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How to Adjust to Big Life Changes

“The new normal” is one of those phrases that can accurately apply to a wide variety of life situations, including…

How the Bible Can Help You Find Your Positive Inner Voice

In the biblical book of 1 Kings, the prophet Elijah is frantic in the wake of violence and threats he’s…

How Reading Can Make You Happier

“Reading fiction makes me lose all sense of self,” wrote Ceridwen Dovey in a beautiful 2015 essay in The New…

How Planting Bulbs Is ‘the Work of Hope’

Is there any greater act of garden faith than tucking bulbs into the ground just before the freezing cold hardens…

How Passover Is a Model of Authentic Positivity

When Jews greet each other this week, we might say, ah zissen pesach, a Yiddish phrase meaning, “have a sweet Passover!”…

How Gardening Can Help You Live Longer

“Life begins the day you start a garden,” says a Chinese proverb. Research on five global “blue zones”—places where residents…

How Being a Realist Can Make You Happy

Those of us who spend time thinking about and working on walking a positive path through life might be best…

Honoring the Process of Grief and Loss

“Grief is a cruel kind of education,” writes the award-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  in the early pages of her powerful…

Encouraging Words to Help You Release Fear

“I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear,” begins “I Give You Back,” a poem by Joy Harjo, who served…

Cultivate Positivity in the Garden of Life

When the tomato plants need extra support as their heavy fruits tug at the stalk in late August, or when…

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