Happiness how-tos

From both my Social Media class and my internship at SimplyZinhle Productions this semester, I've learned a lot about social media. Here's what I know and how I learned it:

I really enjoyed using my knowledge of positive psychology to share happiness activities wit...

Disclaimer: I create social media editorial calendars for my internship and have seen through that experience (among many others) just how much potential social media has. I chose to temporarily deactivate some accounts to focus on school, and didn't check any platform...

I think we’re all pretty familiar with meditation--at least I can assume that most of us have heard of its benefits. I'm sure we all have heard from people that act like it is the end all, be all of life.

A year ago, during my semester off at home, I meditated off and o...

 Do your newsfeeds look like this? (And in case there are gullible people out there, unfortunately none of this is true.)

It’s April, which means that our newsfeeds are flooded with internship and job acceptances and other exciting plans people have for their summers. W...

I knew what I was going to write about this week as soon as I saw it on the list: goal-setting.

Now, I hate goals. HATE them.

APRIL FOOLS!

I love goal-setting. I love it love it love it.

Goal-sticking-to-it though? Uh…yea. That's a lot harder.

January of this year I bought...

Lyubomirsky talks against “postponing our happiness” (living for the weekend) and instead suggests this happiness activity of savoring life's joys by “thinking of savoring as having a past, present, and future component.”

Living in the present is self-explanatory, but i...

The past week has been rough. I started both my babysitting and interning jobs this past week, so I was busier than I’ve been used to. I'm guessing that less time to process my emotions led them to overwhelm me.

I now know how to regulate my mental health pretty well: e...

Cards are sent!!!!!!

Sooooo I ended up sending them virtually because there were so many more girls abroad than I expected, shipping costs were going to add up, and I tracking down their addresses was difficult if I wanted to make it a surprise. Handwritten mailed lette...

This week I chose “practicing acts of kindness.” I’m a big believer in kind people. Not everybody can be smart or funny (naturally, at least), but everybody has the potential to be kind. There’s no excuse not to be. I really like this tweet from Ellen Page.

How does kin...

I chose to go with the first happiness activity this week: practicing gratitude.

I was ready to enter this semester in the best mental and physical health I’ve ever been in, and a few weeks in I got really sick from antibiotics I was taking. I had never been so sick for...