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Simple Self-Care Win: New Underwear
Do not underestimate the happiness boost new underwear can bring. It’s hard to feel like you’re an amazing creature on the road to making your dreams come true if the first bit of clothing you put on each day is raggedy, ill-fitting, stretched out, ugly or otherwise unworthy of your fabulousness. It’s a fact of […]
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Poetic Inspiration (that I didn’t write)
As an English major, I was exposed to a lot of poetry in school. This was not one of the poems in the canon, but it struck me the moment I read it and I often think about its opening lines as I consider life and choices. I hope it inspires you as much as […]
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Deepak Chopra’s Self-Care Checklist
(What I learned from week one of Chopra’s “Healing the Whole Self” program) January’s happiness binge is underway: Deepak Chopra’s free workshop started this week! (I’m also taking UC Berkeley’s Science of Happiness course, which also just started. Plus Oprah is doing a 10-week interview series with Eckhart Tolle. Holy happiness overload!) Deepak (may I […]
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80 Baby Carrots
Experts say adults should consume at least 25 grams of fiber a day for optimum health, which can be found in 80 baby carrots. Now, I love baby carrots (especially dunked in hummus), but even stoner munchies wouldn’t have me eating 80 of them. So here are a few other tasty ways to get your […]
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Tiny Tip
Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Make Your Passwords Purposeful
This tip is so tiny and so easy, but yields big benefits: Make your passwords into affirmations. Most of us have to enter computer and account passwords multiple times a day, so why not make them opportunities for little bursts of support or encouragement? At my journalism job, we had to change our account passwords […]
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Science of Happiness
Science of Happiness, Week One: What is happiness?
The free Science of Happiness class from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center is PACKED with content. I binged the first week’s class in one day, which included at least a dozen articles and videos. Here are some of my takeaways: — Happiness takes work. While everyone has the capacity to increase their happiness and […]
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I have no idea what I’m doing.
This announcement brought to you by Captain Obvious. I’ve never created a blog before. I’ve never quit my job before without having another one first. I’ve never written a book before, or a book proposal. I would say I’ve never gone after my dreams with this much gusto, but that’s not true. When I first […]
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Self-care checklist check-in
I’ve been working on developing my self-care checklist for a few days, inspired by Julia Cameron’s advice/bit o’wisdom: “Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.” I believe the reason this is true is because we need to develop self-love to initiate meaningful action (and just meaning) in our lives, and the idea […]
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Happiness Binge
January is shaping up to be the Month of Gurus and Life Improvement. I have signed up and intend to complete three online classes this month about my favorite subject: living a good life. The first, which started this week, is The Science of Happiness by UC Berkeley professors Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas. It’s […]
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If Diane Young won’t change your mind…
When this Vampire Weekend song came on during my run this morning, I felt like the Universe played it just for me. Do you know the tune? What I hear is, “If dyin’ young won’t change your mind, baby, baby, baby, baby right on time.” And what that says to me is: We don’t know […]
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