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...
Category - Happiness
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Are You Hard on Yourself?
Rick Hanson, PhD and author of Hardwiring Happiness, looks at the benefit of practicing forgiveness if you have a tendency to be your own worst critic. He shares his thoughts about how to allow your “inner...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Feel Whole
Rick Hanson, PhD encourages us to be open to all of our experiences rather than be derailed by the parts that can get in the way. He offers a practice in how to “widen the spotlight” to feel more whole, less...
3 Ways You Might be Sabotaging Your Growth
If you are like most people, you’d prefer happiness over unhappiness. You probably know and accept that life cannot always dish out platefuls of sweet cherry pie with whipped cream or provide a sunlit dappled...
Happiness and Life Meaning: Both Important to Well-Being
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the power of life meaning, perhaps even over happiness. She offers an exercise in which to invite both to foster resilience and well-being. Research was recently published in the Journal of...
Linda Graham, MFT
Do Positive Experiences “Stick to Your Ribs?” Take in the Good.
Rick Hanson, PhD takes a look at how the brain’s negativity bias sets many of us up to struggle with allowing positive experiences to stick, making managing stress and resilience challenging. Scientists believe...
With Happiness, It’s Not “One Size Fits All”
What makes you happy doesn’t necessarily do it for the next. In fact, it’s a mistake to try to follow a set of cookie-cutter steps to attaining the happiness pot of gold (which is less static then fluid...
Tools for Resilience: Cultivating Self-Compassion
Linda Graham, MFT explores the power of self compassion to increase resilience, an important element of managing stress. There are tools and techniques of “self-directed neuroplasticity” that will help you...
Being in the Moment and Why it Matters
Mindfulness. Presence. Being in the moment. All three of the above essentially mean the same thing – and practicing them can bring you more emotional and relationship health. It’s a practice, a...
Reflections on The How of Happiness
Research shows that the pursuit – or creation – of happiness is not a selfish endeavor at all. People who deliberately cultivate happiness – in flavors of joy, contentment, love, pride, awe, –...
