How a simple Facebook letter can increase your happiness
In the 1700s the prominent belief was that people would have to be threatened and punished to do good deeds for one another. The common saying was that people had to “be threatened with hell, and promised heaven” in order to be positive players in society. Along came Frances Hutcheson, philosopher and teacher, who noticed that people are at their happiest when they are helping another human being. It was recognized that stepping outside of oneself and not being self-absorbed lead to the happiest of times.
Appreciate what YOU have instead of focusing on what others have!
Are you in a loving relationship but can't stop wondering if there's something better out there?
When my grandparents got married in the 1930s, I’m quite certain neither one of them had the kind of engagement anxiety I see among people today. My grandmother did experience grief about leaving her mother and two sisters. The difficult feelings were displaced onto her wedding dress and veil (a mosquito net so an understandable disappointment on her part!), but she didn’t spend a moment wondering if she was making the best possible choice or if she loved my grandfather enough, if he was her soul mate or any of the other anxiety-based questions that wreak havoc on my clients’ minds.
This Thanksgiving, we share gratitude for our love stages -- whatever they may be.
Our coupled-up staff and bloggers share what they're thankful for during the holidays.
This holiday season, we are thankful to be married, engaged or in relationships. But aside from the men in our lives, we are grateful for so much more. Here are just a few things.
This Thanksgiving, we share gratitude for our love stages -- whatever they may be.
10 reasons I'm thankful for being single, or anything else that comes my way, on Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving can really suck when you're single. I should know, I've flown solo to six consecutive turkey dinners. A few years ago, when I thought I was going to have my first coupled-up T-day in ages, I got dumped out-of-the-blue two days before.
Sometimes in the middle of daily life we are reminded to give thanks.
As I started packing to head home from vacation, I flipped on the news. After a week of dancing, competition, pool time, dancing, more pool time and more dancing, it was a shock to find myself watching on the ground footage of a major firefight in Afghanistan. For more than five hours, American soldiers were pinned down. Seven medi-vac units went in with one pilot being shot mid-flight. Final toll as of airing…6 Dead, 7 Wounded.
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