The Multiple Benefits of Smiling

The Multiple Benefits of Smiling

The benefits of smiling for you, your relationships and others are LEGIT. Smiling has been found to:Decrease stress by activating the release of neuropeptides – tiny molecules that allow neurons to communicate that you are okLift mood, reduce pain and relax your...
What’s Better Than Giving Advice

What’s Better Than Giving Advice

Giving unsolicited advice to people rarely helps them. While it feels productive and pleasing to the advice-giver, it usually makes the person on the receiving end defensive and self-doubting. If you really want to help someone, try genuinely listening to them, asking...
How to Endure Hardship the Modern Way

How to Endure Hardship the Modern Way

Practicing a mindset of Stoic Empathy allows you to endure hardship gracefully while maintaining healthy emotional connections with yourself and others. When I was a young girl, my father used to read me the poem If by Rudyard Kipling, just as his father used to read...