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Your Happiness Calendar for May 2021

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you take care of your mental and physical health. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below. (Please note: If you are having trouble clicking...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2021 8:21 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Turn a Toxic Conflict Into a Good One

We’ve all been there: Locked in a heated argument, blood pressure rising, fixated on our next point rather than actually listening to what the other person has to say. Even after it ends, it doesn’t really end—we keep ruminating on it for hours, days...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2021 6:56 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Optimism Helps You Achieve Goals With Less Stress

When you hear the word optimism, what comes to mind? Does it resonate as a tried-and-true life practice? Or perhaps it sounds too Pollyanna-ish for your taste? Optimism is essentially hopefulness about the future, a general belief that things will work...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2021 6:56 AM by Greater Good Articles

The Six Keys to Positive Communication

When I was 15 years old, I enrolled in a program to study English in what seemed like the middle of nowhere, also known as Iowa. Having grown up in France and Switzerland, I spoke zero English. In Iowa, I couldn’t understand what people were telling me...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2021 5:47 AM by Greater Good Articles

What is Your Dating Personality?

When I was a teen, there was a popular hit song by Johnny Lee called “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.” The song spoke to the hope and the challenge of finding love—a message that still rings true. Many people want to fall in love and find intimacy...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2021 3:18 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Online Stereotypes About Depression Can Make It Worse

Rates of depression have tripled in the U.S. since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and most recent estimates suggest these numbers remain elevated compared with pre-pandemic rates of mental health problems. Even before the pandemic, depression...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2021 5:11 AM by Greater Good Articles

Calm a Distressed Mind by Changing Your Environment

One of the biggest contributors to our happiness is something we barely pay attention to: the voice inside our own heads. As psychologist Ethan Kross describes in his new book Chatter, that voice is constantly analyzing the situations we’re in, reflecting...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2021 6:41 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Gratitude Help You Live More Sustainably?

Among the first visual symbols of the COVID-19 pandemic were grocery store shelves picked clean by shoppers hoarding pasta and toilet paper. The bare shelves revealed a deeply ingrained human tendency—to grasp for all that’s left when supplies run low...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2021 5:39 AM by Greater Good Articles

Just Thinking About Cooperation Can Make You Less Prejudiced

As human beings, we tend to favor people we think are like us or have something in common with us—and we’re often wary of people who are different. Evolution made us this way so that we could find allies against outside threats. The problem comes when...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2021 8:13 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Grief Feels Like During COVID-19

One day last fall, I arrived on the sixth-floor nursing unit to find something didn’t feel right. When I saw a nursing colleague with tears streaming down her face, my heart dropped. “Dr. Hass, K. died last night,” she said, and started to sob. I stood...

Published Mon, Apr 19 2021 7:01 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can We Build a Better Normal After the Pandemic?

With the end of the pandemic in sight and a longing to return to some resemblance of normalcy, Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki thinks the harrowing experience of the past year is a unique opportunity to reset people’s expectations about many aspects...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2021 5:50 AM by Greater Good Articles

Eight of Our Favorite Asian American Picture Books

Across the United States, communities have rallied in support of Asian Americans after horrific attacks and targeted murders. Groups like Compassion Oakland have assembled volunteers to chaperone Asian American elders so they can walk safely throughout...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2021 6:29 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Support Teens’ Mental Health During COVID and Beyond

It’s been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic changed life as we knew it. Many families across the country have been living in “survival mode.” Tweens and teens continue to experience a range of emotions, including sadness, anger, and fear. If...

Published Mon, Apr 12 2021 6:13 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Surprising Ways to Get a Better Night’s Sleep

A lot of us are suffering from lack of sleep these days. According the Centers for Disease Control, about 35% of adult Americans regularly get less than seven hours of sleep per night, with African Americans and other minority groups sleeping even less...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2021 6:56 AM by Greater Good Articles

Six Tips to Avoid Being Overwhelmed by the News

It can often feel difficult to escape a bad news story. The news plays a prominent role in our lives, something that has been emphasized even further during the past year. The pandemic has brought with it daily news briefings and a seemingly neverending...

Published Wed, Apr 07 2021 7:11 AM by Greater Good Articles

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