family Tag

by Sheila Frye You could be a young independent couple with your whole lives ahead of you, or you could be a seasoned married couple with marital life battle scars that have given you that hardened hue. Whichever relationship circumstance you find yourself in, one thing’s...

So much of our happiness can be attributed to the quality of our relationships.  And so much of our key relationships comes down to family.  So a happy family is a happy life; and a happy family depends on the right sorts of positive conversations.  Which is why...

George Burns once famously joked that "happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." But on a serious note, a happy family can significantly enhance the quality of our lives as well as our health and wellbeing.  Real happiness is very much interlinked...

We all have multiple domains within our lives - we have our working or professional lives, our spiritual, health and wellbeing, social and (among other things) our family lives.  All of these are important for our happiness and with the weekend just around the corner, when...

As I spend some time with my family and away from the office I've been pondering happiness in a different way. For a variety of reasons, right now happiness for me includes...

Check out this interesting press release from Psychological Science Does thinking about time or money make you happier? A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who are made to think about time plan to spend...

Dr. Karen Reivich, who regularly writes for Fishful Thinking, focuses and writes some great stuff for parents looking to apply the principles of positive psychology to bring more happiness and resilience to their children and families. In this, her latest newsletter, she writes about finding...