Change is a hard thing for us sometimes; but if we want to have better results for the new year than we did in the previous, something has to change.  If you've made changes this year...

One of the things that can take away from our happiness is when we are spending time and energy on things that don’t matter as much to us, and we are getting to spend less time and energy on...

All the areas of health in your life combine to create one overall picture of your well-being.  While you may focus on only one area of your health and think you’re in good shape, you...

If you’ve ever been hurt by someone or had someone do something to you that really seemed unfair, rude, or even cruel, you know how much that event can affect even just your mood. When we...

There’s a theory called the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy which states that if someone hears an untrue statement about themselves, then hears it repeated, they will be influenced by the repeated...

We tend to use the word trauma pretty frequently, and it’s very often used to describe an incident or a situation that caused us some fear, or which had some sort of lasting effect on us in a...

If you recall Maslow’s hierarchy, the middle layer is about connection and our need for having a sense of belonging with other people. But while we need to have other people in our lives, the...

If I were to ask you, “What do you need as the basics in your life?” you may say things like a car, a house, money, clothes, and food. But what we actually need, as human beings, is...

Last week I discussed how positive and negative influences can affect your brain chemistry. If you made your own lists of positives & negatives in your life, were you surprised at all by what...

You may think that someone being happier could just be a decision they make. You may know people who constantly see the negative in everything, or who tend to let everything get them down. While...

Sometimes it feels hard to be happy even when everything in life seems to be going our way. Imagine having a health condition or some sort of physical obstacle that made each and every day just a...

Have you ever felt sad or stressed, and someone said to you, “Don’t be sad,” or “Don’t stress about that?” They may even add, “Just be happy and think...