Women and Happiness

Why I Love Being Single

Lauren Jacobs | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Single Life, Women, Dating Advice, NY Culture, Women and Happiness, Living Alone, Single Woman, Why I Love Being Single, Women News

For some reason -- perhaps the impending marriages of three of my close friends -- I feel the desire, and even the need, to say this: I am truly happy as a single person.

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Should Women be More Selfish?

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Women and Stress, Women, Caregiving, Women and Family, Women and Happiness, Linnie Frank Bailey, Women and Love, Women and Relationships, Women and Work, Women and Aging, Women News

Women of all stripes have a problem with saying NO!

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What's Your Joy Trigger?

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: What Makes You Happy, Joy Trigger, Happiness Triggers, #Joytrigger, Women and Happiness, Sisters, What Makes People Happy, Happiness, Sources of Happiness, Women News

It makes sense that human beings can't be "on" all the time, that a little bit of pleasure now and then helps you do the harder things in your life.

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The Sane Way To Have It All

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Depression, Supermom, Working Mothers, Having It All, Work-Life Balance, Trade-Offs, Feminism, Career & Money, Women and Happiness, Working Mothers Depression, Video, Women News

While the Enjoli woman of yore was intimidating enough with her bacon and her pan, today the ideal involves even more balls in the air: in addition to raising her children perfectly (and feeding them only organic bacon) and making the most of her potential at the office, she's untouched by the hands of time, doing work that's deeply satisfying and meaningful for the world at large, finding personal and spiritual fulfillment and capable of a perfect downward-facing dog.

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Men Are Unhappy: Good News For Women?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Ellen Galinski, Worklife Balance, The New Male Mystique, Life Choices, The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness, Betsey Stevenson, Families and Work Institute, Chris M. Herbst, Justin Wolfers, Happiness Sstudy, Happiness and Women, Women and Happiness, National Happiness, Happiness, Women News

This just in: Men are as miserable as women. At least that's what we learn from a new study by Arizona State professor Chris M. Herbst, who suggests t...

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Are You Playing the Scarcity Game?

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: How to Be Happy, Happiness Tips, Judith Rich, Life Happiness, Women and Happiness, Happiness Advice, Happiness, Healthy Living News

In the end, it doesn't matter how much one has. If you live in an inner conversation of scarcity and lack of awareness about and acceptance of who you are, you are not much better off than a homeless person.

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THE H WORD:There Is Nothing Better Than Happiness For Mother's Day

Vaishali | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Inspiration, Inexpensive Gifts, Mother's Day, Depak Chopra, Women and Happiness, Marianne Williamson, Happiness, Happiness Tips, Healthy Living News

The added perk to being in the present moment with an open heart is that the tyranny of the ego loses its power in that state.

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Want to Increase Happiness? Unplug From Technology (VIDEO)

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: How to Be Happy, Unplug and Recharge, Happiness Tips, Happiness Technology, Life Happiness, Women and Happiness, Happiness and Weight Gain, Video, Healthy Living News

The idea is that disconnecting with technology will enable me to reconnect with who I really am, what is truly important to me, and what really makes me happy.

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Overcoming My Fear on the Road to Happiness

Randy Taran | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Happiness Project, Women and Happiness, Pursuit of Happiness, OWN Network, Oprah, The Hap, Happiness Project, Happiness Tips, Happy Place, Video, Healthy Living News

Ask yourself, what is the scariest thing that you could do? For me, it's revealing what's most important me, to a large group of people. Not only did I not seek out these opportunities, I ran from them!

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Are You Serving a Calling or Feeding a Craving?

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Work Satisfaction, Fulfillment, Women in Business, Passion, Life Purpose, Life Coaching, Career, Women and Happiness, The Inner Life, Happiness, Healthy Living News

The best indicator that you are serving a calling is when you can learn to not care about what other people think. You know you are making a difference on some scale.

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The Queen of Your Own Life ... Queen Lite

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Harlequin, Cindy Ratzlaff, Kathy Kinney, Queen, The Queen of Your Own Life, The Queen of My Self, Urban Shaman, Donna Henes, Women and Happiness, Women's Self-Esteem, Women's Self-Care, Lite, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Claim your Beauty. We all need to do this. I'll never forget the day I realized that although I was never going to look like Christy Brinkley, Christy Brinkley was never going to look like me either.

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The Bearable Lightness of Being

Jan Shepherd | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: How to Be Happy, Life Happiness, Women and Happiness, Happiness Advice, Happiness Tips, Jan Shepherd, Being Happy, Happiness, Healthy Living News

How many times can we watch the same footage of oil-soaked birds, commandos mounting an assault or refugees living in squalid conditions before we begin to believe that our world has tilted out of orbit?

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How To Stop Worrying and Love the World

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women and Happiness, Happiness, How to Be Happy, Secrets of Happiness, Deepak Chopra, Happiness Tips, Healthy Living News

In a crisis, the mind begins to obsess as a way to gain a sense of control over events that are uncontrollable. But this isn't really a solution. May I give some good reasons for not worrying?

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Raising a Special Needs Child

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Guilt, Acceptance, Self-Acceptance, Women and Happiness, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Parenting, Babies, The Inner Life, Children's Health, Rumination, Spirituality, Happiness, Healthy Living News

It took me years to stop blaming myself for something over which I now accept I had no control. With no appeasement from the medical work-ups, I was overwhelmed with guilt.

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Quiz: Are YOU the Annoying One?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Happiness Study, How to Be Happy, Happiness Tips, Being Happy, Gretchen Rubin, Happiness Project, Women and Happiness, Healthy Living News

We all see the world through our own eyes, and it can be hard to recognize how our words and actions appear to other people.

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10 Easy Ways to Be Happy Now: Exercising the Happiness Muscle

Randy Taran | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Happiness Methods, How to Be Happy, The Happiness Project, Pursuit of Happiness, Women and Happiness, Happiness Tips, The Hap, Happiness Project, Happy Place, Healthy Living News

How can we develop that happiness muscle, and start pumping up our happiness? Here are 10 easy tips that can make a real difference.

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3 Tips for a Spectacular YOU, Oh Really?

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Happiness, Happiness Study, How to Be Happy, Happiness Tips, Life Happiness, Women and Happiness, Healthy Living News

Think about the person who attracts you and who you want to be around. It's the person that's full of life, who is happy, grateful and who can always find kind words to say and share a smile.

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The World Taking It Outta You? Cheer up by Giving Back!

Karen Salmansohn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, The Bounce Back Book, Women and Happiness, Bouncing Back, Martin Selignman, Karen Salmansohn, Happiness, Happiness Tips, Philanthropy Happiness, The Giving Life, Relationship Advice, Healthy Living News

Feel like the world has taken it out of you? If so, give back to the world. Yes, sometimes you have to step outside of yourself to remove yourself from your dark mood.

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David Letterman, Married Men and the Single Women Who Want Them

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Single Women Who Have Affairs With Married Men, David Letterman Affairs, Robert Joel Halderman, David Letterman Extortion, Women and Happiness, How Do Women Increase Their Self-Esteem, David Letterman, Extra-Marital Affairs, Entertainment News

In the aftermath of the Letterman saga, I would like to follow the topic of single women having affairs with married men. Why are women dissing other women by sleeping with their husbands.

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What Our Kids Have To Teach Us About Happiness

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Children's Perception and Wisdom, Children's Interviews, Huffington Post, Russell Bischop, Featured Contributor, Women and Happiness, Happiness, Video, Healthy Living News

Over the past month, you've probably come across quite the conversation about happiness studies. And three weeks ago, I set out to discover whatever I could about this subject, as it applies to our youth.

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Unplug and Recharge: 3 Key Ways to Be 100% Yourself

Sara Avant Stover | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Self Improvement, Self-Esteem, Wellness, Women and Happiness, Self Image, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Healthy Living News

The world's fully of beautiful, talented, and creative beings. We can't always be the best at everything we do, but we can be ourselves. This we have control over. This is more reasonable.

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The Happiness Myth

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Happiness Study, Men and Happiness, Women and Happiness, Healthy Living News

So women are not as happy as they used to be. That's what Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers claim in their much-touted book, The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.

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What Does A Strong Life Look Like?

Marcus Buckingham | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Find Your Strongest Life, Women?S Happiness: What We Know for Certain, Strong Life Test, What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently, Women and Happiness, Tmbc, Men and Happiness, Happiness, Strong Moments, Happier, How to Be Happy, Marcus Buckingham, Women?S Happiness, Health, Happy, Strong Life, What?S Happening to Women?S Happiness, Healthy Living News

We interviewed women who had bucked the "happiness decline" and who were living lives in which they looked forward to the day ahead, they frequently got so caught up in what they were doing that they lost track of time.

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Not Happy? Who's Dragging You Down?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Inspiration, The Inner Life, The Secret, Happiness, Women and Happiness, Aspiration, Aspirational Goal, Healthy Living News

I've found that buying into individual tales of difficulty and challenges only serves to add to the burden of overcoming life's obstacles and improving one's experience of well being.

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Women Are Unhappy? And You're Surprised?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women and Happiness, Marcus Buckingham, Happiness, Fulfillment, The Inner Life, Russell Bishop, Healthy Living News

My experience in working with thousands of individuals over the past 30 years leads me to believe there is very little correlation between material world success and happiness or fulfillment.

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