March 2022 - Half Full - The Network of Care

Can Purpose Help Us in Hard Times?

According to a Harris-Kumanu survey conducted in October 2020, only a third of U.S. employees know their company’s purpose. And less than a third feel that they—or their coworkers—share that purpose. Without a sense of shared purpose at work, the survey...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2022 4:26 AM by Greater Good Articles

Is Your Brain Foggy? Here Are Five Ways to Clear It

The other day, my friend Kristina told me that one evening she unintentionally locked her husband in a downstairs part of their house. She had known he was down there, but while distractedly locking the door for the night, forgot completely. She didn...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2022 3:56 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Help Teens Put Less Pressure on Themselves

My friend’s teen daughter, Belen, had a big upcoming exam this past semester. Starting a week before the exam, she studied incessantly. Every possible available moment. The night before the exam, she hardly slept—she was too nervous, tossing and turning...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2022 3:26 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Talk With Kids About Scary News

Families across the world have been troubled by the news and images from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. When our children turn to us to help them understand scary news, we might feel afraid of saying too much—or not enough—and so avoid a conversation that...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2022 5:26 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Mindfulness Make You Better at Apologizing?

It’s not always easy to apologize. When we hurt someone, we may be loath to acknowledge our transgression because it makes us feel guilty, conflicts with our beliefs about being a good person, or means accepting that we are imperfect human beings. We...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2022 5:40 AM by Greater Good Articles

Five Ways to Help Students Get Through Grief

In the fall of 2021, the Centers for Disease Control released a study that highlighted the ways in which grief and inequity are intertwined. Among the more than 140,000 children who had lost a primary or secondary caregiver to COVID-19 in the United States...

Published Fri, Mar 11 2022 4:42 AM by Greater Good Articles

What to Do When Love Breaks Your Heart

Heartbreak is inevitable. Romances end, loved ones die, friends let us down. These experiences might be universal, but their impact can still be devastating. This is what science journalist Florence Williams discovered after her husband of 25 years unexpectedly...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2022 5:10 AM by Greater Good Articles

Eleven Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity

For many people, the past year was filled with ups and downs, to an unusual degree. Widespread vaccination against COVID-19 allowed our worlds to open up a bit more, but that promise of greater freedom seemed dashed when the Omicron wave rolled over us...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2022 3:20 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Hurts Latino Well-Being

The media plays a huge part in shaping our understanding of the world, including how people feel about themselves and others. Coverage of immigration is no different. And as one of the most highly contentious political issues of our time, immigration...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2022 4:04 AM by Greater Good Articles

World Happiness Report Reveals More Sadness and More Kindness During COVID-19

When bad things happen—wars, pandemics, shootings—the optimists of the world tend to turn their attention to all the goodness that still exists: the heroic fighters, the frontline workers, the givers and the helpers. But are we just deluding ourselves...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2022 5:41 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Middle Schoolers Can Teach Us About Respect

What teacher does not want a more respectful classroom? Days are packed full with new content to teach, tests to give and grade, and unexpected demands on teachers’ time and attention. Students’ respect for teachers can go a long way toward reminding...

Published Wed, Mar 23 2022 4:40 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Tips for Sticking to a Meditation Practice

Have you heard about the many health benefits of meditation—but find yourself struggling to start or keep up a meditation practice? You’re not alone. Despite how meditation instructions are usually simple (for example, to maintain a gentle focus on the...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2022 4:33 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Resist Manipulation by Embracing All Your Identities

Vladimir Putin took a psychologically astute step last year, almost certainly in preparation for last month’s invasion of Ukraine. In April of 2020, he finalized an amendment to Russian law that allowed people of former Soviet republics to become dual...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2022 3:21 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Is Sympathetic Joy and How Can You Feel More of It?

Our cats love my partner. When presented with two laps, the cats will choose hers, almost every time. In the morning, our kitten Leif nurses on her shoulder, his little paws making biscuits. Am I jealous? Nope. I feel really happy seeing a woman I love...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2022 4:50 AM by Greater Good Articles

How COVID-19 Humbled Me—and Made Me a Better Doctor

It was spring of 2020, and I was in full personal protective equipment at the bedside of an elderly woman with COVID-19 pneumonia. I was trying facilitate a FaceTime call with her family when she started drifting out of consciousness. “Doctor, please...

Published Tue, Mar 08 2022 4:26 AM by Greater Good Articles

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