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Holiday Bliss?
by Megan McDonough Ah, the glory of the holiday season. This is the time when families gather around warm fires and sip hot cocoa—not the instant kind you nuke with water but the old-fashioned kind...
Combating Career Shame with the ABCDE Model
by Denise Riebman Career Shame hides in the shadows, lurking and taunting, until it can’t be ignored. It’s the nagging feeling that you’re not living up to your own potential. It’s the fear that...
The Magical Effects of Having Fun
by Nicole Stottlemyer “Pick a card, any card,” I said to the group. It sounded like I was about to do a magic trick. But no. “We’re going to play a game,” I said with a big smile to the room full of...
Appreciate the Good
by Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar Gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness. Are we not dead to whatever we take for granted? Surely to be numb is to be dead. —David Steindl-Rast The word appreciate has two...
The Link Between SPIRE and the Yogic Koshas
by Megha Nancy Buttenheim For thousands of years, ancient yogic science has demonstrated that human beings are multidimensional. In yogic anatomy, it is said that five layers, or sheaths of...
Sustainable Growth: Is Change Closer Than You Think?
by Ruth Pearce Recently, three teenagers told me that they were truly changed people. Not because of anything bad, and not just because they’re growing up, but because positive psychology and the...
The Myths of Happiness
by Mina Simhai Two pirates walked into a party and danced ‘til 1:00 am. Sonja Lyubomirsky would have been proud! Why? Because those two pirates (me and my husband) have been married for eight years...
The Smile Habit
by Braco Pobric Many of us may have been told that we should smile more often. Studies suggest that smiling has multiple benefits on our well-being. But what if we fake a smile to purposefully...
CiPP Tours: Tears of Joy
by Nicole Stottlemyer Right before I’m about to shed a tear, my whole body feels funny. It’s as if every cell is expanding out from my heart. I feel the tear welling up. Sometimes this comes from...