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Breathing is the New Yoga! 9 Shortcuts to Calming Anxiety
Written by Emma Pearse. Controlled breathing techniques are a promising antidote to everything from anxiety to PTSD; here’s how to incorporate them into your life. At a moment when the pressure to live the perfect, productive, and Instagram-beautiful l …
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5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work
Written by Rich Fernandez. Currently, a quarter of all employees view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Health Organization describes stress as the “global healt …
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America’s Workplace Martyrs Are Still Not Using All Their Vacation Time
Written by Lisa Gutierrez. It would be hard to be a workplace martyr at DuTrac Community Credit Union in Dubuque, Iowa. Everyone who works there is required to take off five consecutive days during the year. “Sometimes you need to just get away and dec …
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The Secrets to Success, Productivity and Creativity: Have Fun and Be Happy
Written by Lauren Effron. Many of us believe that being successful in our careers means constantly being plugged in and sacrificing our own happiness to devote all our energy to our jobs — as Rihanna would say, “Work, work, work, work, work, work.” But …
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Happy Workplaces Can Also Be Candid Workplaces
Written by Emma Seppala and Kim Cameron. Recently the Communications Workers of America – the union that represents T-Mobile employees — contested a T-Mobile Employee Handbook clause on maintaining a positive work environment. The clause reads as follo …
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Emma Seppala on Building Positive Priorities
Written by Chris Russell. In an ‘always on’ world enabled by hyperconnectivity, divisions between office and home, and work and the rest are becoming increasingly porous, with a new email notification never far away. As such, the attendant stresses and …
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Dr. James Doty Featured in Perreault Magazine
Written by Svetlana Kim. James R. Doty, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Founder and Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of M …
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John Kasich Has Played Mr. Nice Guy. But Can You Ever Be Kind and Finish First?
Written by Colby Itkowitz. John Kasich has run his presidential campaign on the premise that he is the gentler, reasoned choice. He’s the candidate who hugs voters. He’s the one who calls for tolerance and softer rhetoric. And Tuesday, he laid out in s …
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Good Bosses Create More Wellness Than Wellness Plans Do
Written by Emma Seppala. In the name of employee wellness, and in response to insurance company demands, corporations are offering well-being initiatives with financial incentives. Complete this cholesterol screening, say, and you’ll get $100 added to …
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Here’s Why We Struggle to Make Connections with Our Physicians — and Why it Matters
Americans don’t always trust their doctors, and here’s the proof: a 2012 survey found that just 34 percent of U.S. adults said they had “great confidence in the leaders of the medical profession” — a significant drop from 76 percent in 1966. A 2015 stu …
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Study Finds Inner Kindness is the Key to Success, Happiness
Written by Cameron Glover. Kindness is not typically associated with success, but Stanford researcher Emma Seppala has found evidence that supports the link between happiness and success. Seppala has examined high-success environments such as Yale, Sil …
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How Important is it for Politicians to Have Empathy?
Written by Carolyn Gregoire. In a time of terrorist attacks, escalating racial tensions and violence, and outward bigotry against entire religious groups, it may seem like we need empathetic world leaders now more than ever. But although voters seem to …
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Everything You Know About Being Successful is Wrong
Written by Jen Hubley Luckwaldt. “Research shows that the kind of happiness that does lead to long-lasting fulfillment is the kind of happiness that’s derived from positive social relationships with other people,” says Dr. Emma Seppälä, the Science Dir …
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Stanford Scientist Proves Compassion Leads to Success
Written by Tara MacIsaac. Stanford University has a whole center dedicated to the science of compassion and altruism. Emma Seppala, Ph.D., is the science director of this center and she has helped scientifically prove compassion is best. She holds degr …
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Letting Happiness Flourish in the Classroom
Written by Jessica Lahey. When I look out into my classroom, and take the emotional temperature of my students, I’m usually checking for engagement. I want to make sure they feel supported, are interested in the lesson at hand, and that the lesson is r …
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Stanford Psychologist Tells Us How to Fight Workplace Burnout
Written by Nara Schoenberg. At the end of a work day, do you feel spent, burned out, fit for nothing more strenuous than a glass of wine and a couch-based communion with your favorite TV show? Join the club. While working hard is admirable, our tendenc …
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The Counterintuitive Reason Why Doing Nothing Can Make You More Successful
Written by Tanya Lewis. In today’s work-obsessed society, we have this belief that we have to constantly be doing something in order to be successful. But what if the opposite were true? As Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala argues in her new book, “Th …
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The New Success Track: Happiness
In The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success, Emma Seppala, science director of Stanford’s Center for Compassionate Altruism Research in Education, challenges the idea that success requires stress. In a conve …
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Here’s the Best Way to Avoid Burnout, According to a Stanford Psychologist
Written by Tanya Lewis. If you’re like many Americans, you probably work long hours and take few vacations. It’s a recipe for burnout. But what if there were a way to be successful without pushing yourself to the brink? Psychologist Emma Seppala has st …
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Brain Magic
Written by Gennady Sheyner. Open your heart. Believe in yourself. You can have anything you want. Here’s how. The formula, so simple, sexy and seductive, has spawned an entire industry of inspiration — some rooted in religion (Norman Vincent Peale’s “P …
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Jumping on the “Happiness Track” with Author and Stanford Psychologist Emma Seppälä
Written by Holly MacCormick. Many people think that hard work is the key to success and happiness, yet we all know it’s not possible to work, and work well, 24/7. This realization hit me as I was preparing to interview Emma Seppälä, PhD, associate dire …
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A Stanford Psychologist Says These 6 Things are the Keys to Happiness and Success
Written by Tanya Lewis. If you want to be successful, you should work as hard as possible and suffer, right? Or so we’re told. But that notion is completely wrong, according to psychologist Emma Seppala, science director of the Center for Compassion an …
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Brookhaven Retreat Offers Clients Suggestions for Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17, 2016
Brookhaven Retreat LLC, a unique residential treatment facility exclusively for women with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, will offer clients suggestions for observing and celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17, 2016. A lit …
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This Simple Trick is All You Need to Do to Become Successful
In one form or another we have all wondered that the key to success really is and while it may seem that the answer will be tough, a Stanford researcher has proven otherwise. Emma Seppala, Stanford researcher and author of the book The Happiness Track …
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How Nice Bosses Get Ahead
There’s an age-old question out there: Is it better to be a “nice” leader to get your staff to like you? Or to be tough as nails to inspire respect and hard work? Most people still assume the latter is best. The traditional paradigm just seems safer: B …
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