Finding joy each day requires actively regulating your nervous system to override the numb, disconnected feelings—a protective form of emotional blunting—that come from modern parenting. A number of ...

For years, mental health advice felt like it was either affirmations or crisis management. You were either drowning or manifesting. No in-between. But what if joy wasn’t some fleeting feeling you get ...

When fifth-grade teacher Sharri Conklin first invited her students to lead a daily mindfulness moment, she didn’t expect it to spark a quiet revolution. What began as a single child asking to read a ...

Joy is one of the seven core emotions on the "Change Triangle." Joy, like all core emotions, has a particular feeling in the body, although that feeling varies from person to person. Often I ask my ...

J amie Moore was angry. It was 2019, and students in her composition course at the College of the Sequoias, where she is a professor of English, had stopped handing in their assignments once they’d ...

Today’s Happiness Break Guide: Spring Washam, is a meditation teacher based in Oakland, California. She is also the author of the book, The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground. We ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. After a difficult year, seeking joy this holiday season may feel difficult or insensitive, but experts say it is ...