Self-reflection is a healthy and necessary part of self-improvement. How can we grow as individuals and become better if we don’t learn from our past mistakes? That doesn’t mean wallow in your past and let unwelcome feelings of regret take over. However, sometimes thinking about what you would tell your younger self helps put life...
Mary-Kate Backstrom’s shares stories about her two kids on her blog, usually comedic, but one night her daughter gave her mother a crash course on forgiveness. This interaction warmed and broke Backstrom’s heart. Her blog “Mom Babble” is “a place to discuss important things through the lens of motherhood. And by ‘important’ I mean anything...
Whether responsibly or not, parents make the decision to bring children into the world who are dependent on them for many years. All parents want to provide for their children. They long to give them a stable environment, educational opportunities, and nourishing meals. But sometimes this well-intentioned desire backfires. Adult children assume that their parents...
“Everybody loves a rags to riches story,” says Loren Krytzer, a man who went from surviving on disability checks to become a millionaire in a matter of minutes. Krytzer worked as a freelance carpenter until a car accident and a leg amputation took his livelihood from him. He was barely scraping by until he realized an old family heirloom...
The pandemic has affected the world in many ways, namely the high number of layoffs. It’s difficult to find a new job. There’s a lot of handing out resumes, cold calling, and hoping to land an interview. Sometimes, applicants won’t receive a response since their CV is lost among so many others. It’s a devastating...
Farmers are icons of hard work. They have to be. They have to endure everything nature could throw at them. Infestations to droughts to storms to injuries to broken equipment, and every way possible way things could go wrong seem fixed on trying to cripple the harvest. Farmers are true survivors for living year-to-year to provide sustenance...
After the death of his wife, 75-year-old Tony Williams found himself very alone. Desperate for someone to talk to, he put up a poster asking for friends his window as a last-ditch effort. This is his story. Unbearable Silence Tony’s wife Joe, also 75 years old, passed away in May after a very brief battle...
Sometimes people just need to be given a chance. When this store manager gave a job to a homeless woman living in her store’s parking lot, that’s exactly what she did. It proved to be one of the best hiring decisions she ever made. Manager Gives Job to Homeless Woman LaShenda Williams has not had...
We all go into relationships for different reasons. Once you’re committed to someone for any frame of time, you deserve to experience true happiness from the intimacy that comes with being attached, mentally, and physically, to someone else. If you think about it, relationships are a big deal. Two people with different mindsets and characters...
It is commonly assumed that it takes 10,000 tries to become a master at something. If that’s true, then anyone who’s made it past 90 years old must be true masters at life. They’ve experienced all of the tears, fear, extreme happiness, and utter sadness that comes with each phase of life, and they have...
For many years, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have not been able to explain the ‘why’ of menopause. How could it be beneficial for women to no longer be able to have children when they still have decades left to live? Menopause is also a unique stage present only in human life; it is not shared...
The psychology of happiness is well-studied, and at this point, we have a fairly solid understanding of what, in general, makes most of us happy. Activities like dancing, or going for a walk in the woods, help us to feel joyful and calm. Singing and music can improve our mood as well. Most psychologists will...
