A lot has happened societally over the last several years. People have had to wrestle with numerous challenges and adapt. And still now many are contemplating where we are and what it means moving forward. When there...
Category - Happiness
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
When This is Over
This past year has felt to like it’s been sucked up into a vacuum. Many of us are rubbing the Covid sleep out of our eyes with cautious optimism as vaccine rollouts accelerate and Covid numbers decline nationally...
How Will You Be Different?
As the weeks cascade into months of avoidance of our human kind to save lives, new norms are settling in. How strange to think that not so long ago seeing people with their faces covered by masks in the grocery store...
Isolation Life
This pandemic sucks. But something really interesting is happening when people are forced to slow down. Aside from thrashing around with kids in online school, creative bursts and home projects, people are also having...
Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem
Linda Graham, MFT puts the spotlight on self-compassion and dissects the book by Dr. Kristin Neff, PhD with the same title. Self-compassion is strongly linked to resilience as well as a counter to depression and...
Linda Graham, MFT
12 Indications You are Living an Authentic Life
Authenticity in your daily living is a sweet congruence of your beliefs, values and actions. Your inner world and outer world align and there is a synchronicity or balance between who you truly are as an individual and...
It’s February, Write a Love Letter to Yourself
The beginning of February signals that Valentines Day is near. For those in loving, intimate relationships who put a lot of meaning into this holiday, they may be all atwitter about how they will spend time with a...
Be Still
Being quiet and still can be counter to what our fast paced society encourages and often rewards. The more you do and achieve, the more you accomplish, the more successes and accolades, the better. Multitasking is...
3 Key Questions for Your Well-Being Check Up
If you spend time with medical check ups or car tune ups, what about your emotional health? Do you take the time to check in and really reflect upon on how you’re doing? The holiday and New Year period is often a...
Happiness: Questions to Ask Yourself…and a Caveat
Happiness is something that anyone alive desires. With much of your happiness in your control (40% says Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD), you are more empowered than you think to make legitimate changes to your emotional health...
