Understanding the Emotional Toll of Keeping Secrets
Whether it’s hidden debt or a family skeleton, carrying around secrets can take a heavy toll on your happiness. Here are real-life stories that show how coming clean can set you free.
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Stop Seeking Love and Start Finding It
How to get past your need for approval and enjoy the love and happiness already in your grasp.
How to Be More Grateful
Boost your health, hope and happiness with a powerful dose of gratitude.
Boost Your Happiness With Continuative Verbs
To boost your happiness, use continuative verbs when recalling positive events.
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.
10 Meditations for the Workplace
Consider these mindful approaches to finding more peace and happiness at the office.
How to Move From Perfectionism to Optimalism
When you retire your perfectionist tendencies, you can start living a richer, happier life. Here’s how to get started.
Health: A Family Value
Raising a healthy family requires wisdom, determination — and a willingness to take the high road when convenience and convention beckon. Start with these healthy habits and you’ll be well on your way.
See the Connection: Understanding the Relationship Between Your Health and the Health of the Planet
Your health depends on a complex, connect-the-dots network of variables that make up your ecosystem and the systems that sustain it. Discover the keys to keeping both you and your planet healthy — by following nature’s models, and honoring life’s connections.
Resolutions Workshop: Resolutions Reconsidered
For this year’s Resolutions Workshop, we gathered up four of our favorite personal-development experts and asked them to weigh in with how — and how not — to go about crafting New Year’s resolutions. They wound up recasting the whole resolutions process and sketching out a more successful, sustainable course for personal change.
Why Your Life Sucks
Brian Johnson reviews Alan Cohen’s hilarious book on how you have the power to create a better life.
How to Embrace Milestone Birthdays
Whether you’re turning 30, 50, or 65, milestone birthdays can trigger more anxiety than excitement. Here’s how to approach each passing year with more equanimity.
The Unexpected Gifts of Imperfection
By confronting our scarier emotions — vulnerability, fear, and shame — we can learn to lead a more “wholehearted” life. Brené Brown shows us the way.
The Sixth Stage of Grief
How finding meaning in loss can help you heal.
Change Agents
Meet five visionaries who are leading the charge to better health, and a healthier world.
Primitive Workouts: How Training Like Our Ancestors Boosts Strength, Endurance, and Health
Why today’s hottest fitness regimens are looking back to our ancient, hunter-gatherer past for the best ways to get fit and live healthy.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
From Robin Sharma’s bestseller about a celebrity attorney who undergoes an unexpected transformation, wise advice on living your ideals and making every day count.
Creating Your Perfect Day Off
Turn off your phone, ignore your inbox, forget the chores, and enjoy a day of real rest and rejuvenation.
A Mind for Money: Jean Chatzky
Personal experience led finance guru Jean Chatzky to discover the deep link between financial security and a healthy, happy life. Now she’s helping the rest of us make the connection.
Happiness on the Half Shell: Oysters
As exotic appetizers for a celebratory repast, or the centerpiece for an aphrodisiac feast, oysters offer a bonanza of unexpected health benefits.
How to Let Go of Performance Identity and Create a Happier Life
Are you measuring your worth by what you get done? Here’s why it’s time to give your productivity-seeking a rest, and go in search of some fun instead.