Your Happiness Calendar for June 2022
By Kira M. Newman | May 30, 2022
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Does Your Child Have an Unhealthy Relationship With Technology?
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Episode 119: How to Say “Sorry” Like You Mean It
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Keys to Well-Being
Purpose
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To psychologists, purpose is an abiding intention to achieve a long-term goal that is both personally meaningful and makes a positive mark on…
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Life Lessons We Should Have Learned in Our 20s
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Bridging Differences
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Americans are increasingly divided along social and political lines. The evidence for this polarization can be found in our most intimate…
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Can Real-Life Conversations Actually Make a Dent in Political Conflict?
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Compassion
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Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…
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Why Sensitivity Is a Strength in Boys
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Gratitude
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Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…
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Life Lessons We Should Have Learned in Our 20s
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Mindfulness
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Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through…
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Five Ways to Help Someone With Depression
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Diversity
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For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…
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How Talking About Race Can Bring Black Families Together
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Awe
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Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…
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Social Connection
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When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…
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Five Ways to Help Someone With Depression
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Happiness
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Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…
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Life Lessons We Should Have Learned in Our 20s
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Happiness at Work
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Forgiveness
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Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…
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Empathy
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The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…
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Why Sensitivity Is a Strength in Boys
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Altruism
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Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…
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How to Talk So People Will Cooperate
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Quote of the Day
“Every conversation we have with a child in our lives is an opportunity to strengthen our relationship, build their resilience and our own, and foster a more compassionate society.”― Five Tips for Talking With Kids About What’s Going On in the World, by Shauna Tominey