Truth be told, for me, getting through Thanksgiving unscathed is less about food and more about dealing with the slings and arrows that could be 'lovingly' sent my way.
Learning how to release stress in our lives is important for many reasons, one being, how we treat people when we're stressed. What do we have to offer others when we are feeling angry, sad, or fearful?
Happiness grows from a state of mind -- a perspective about life and your engagement with it, and the actions you take to support your happiness.
Zach Lieberman found his career as a humanity-boosting computer artist by getting lost. As a fine arts graduate in the '90s, "I had to get a job," he...
It turns out that being a nag is just as unpleasant as being nagged -- so figuring out how to end nagging brings a real happiness boost to a relationship.
National Geographic Kids decided to poll our readers to find out how kids are faring in a world of doom and gloom. Guess what? Out of 613 panelists, almost 70 percent consider themselves "very happy."
See, I was the chubby kid in the house. My sister and brother were skinny, and encouraged to eat as much as they wanted. But my portions were skimpy.
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Nancy Garfinkel and Andrea Israel, authors of The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship. Here's what they have to say.
What does it take to be happy in a relationship? If you're working to improve your marriage, here are the 10 habits of happy couples.
Results of a recent survey by VibrantNation.com reveals that Boomer women's coping strategies and belief systems are reaching new levels of effectiveness in the face of heightened challenge and change.
I ran into a friend who said, "I loved the tips your parents gave you. My mother had a great one, too. She always said, 'When you're in a hurry, take your time.'"
Can meditation change the world for the better? Now, in a new book, some of today's most notable voices explore this issue - including 16 authors from New York City.
As much as most of us want to keep our home, office, car, etc. in reasonable order, it's tough. Here's a list of some myths of de-cluttering that make it harder to get rid of stuff.
The pimples have been replaced by the sunspots, but there are numerous similarities between the age of adolescence and the age of what many of us consider obsolescence.
In society, we are taught from a young age to grow up and be the perfect woman. We are expected to do it all and if we can't do it all, there is something wrong with us.
What if wisdom has more to do with 'giving up' our beliefs and attachments than 'getting' more insights or having 'more, better and different' of whatever we think is important?
There are many reason we make wrong decisons, but the major culprit is the tendency to listen to the advice of others instead of using the intuitve decision makers that Mother Nature has provided to all of us.
What is it that stops us from being the best we can be, from giving unreservedly, from caring for others more than ourselves?
when readers comment on my pieces, many seem to suggest that those who seek self-improvement are stupid, disorganized or at the end of their rope in life. Thing is, that's not true.
We often think of introversion in the negative sense. However, introversion produces the results similar to finely cooked meal. A meal that has been carefully planned.
Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act.
