love Tag

via PsychologyToday by Erica Slotter There’s a common belief that, in order to truly love others, you must first love yourself. In order to have happy and healthy relationships with others, especially in romantic relationships, the thinking goes, individuals must first believe that they are lovable...

29 April, 2016

So many of us cause ourselves so much unhappiness by hating on our bodies! Becaues, by definition, almost all of us are NOT super-models, there's always something that's "imperfect" about our physical being. But that doesn't mean we have to hate it; in fact if we...

08 March, 2016

via the Huffington Post by Kimanzi Constable Life is short. In the last year, I lost the man I consider one of my father figures -- my grandfather. He died in December at 87 years old. When I think back on our time together, my memories are...

13 August, 2015

Is there anything more important for happiness than love?  Surely when one loves and is loved then happiness results?  In this article from MindBodyGreen, David Arenson proposes 4 mantras for love and happiness...

15 December, 2014

Self-love is NOT vanity.  Real happiness is NOT selfishness or narcisism.  But, and this is an important but, we do need to love and care for ourselves before we can love and care for others.  Which is why we were happy when we stumbled upon this article from...

28 July, 2014

Those of you who regularly read my writings and/or who've heard me speak will know that I often go out of my way to differentiate between real happiness and hedonism or selfishness (which is NOT real happiness).  One of several key differences is that real happiness...

26 June, 2014

by Ashley Wilhite from TinyBuddha  “Don’t worry about what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman I didn’t spend two years and $100,000 for a master’s degree in counseling...

15 August, 2013

by Dr. Happy (follow on Twitter - HERE) As a long term student of life and happiness, I can say without hopefully sounding immodest that I've read quite widely in the areas of psychology, philosophy, spirituality, health, wellbeing and more!  And although I might be a slow...

03 June, 2013