Tag: mindful
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Are You Happy? If Not, Why?
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. What, no clapping? Aren’t you happy?! Well, don’t let that make you sad because not many of us are consistently happy. According to the studies anyway. Science has us pegged as a sad sack of SOBs just trying to make it until cocktail hour. My…
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Why mindful? And what does that even mean anyway?
I like to hang onto things—to cling to past experiences and their corresponding feelings (good and bad) like some kind of memory hoarder. At the same time, I enjoy time travel into the future. If only I had a functional crystal ball, then I wouldn’t need to spend so much time guessing and imagining what…
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Small Kids, Big Worries
Anxiety is a pain. Whether we come by it genetically or situationally, it hits all of us at various times in our lives. I’ve written about my struggle with worry—as a parent of a child with a variety of medical issues, I worried about our girl a lot. I looked too far ahead and fretted…
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