The Happiness Connection

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We’ve all heard the phrase “be happy”.  I used to wish for that as I blew out candles on my birthday cake or tossed a coin into a fountain.  I figured if I wished for happiness, it would be the umbrella covering everything; those I care about would be healthy and safe, financial stress would…

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Connecting over Connections

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Insights and Connections and Strategies and Hope… What brings you to Love? Joy? …Peace? Some important messages have resonated in 2023 so far and perhaps they resonate with you too. Who are you and can you change? Should you change? Do you want to change? Are you capable of change? Try not to answer this…

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Connecting Autotelically

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Connecting Autotelic(ly) I learned a new word. Because somebody recommended a book to me by Andy Clark, I have been learning more about how our experiences predict and often determine our reality.  The book encourages people to appreciate experiences for their own sake—without  depending on how they feel about the outcome. What if you were…

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Connecting Transformatively

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In the early 2000s I worked as a school social worker and there was a problem in the school that my principal and I spent hours talking about. The kids were changing, the families were changing, and our staff was not. We went from 10-15% of students who were considered to be in the low…

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