People tend to look for ways to feel happy, but they’re often fleeting. Often we’re so busy trying find happiness we don’t recognize it when you have it. Happiness isn’t something you build by buying stuff or adding more bells and whistles to your life. It’s a feeling of inner contentment that comes from self-acceptance.…

Often situations that trigger anger, disappointment, frustration, sadness, etc., make us stew. People pleasers tend to do it in silence, mulling it over and over as the feelings get more intense, or go the other way and complain to any nearby ear. I did that years ago. When someone did me wrong it took over…

It’s over four months since resolutions were made on New Years Eve. Have you kept yours? Most people haven’t. Do you think it’s too late to make good on them? Amnon Goldstein, M.D. says “no.” He’s a physician with more than 40 years of experience in conventional Western medicine and holistic and Eastern medicine. Dr.…

A desire to be nice drives many of us to be people pleasers. It can be hard to know where true nice ends and being a DoorMat begins. Many people have great misconceptions of what nice behavior is or they call themselves nice for the wrong reasons. The people pleasing kind of “nice” behavior often…

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