Reconnecting, Part 1

What’s been going on? The last time I posted here was during the first wave of COVID-19. But those of you who are signed up for my newsletter know that I didn’t stop working behind the scenes. One of the main thing I did during this period was the creation and launch...

What gets in the way of your happiness?

Often it’s easier to answer questions about what we don’t want than what we do want, and there is a good reason for that. It’s called the negativity bias. ‘Negativity bias’ refers to our hard-wired tendency to “attend to, learn from, and use negative...

What is the cause of unhappiness?

If happiness protects us from illness, wouldn’t everybody do it? It’s happiness after all! Who would reject it? Anthony de Mello, an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist, might be able to help us understand. He wrote, “There is only one cause of...

Life after COVID-19?

I’m working on the assumption that most of us are going to survive COVID-19. If that’s the case where might we focus our attention as we step into the future? Dr. Ruut Veenhoven, sociologist, pioneer and world authority on the scientific study of happiness from the...