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...
Who doesn’t want to be happy? 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. Some of the...
If you asked any person on the street whether they would like to be happy, it’s safe to bet that the vast majority would say yes. If you asked any person on the street IF they were happy, this is where things...
Most kids have it down when it comes to being in the moment. They live for the now and get fully absorbed in their activities. Without the burden of responsibilities they master the art of play, wonderment and mindful...
What are happy people up to? What do they do that others don’t? Happiness is not a “one size fits all” but there are a number of things you can work into your life to increase positive emotions and...
Linda Graham, MFT, explores the use of gratitude as a buffer and offers tools to help practice gratitude even in the most difficult of times. Gratitude works its magic – to buffer us from falling into swamps of...
The third in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, based on Healthy Brain, Happy Life by Dr. Wendy Suzuki, a neuroscientist at NYU. Dr. Suzuki acknowledges her own struggles, as so many of us have, with sticking to a formal...
Lately, many have been talking about the power of mindfulness practices. It’s more than a tool to focus attention and reduce stress, as helpful as those outcomes are. Mindfulness – defined as presence...
It’s not actually realistic to boil down the elements of happiness into one element but some researchers believe that if you could, gratitude would be it. Gratitude might even be the path to a more satisfied life...
If you’re like many, your life is go-go-go. You do your best to balance family, friends, social life, work and other obligations. The expectations that you and others place on you are always there. Making it...