Archive | Happiness

Assertiveness as a Happy Person Habit

Last month I attended a conference entitled “The Habits of Happy People”.  As an Oak Park therapist I usually attend conferences near by, but this time a colleague and I left early, sat in traffic, missed the hidden hotel where the conference was located and arrived late to an already filled to the brim conference […]

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Happiness when…

I recently came across the quote from the book “The Natural” by Bernard Malamud: “We have two lives…the life we learn with and the life we live after that.  Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.”  Happiness is not just a human emotion.  Philosophers and spiritual thinkers define happiness in terms of living a good […]

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