A father of three reflects on how becoming a parent taught him about love and helped him grow as a human being.

With the help of animal characters, educators can help children navigate big feelings with mindfulness and self-compassion.

According to Cacioppo, Reis, and Zautra, each person attending to their own needs and being able to cope with and protect ...

See how a pharmacy school is teaching students to step outside their comfort zones and care for patients with different ...

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you slow down and connect.

A new book by Nicholas Epley explains the research behind why we should reach out to other people, despite our hesitancy to ...

Recently, I woke to the blaring noise of our downstairs TV. My husband had been watching it the night before and had accidentally left it on “pause” rather than “off.” The sudden blast was startling ...

It’s widely recognized that the crises of loneliness, disconnection, and social fragmentation are touching nearly every aspect of our lives, from personal well-being to public health to democracy ...

When life feels rough, our instinct may be to retreat and withdraw from the world. But reaching out and helping others can make our lives more full by increasing our sense of significance, and ...

Love languages—the concept coined by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman some 30 years ago—has taken the relationships world by storm. It’s often the “go-to” topic on first dates, and, for those in ...

It’s hard to avoid mentions of self-love these days. Social media inundates us with jargon about achieving self-love by knowing our attachment styles and “re-parenting ourselves,” while assessing ...

On April 1, I had been quarantining in my downtown apartment for two weeks, and it was starting to become clear that this coronavirus thing wasn’t going away anytime soon. As I often do in tough times ...