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Dr. Rick Hanson and Summer Camp: Who knew?

This is a guest post from Michelle Lilyanna at Happinessandjoylessons.com Last week, a friend came to me and asked me to make a nighttime audio for her daughter who is going away to summer camp. Her daughter has enjoyed my other calming audios but wanted one...

The Caring Quilt Creative Activity

Check out this great creative activity that will deepen and internalize your sense of being cared about – an important inner resource for resilience, happiness, and satisfying relationships, and a key part of the Foundations of Well-Being. This 12-minute video...

Enjoy Life

If you’d like to be more motivated about certain things–such as exercising, eating healthy foods, or pushing through a tough project at work–focusing on what’s enjoyable about them will naturally draw you into doing them.

Feeling Safer

Fear arises when threats seem bigger than resources. Sometimes this is actually the case, such as getting an unexpected bill that you don’t have the money to pay. But due to “paper tiger paranoia,” threats often look larger than they really are while resources look smaller than they really are.

QUIZ: Do You Know When to Stop?

Whether driving a car or going through life altogether, we need to be able to speed up skillfully . . . as well as slow down and even stop. How is it going with whatever you want to decrease or stop in your own life? Perhaps related to food, drugs and alcohol, media....