Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you seek out joy together.

We all carry emotional baggage. But what if holding on to that pain is hurting you more than the person who caused it?

We are usually grateful for good things that happened to us—but with a little imagination, we can also be grateful for bad ...

Research suggests that having a resilient, expansive identity could protect us from disease and offer hope for repairing ...

Victor Strecher, a behavioral scientist at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, lost his 19-year-old daughter to a sudden heart attack in 2010; she had been living with a rare heart ...

A new study finds that sharing positive feelings with your partner provides health benefits beyond your individual happiness ...

Gratitude statements like “Thanks! You are so kind!” and “Thank you! What you did was really helpful,” are common when ...

Before you think about your answer, let me clarify: I’m specifically asking what self-care is—not how do you take care of yourself? It’s amazing that an entire industry has built up around ...

Having a mindset that people are mostly set in their ways can make us believe that it isn’t worthwhile to meet or interact ...

One of the most meaningful expressions of compassion we can show another person is to listen deeply to them–and that’s just ...