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When Bad Things Happen: How to Survive, Thrive and Never Look Back - Hey Sigmund - Karen Young

When bad things happen, we can come back together in a ways that are unexpected and as we need to be - stronger, braver, wiser and more fierce than before.

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    Want to Be Happier? Letting Go of These Will Make it Happen - Hey Sigmund - Karen Young

    We were born to set the world on fire. To live, love, learn, fall down, haul ourselves back up and do it all over again and be happier.

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      Nonacademic Skills Are Key To Success. But What Should We Call Them? : NPR Ed : NPR

      Half the picture of student success is something other than academic. So why can't someone come up with a better name for them?

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        10 Ways to Jump Start Your Happiness | Mindful

        A mix-and-match menu of strategies and practices for enhancing your well-being.

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          Letting Go: How to Master the Art - Hey Sigmund - Karen Young

          We humans know how to fight for the things that are important. We fight for relationships, for people, for jobs, for things to stay the same. But here’s the thing – they don’t always fight as hard to hold on to us. One of the greatest sources of hur

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              Random Acts of Kindness - Mental Health & Happiness

              If today is a day where you feel that our world is more and more disconnected, angry, alienated and cruel then today would be a great day for you to spread some random acts of kindness.

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                Guest Post: Self-Esteem & Me - Hey Sigmund - Karen Young

                I’ve been thinking a lot lately about reality. I am referring specifically to reality in relation to how we see ourselves and our self-esteem.

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                  21 Positive Thoughts For Your Morning | Elyse Gorman

                  Are you feeling inspired? It's not easy to train your mind out of old habits, so to give you a helping hand, here are 21 positive morning thoughts that can help get you in the right frame of mind each day. Feel free to print them and keep them by you...

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                    Living the Compassionate Life -- The Dalai Lama – Lion's Roar

                    The Dalai Lama explains how the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and compassion lead inevitably to feelings of self-confidence and kindness.

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                          BLOG: No More Worry and Stress: Five Effective Strategies - Dr Caren Baruch Feldman

                          In last month’s blog, I spoke about happiness and challenged you to take the “happiness challenge.” One of the biggest obstacles to happiness is stress and worry. We all have some stress and worry in our lives. Some stress and worry can be helpful i

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                              Eureka! | Psychology Today

                              Flashes of insight can be personally transformative, creatively inspiring, or even spiritually transcendent. Is there a way to manufacture an “aha moment,” or at least improve the odds of having one? by caralynn

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                                Book Excerpt: 'Mindfulness for Beginners' by Jon Kabat-Zinn

                                Read an excerpt from Jon Kabat-Zinn's 'Mindfulness for Beginners' and learn how shifting to mindfulness can lead to happier, healthier living.

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                                  Healthy Personal Boundaries: 18 Ways to Set and Protect - Hey Sigmund - Karen Young

                                  We can’t influence who joins the human tribe but we can influence which humans join ours. Here are some rules for setting healthy personal boundaries.

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                                    Vulnerability: The Key to Close Relationships - Hey Sigmund - Karen Young

                                    Vulnerability is the driving force of connection. It’s brave. It’s tender. It’s impossible to connect without it. But we’ve turned it into a weakness.

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                                      How Successful People Handle Toxic People - Forbes

                                      Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons. Either way, they create unnecessary complexit

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                                        12 Things Truly Confident People Do Differently - Forbes

                                        Confidence takes many forms, from the arrogance of Floyd Mayweather to the quiet self-assurance of Jane Goodall. True confidence—as opposed to the false confidence people project to mask their insecurities—has a look all its own. When it comes to conf

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                                          How I Skipped the MBA (and Why You Should Too) | Ryan Holmes | LinkedIn

                                          In this series, professionals reflect on their inevitable career mistakes. Follow the stories here and write your own (please include #BestMistake in your post).In my early 20s, I dropped out of college to start a pizza shop. It wasn’t an easy decision