Happiness Library

• Supporting Your 20-Something Child into Healthy Adulthood
  Are we doing enough to support our 20-somethings' transition into a healthy adulthood? In some ways, today’s young adults have ...
• Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past
  Boris Cyrulnik is a renowned neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, director of teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France. At the age of 5, he lost both of ...
• Train Your Brain to Get Happy
  It seems as though every few months another book is published that purports to have discovered the ultimate cure for an unhappy life.  Some tout self-esteem, others Buddhism, and still others plastic surgery.  Train Your ...
• Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Creating a Better Life
  Charlette Mikulka — psychotherapist, social worker, wife, and mother — has created an incredibly all-encompassing book with Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your ...
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
  What drives a person to success? Sure, a good education and finding just the right career helps. But could there be a genetic predisposition for success? David Brooks examines what makes a person successful in ...
• Pocket Truths For Success: 365 Daily Principles to Become the Most Successful Person You Know
  “Achieving and sustaining success” and helping others to do so is the premise for Pocket Truths For Success, by B.A. Newman and Dr. Justin B. Short. Other inspirational books have used the day-at-a-time focus and ...
• The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens
  As the parent of a teen, you might feel exactly like this mother: “My daughter went to high school her first day as a freshman and never returned. I lost my baby!” But you might ...
• Treating PTSD with Surf Therapy
  For the last handful of years, Britain and the United States have done quiet experiments with a new form of therapy for veterans ...
• In the Zone: Depression and Emotions
  Introduction: This article proposes a non-drug treatment for depression in terms of hidden emotions. It appears that most depression involves ...
• How to Overcome Common Financial Pitfalls When You Have ADHD
  Having ADHD can make it difficult to manage your money. “People with ADHD have a higher rate ...
• Couples Therapists Reveal: 15 Lessons I’ve Learned About Relationships
  Relationships are hard, no doubt about it. There’s no magic elixir or method to making them work. ...
• The Way of the Comedian
  This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A. According to a tale in the ...
• What Makes Us Happy?
  If I were to ask you what makes you happy, you would probably have no problem providing me with at least a ...
• 12 Ideas for Overcoming the Pressure to be Super Productive
  Ever feel like you need to be doing something every second of your day? Does leisure ...
• How Experts Achieve a Work-Life Balance and How You Can Too
  Trying to find that elusive work-life balance? You’re not the only one! Many people feel ...
• 9 Common Questions About Dreams Answered
  Ever wonder why you keep having the same dream over and over again, what your nightmares actually mean and ...
• How and Why Humor Differs Between the Sexes
  This article has been excerpted from the book Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve, by Nichole Force, M.A. ...
• 10 Way to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries
  Boundaries are essential to healthy relationships and, really, a healthy life. Setting and sustaining boundaries is a skill. ...
• Is Trying To Change an Addictive Habit Worth It?
  Drugs. Alcohol. Food. Exercise. Shopping. Gambling. Attempts to change or fix other people. Trying to make more ...
• Mother’s Day is About More Than Cards
  My 90+ year old friend is incensed about Mother’s Day.  “It’s just a day made up to sell cards,” ...
• Turning Acquaintances Into Friends
  Lonely? Go on an Internet search for how to meet new people and you’ll find dozens of sites. You know the ...
• Tips for Keeping a Parent Emotionally Connected while Geographically Apart
  The 2006 Census reported that 3.6 million married Americans were not living with their spouses. ...
• Crisis of Confidence in a Teen: It’s a Family Matter
  The characters in the following vignette are fictitious. They were derived from a composite of people ...
• 21 Tips to Stop Being a People-Pleaser
  People-pleasers “want everyone around them to be happy and they will do whatever is asked of them to” ...
• The Key to Finding a Work-Life Balance
  In today’s society, with increasing job demands and smartphones and other types of technology that keep us perpetually plugged ...