happiness

Your Happiness Calendar for Educators for May 2025

Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you reconnect with the natural world and inspire wonder in your school community. We also invite you to join our free community meeting for educators in May as we welcome special guest John Muir Laws of the […]

World Happiness Report Highlights the Importance of…

Do you live in a kind community, a kind society, a kind country? This may be a fraught question for some of us today, as we see evidence of unkindness (and worse) in the news at every turn. But according to the World Happiness Report 2025, how benevolent our society is—and, separately, how benevolent we […]

How to Create Your Own Happiness Bubble in a World of Chaos

Source: Unsplash by Cacquie Nasciemento I recently had a session with a client who has struggled with debiliitating anxiety. When I asked him the standard how are you doing question, he responded with a big smile and said “I’m doing really well. I’m using all of my new skills and living in my own happiness […]

What Harry Styles Fans Taught Me About Happiness

For my daughter’s 15th birthday, I treated her to a Harry Styles concert. There I was, a dad surrounded by 15,000 giddy, elaborately dressed teenage girls in a sports stadium. You may smirk at the vision of a wizened professor in a sea of boas and sequins. But the experience shot through me, a neuroscientist […]

How Does Your Personality Affect Your Happiness?

Many of us don’t necessarily have the kind of lives we want. We may not enjoy intimate relationships, jobs that fulfill us, the ideal home, or enough income to do what we want to do. But do these circumstances dictate our happiness? According to a new study led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University and […]

The Science of Happiness: How to Cultivate Joy and Positivity

Title: The Science of Happiness: How to Cultivate Joy and Positivity Subtitle: Explore the latest research on happiness and learn proven strategies for cultivating joy and positivity in your life. Introduction: Happiness is a fundamental human desire, but achieving it can often feel elusive. Many people believe that happiness is simply a matter of good […]