Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
Dear friend; I hold you gently in the quiet of my thought. The stillness tells me clearly that this crisis in your life, which most call a breakdown, is a listening time.
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- Written by: David W. Berner
I don’t believe I have regrets. But don’t we all regret something? At least one thing? Sure, there is that artistic life I missed, the dangerous and the reclusive. But what if I had embraced that life in some way? What would that have done to my...
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
I feel it is vital for not only men, but also women, to understand the father-son wound, and to know how to heal it.
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- Written by: Tami Lynn Kent
When conception and pregnancy come with effort, or not at all, the risk is to set oneself up to feel like a failure or, alternately, to try everything in the hopes of being “good enough” to conceive.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
Some of our biggest emotional challenges come from family dynamics. It’s a rare situation where everyone in the family gets along. If you tend to be the peacekeeper, you’re usually the one carrying around the heavy emotional burden of the discord. This role also applies to your circle of friends.
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
Our survival as a species depends on our interdependence. We can only survive through love and cooperation ... and acceptance of our need for one another as well as our need to give to one another.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Cripps
Before I was a mother, I was a philosopher. As such, I can offer no cut-and-dried answers to every quandary. Rather than adhere to one philosophical worldview, I use a handful of ideas we can treat as a cornerstone of “commonsense morality.”
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- Written by: Thaddeus Hoffmeister, University of Dayton
‘Gross negligence’: why a parent like James Crumbley can be found guilty for their child’s crimes.
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- Written by: Margaret Bensfield Sullivan
For a while after my family returned from a year of travel around the world, it seemed we had ruined sightseeing for my children.
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- Written by: Judith Orloff, M.D.
It’s important to have realistic expectations of others rather than just seeing the best in them, as many loving, empathic people tend to do. Idealizing someone or ignoring their limitations is a setup for disappointment.
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- Written by: Khara Croswaite Brindle
As a parent of an estranged adult child attempting to repair the rupture and reconcile, what do you need to consider or do to make that happen? What needs to be in place for your reconciliation efforts to be successful?
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
When couples differ, they don't listen, especially when they are experiencing emotions. And when they try to talk it out, they resort to the communication violations -- "you"s (telling the other person about them), over-generalizations, and emphasizing the negative.
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- Written by: Celia Landman
After all those years looking after others, this old heart has finally learned to look after itself. Each act of kindness a stitch in this warm blanket that now covers me while I sleep.
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- Written by: Cairelle Crow
There are many ways to have a family. All are valid, and each one represents a place on the beautiful spectrum of how families exist. Each one is worthy of writing down for the future to look back upon.
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- Written by: Kimberly Hillier, University of Windsor
How having conversations with children builds their language — and strengthens family connections
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Navigating life can be likened to moving through a complex maze of decisions and challenges that test our resilience and adaptability.
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- Written by: Ora Nadrich
Each day we go out into the world and present who we are to others. But sometimes, unbeknownst to us, we present who we think we should be, or need to be. We may put on a false persona as a way to get the love and acknowledgment we deeply crave.
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- Written by: David W. McMillan, Ph.D.
There can be plenty of tension associated with Valentine's Day. One cold, dreary February 14th, I am at the grocery store at 5 p.m. In the parking lot I can see men getting out of their cars and scurrying into the store. Inside at the express lane checkout counter are five men standing in line, each holding a dozen roses...
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
In today's ever-changing online dating scene, crafting an engaging profile has become more than just showcasing good looks or clever quips.
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- Written by: Cairelle Crow
When we descend from people who’ve done terrible things, or from people who themselves have been the recipient of some sort of trauma, this energy carries itself down through our physical DNA and the genetic memory of our energetic DNA, even if we’ve never met these ancestors in person.
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- Written by: Natascha Bruckner
Thích Nh?t H?nh (Th?y) helped me to make a course correction with his teachings about Sangha—a Sanskrit word that means group, congregation, or community. Th?y taught me that we’re all stronger when we join our energies and don’t have to carry things on our own.
