Thanksgiving Day is one of the most important holidays of the year. If you’ve got a lot on your plate and are worried about how to host a dinner minus the stress, don’t worry. You’ve come to the right place. Here are some solutions to help you through the holiday: 1. Fake a Sick We… Read More ›
Category Archives: Happiness
Ultimate Tips on Celebrating Thanksgiving with a Big Family
Thanksgiving may appear to be a mind-boggling task when you have a big family and you have to invite everyone over for a major turkey supper. It may all appear as though a test, however, thanksgiving supper doesn’t need to be troublesome as long as you remain sorted out and have an arrangement. From shopping… Read More ›
You Can Create Your Happiness
How do you create your own happiness? As a society, we are always looking for that one thing that is going to make us happy. We think “if I lose those 10 pounds, I will be so much happier”; “if I buy the house”; “if I get the job”; etc. While achieving a goal or… Read More ›
Stay-At-Home Moms Are Working Too
There was another post that caught my eye on social media the other day. It was a hand-written comparison list titled “Should Mothers Have Careers?” I have posted the image below so you can see it for yourself. This list is vastly unfair and unrealistic. It is media like this that gives stay-at-home moms so… Read More ›
Should our kids really be the ‘meaning of life?’
The other day I ran across a post on Facebook that made me stop and think. The post was a picture of a mother and son holding hands and walking on the beach. The son asked his mom “what is the meaning of life,” and the mom replied, “you are.” It was shared more than… Read More ›
There is no age limit for intimacy
Human beings like intimacy. We need to be touched and to feel sexually wanted and attractive. We want to experience the benefits of good old sexual pleasure—the release of endorphins, the natural stress buster, and to feel good. These needs don’t end as we age, they might change a bit, but they don’t end. I… Read More ›
Our Need for Connection and What We Can Do About it
Human connection is about sharing experiences, ideas, and feelings with others. It is a sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves. And, it is crucial to our happiness, our health, and our overall survival as a species. Yet, why are we so bad at connecting? In our ever-connected world, where we can catch up… Read More ›
How to fit mindfulness into your busy life
The evidence is mounting—being mindful throughout your day can have major impacts on your health, happiness, stress and anxiety levels. It can be a game changer. But, so often I hear — I am so busy. How am I supposed to fit something else in? I am here to tell you that being mindful isn’t… Read More ›
How Keeping Secrets Impacts Your Mental Health
Turns out, keeping secrets can actually be bad for you. We all have things we don’t want to share with others for one reason or another. We all have things we were told to “never tell anyone.” But keeping all that information inside isn’t good for us. We need people to talk to. We need… Read More ›
You don’t need an apology to move on
The other day a friend of mine got into an argument with another and started dwelling on how this person had wronged her. She insisted that she needed an apology. The situation got me thinking. Frequently we hold on to the idea that we need an apology before we can move on, but what we… Read More ›
