Happiness Break: A Note to Self on Forgiveness, with Alex Elle (Encore)
Letting go of our regrets can motivate us to improve and help us grow. Alex Elle, a poet and breathwork coach, guides us through a meditation to…
Your Happiness Calendar for September 2024
This month, look for reasons to be hopeful.
Five Ways to Tap Into Other People’s Wisdom
Getting other people to share their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives with you will help you learn, grow, and become a better person.
How to Fully Appreciate Your Loving Relationships
Research suggests that savoring moments of connection can make us feel good and enhance our relationships—particularly for Latinos.
How Your Relationships Affect Your Health
A new book argues that, to be healthy, we should prioritize our social health as much as our physical and mental health.
The Healing Effects of Experiencing Wildlife (The Science of Happiness Podcast)
Safe encounters with wildlife can deepen our appreciation for nature, and for other people. Craig Foster of “My Octopus Teacher” shares his…
Ten Ways of Talking About Intellectual Humility
The Greater Good Science Center awarded grants to support nonfiction stories on intellectual humility. Here are 10 of the podcast series.
How Men and Women Can Be Friends (Without Sex Getting in the Way)
Of course heterosexual men and woman can be friends—if they have incentives to manage emotional and sexual attraction.
How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Are you struggling to discover your purpose? That may be because you feel isolated from other people. Here's how you can overcome that.
What Inside Out 2 Reveals About the Diversity of Emotions
The new Pixar film explores adolescence by bringing its complicated feelings to life.
Your Happiness Calendar for September 2024
This month, look for reasons to be hopeful.
How to Heal Anxious Attachment by Prioritizing Your Own Needs
People with anxious attachment fear rejection, often feeling like they are less worthy than others. Rediscovering your self and purpose can help.
Five Ways to Tap Into Other People’s Wisdom
Getting other people to share their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives with you will help you learn, grow, and become a better person.
How to Fight Without Hurting Your Relationship
John and Julie Gottman explain what to do—and what to avoid—so your arguments actually make your relationship stronger.
Six Ways to Deal With Someone Who Wronged You
Here's what we have learned from 25 years of research about forgiveness—and its alternatives.
How to Stop Overthinking Your Relationship
Ruminating about your relationship isn't a healthy way to solve any problems—and it may be a way to avoid your real feelings.