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Dear depressed parents, You are in a hard place. Sharing, relating, and engaging are often the last things you feel like doing. Yet, your child needs all those things. Every day. It must be exhausting for you to work up the energy for all the hugs, the will to pay attention, or the desire to…
Our society is all about choices, options, preferences. Online dating sites make it ever easier to swipe and click only the potential dating partners you believe to be “your type.” But how important is it to narrow the dating field that way? Does focusing on one type of guy or girl mean that you’ll be…
Scenario #1: As your virtual reality avatar, you’re playing a superhero in a video game, first-person perspective. You swoop in, confront a malicious foe, entrap him, and defeat him. You feel elated. A happy smile spreads on your lips. Scenario #2: As your virtual reality avatar, you’re playing a super villain in a video game,…
Take a moment to consider your friendly neighborhood narcissists. Whoever they are. Your barber. Your boss. Your best friend’s mom. Your actual neighbor. Imagine the conversation you’re likely to have with him or her the next time you run into each other. He or she may say things like: “Hey, look what I bought… it’s…
Ask any husband, and he’ll tell you this truth: “Happy wife… happy life.” You don’t believe? Think about the established couples you know. Spend a little time considering the wife’s disposition and then the husband’s. Chances are, the more contented men you know might be a little more invested in pleasing their beloved and seem…
You’re trying your best to raise your child to become a balanced adult, right? But how do you go about doing this the right way? It frightens you to see all too many self-important, conceited, and arrogant people in this world. How can you avoid raising children that become so self-centered? The opinions that you…
You probably think you know what’s good for you. You probably think that predicting happiness means you actually know what will make you happy. So, what comes to mind? Cash-stacking lottery daydreams? True love fantasies? World travelling escape from the 9-to-5 grind? Yes, yes that all sounds good…great in fact. But will those things really…
“Just follow your heart.” “Man, use your head!” It’s not uncommon to use the words “heart” and “head” in a metaphorical sense, right? Usually, when we hear references to heart and head in figures of speech, we think that the heart represents our emotions and the head our reasoning. So, where is your true self…
You flop onto the couch. You feel utterly exhausted – mentally and physically. This day has been one big, chaotic rush. It seems like you haven’t accomplished anything. At least not anything you wanted to do. What ever happened to those big lifestyle changes you vowed to make? You wanted everything to be so good. But look…
You’ve spent a lovely afternoon in Central Park, reconnecting with old friends. The feeling of happiness is still lingering with you hours later. Now, if you could just preserve this feeling and stay in this state of mind from now on. You’d be set! Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Happiness is not a state of…