Emotional Intelligence
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The 3 Instincts From the Enneagram
Increase your self-awareness and improve your relationships by getting to know your personality’s basic instincts.
The Willpower Instinct
A celebrated Stanford psychologist, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, shares her cutting-edge strategies for improving self-control.
How to Break Out of a Rut
Some routines are helpful — others hold you back. Shake things up with a new design so you can move in a healthier direction.
5 Ways to Live More Fearlessly
Wise advice from a master life coach to help you overcome angst and reach your full potential.
When Fear Keeps You Home
Strategies for enjoying life in an uncertain world.
How to Overcome ‘Never Good Enough’ Thinking
Are you ‘never good enough’? Explore this 6 strategies for self-acceptance.
Cultivate Self-Compassion
Kristin Neff’s life-changing strategies can help you be kinder to yourself.
The Confidence Game
Insights for building and maintaining indestructible trust in you.
How Toxic Anger Can Harm Your Health
Emerging research has shown that there are many science-based reasons to keep your cool.
4 Strategies to Help You Stay Calm When Calling Customer Service Reps
Four tips for a more thoughtful and positive approach to your next customer-service call.
How to Trust Your Instincts
Paid attention to your gut feelings lately? Maybe you should. Instinctive thinking is finally getting the respect it deserves.
9 Strategies to Create a More Civil, Loving Marriage
Why are we so rude to our spouses, yet courteous, kind, and patient with complete strangers? Paying attention to good manners and small niceties may be the key to sustaining the vitality of your relationships.
The Myth of Happiness — and How to Be Truly Happy
Want long-lasting joy? Shifts in your mindset can make all the difference.
4 Simple Questions to Uncovering Happiness
Elisha Goldstein shares his four tips for uncovering happiness.
How Practicing Compassion Boosts Happiness and Well-Being
Top-tier research confirms that being compassionate is good for us, altering our physiology to boost not just happiness but well-being.
Compassion and Health: An Interview With James Doty, MD
How compassion and social connection have a powerful effect on our health, happiness, and well-being.
The Art of the Relapse: How to Stop Falling Back Into Old Habits
Instead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.
Why Thinking Positively Doesn’t (Always) Work
How to stay emotionally authentic — without becoming a grouch.
6 Ways to Discover Real Gratitude
Why you should not overdo gratitude exercises, plus five more tips on how to nurture authentic appreciation.
How To Reinvent Yourself: 10 Tips for Transformative Change
Want to move beyond your life’s current limits? Shift your motive from self-presentation to service.
How to Be 10 Percent Happier
After an on-air panic attack, ABC newsman Dan Harris embarked on a journey of faith — and discovered a path to well-being.