Happiness Blog Posts

How to Stop Sabotaging Your Happiness

There are many things that we should watch out for when it comes to personal habits and behaviors that may be sabotaging our happiness. We may be unknowingly holding ourselves back from being successful or enjoying life as much as possible.… Read more

How to Maintain Your Marriage During the Coronavirus and Not Drive Each Other Crazy

Maintaining Your Marriage During the Pandemic The Coronavirus pandemic presents a very difficult time for everyone. We are forced to be cooped up at home, finances are strained in many marriages as people are losing their jobs and/or having their hours cut, and married couples and their children are required to be around one another … Continue reading How to Maintain Your Marriage During the Coronavirus and Not Drive Each Other CrazyRead more

How to Change Perfectionist Thinking and Be Happier

Perfectionism is an extremely high and impossible standard to achieve. Not only that, but perfectionism creates constant self-doubt and worry along with a persistent need for things to be just right. The perfectionist lives in a constant state of self-criticism and fear of doing something wrong.… Read more

5 Reasons Why You’re Making Bad Relationship Choices

Making bad relationship choices happens all too often and for many of us. But why? I have been helping people on a mental health forum for the last several years, and I see a reoccurring pattern: people consistently making very poor choices in partners.… Read more

Leaving a Toxic Relationship – When Enough is Enough

At what point in an unhealthy relationship do you say, “enough is enough”? Leaving a toxic relationship is no easy task sometimes. A toxic person often will try to hold onto you, despite you trying to leave. There may be guilt involved in leaving if the person is unstable and mentally/emotionally unwell.… Read more

Staying in the Wrong Relationship

People get into a relationship for many different reasons. Far too often, it’s because of loneliness or because we falsely believe a relationship will solve our overall dissatisfaction in life. Staying in the wrong relationship happens all too often. Why do we do this?… Read more

Take Life as it Comes

Taking life as it comes can seem like a more passive approach to life. However, in my humble opinion, to take life as it comes means to actively participate and go with the natural flow of life, rather than resisting and fighting it.… Read more

Always Look for the Silver Lining

To piggyback off my article, How to be Positive, I want to talk about looking for silver linings in every seemingly negative situation. One guaranteed way to more positive thinking is to look for the silver lining. “Every cloud has a silver lining”, after all.… Read more

Never Give Up

Life is hard – let’s face it. Life is full of unexpected curve balls, setbacks, tragedies and challenges. For many, life can seem like a never ending and constant uphill battle. I can relate to this sentiment because my own life has never been easy.… Read more

How to Manage a Toxic Work Environment

A toxic work environment can infect your very being and soul like pure poison. Toxic people in the workplace will suck the life out of you and can cause deep resentment, anger, rage even and acute unhappiness. So how does one negotiate their way through a toxic work environment, maintain their sanity and remain mentally … Continue reading How to Manage a Toxic Work EnvironmentRead more