom
A Happy, Healthy Mom: Expert Conversations
Motherhood can bring exhaustion that goes far beyond needing more sleep. Based on the book A Happy, Healthy Mom, this online series brings together experts who work with…
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Rick Hanson
Try a Softer Tone
What we say is only part of what others hear. Rick Hanson explains that communication also carries emotional subtext and messages about the relationship itself, making tone especially…
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Happier Meditation
Meeting the Inner Critic with Radical Kindness
Our inner critic can turn feelings of inadequacy, shame, or not belonging into familiar stories that we begin to accept as truth.
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Greater Good
As People Live Longer, How Can We Live Better?
After nearly two decades leading the Stanford Center on Longevity, founding director Laura Carstensen reflects on what longer lifespans mean for society.
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Greater Good
From Our Readers: 17 Activities for Starting the School Year with Joy
Joy can do more than make school feel good, research links it with learning as well as individual and collective flourishing.
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Mindful
Our Practice Starts With Ourselves—But It Doesn’t End There
Mindfulness practice may begin with ourselves, but Mark Bertin argues that its effects extend much further.
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Live Happy
Why Well-Being Is About More Than Happiness
What does it really mean to live well? A recent study published in Nature Mental Health brings together perspectives from more than 120 experts across 11 fields to…
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Rick Hanson
Know You’re a Good Person
Our sense of whether we are fundamentally “good” can be shaped by criticism, shame, painful experiences, and regrets about our own behavior.