Article: Go Easy on Yourself, a New Wave of Research urges I ran across this article and was intrigued. Self-care is hugely important in any field, but especially seems to fall to the bottom in helping professions. This means the very people who strive to care for others sometimes neglect to turn that amazing compassion towards themselves. “The research suggests that Read more…

Tags: compassion, health, self-care

Not to report too much on Facebook, but an interesting study was published over the summer about how Facebook photos predict later happiness. It was a small study, but in it, researchers coded a single Facebook picture for both men and women at their first semester of college and then compared that to their ratings of life satisfaction 3 1/2 years Read more…

Tags: happiness, human, mindfulness, relationship, smile