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Happiness Habits: Eudaimonic Wellbeing, A Deeper Happiness
This is the second in a series of articles based on the twelve happiness habits in The Little Book of Happiness. Habits 4 and 5 are Harness Your Strengths and Live with Meaning, which are both forms...
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Happiness Habits: Learn Optimism
This is the third in a series of articles based on the twelve happiness habits in The Little Book of Happiness. Habit 6 is to Learn Optimism, one of the most reliable ways to boost your wellbeing. The...
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Happiness Habits: Value Relationships
This is the fourth in a series of articles based on the twelve happiness habits in The Little Book of Happiness. Habit 7 is to Value Relationships, which are our number one source of wellbeing. And a...
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Happiness Habits: Get Physical
This is the fifth in a series of articles based on the twelve happiness habits in The Little Book of Happiness. Habit 9 is to Get Physical and Habit 10 is to Turn to Nature. Get physical and Go...
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World Gratitude Day
We all want to be happy. It’s one of the most important life goals, if not the most, and the science of happiness has a simple and effective practice to increase happiness. Gratitude is probably...
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Writing for Wellbeing
With Dr Megan Hayes, author of Write Yourself Happy. A great deal of scientific research into what is called expressive writing, pioneered by Prof James Pennebaker at the University of Texas, which has...
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The Keys to Kindness
“If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion” The Dalai Lama I’m a devotee of kindness. It is one of the twelve happiness habits I write about in...
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Menopause, Mental Health and Me Part 1
98% of women attending Dr Louise Newson’s menopause clinic are experiencing psychological symptoms and yet the impact of the menopause on mental health is often overlooked. Miriam Akhtar shares her own...
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Menopause, Mental Health and Me Part 2
Miriam Akhtar describes how positive psychology can help you manage the psychological symptoms of menopause and flourish after fifty. Part 1 on my own experience of the menopause transition. It can be...
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Four thoughts on Resilience
I love to write but the discipline of writing doesn’t come easily. The only benefit seems to be a cleaner house from all the procrastination and displacement activity. So, to strengthen the neural...
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