By Jill Suttie — 2020
Our emotional well-being can benefit the people around us.
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CLEAR ALL
The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
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Although some 85 percent of Americans say they're pretty happy, the happiness industry sends the insistent message that moderate levels of well-being aren't enough: not only can we all be happier, but we practically have a duty to be so.
It's normal for human beings to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Some of the ways in which we seek to avoid pain are adaptive or healthy.
In the past, I had mostly stayed away from tarot cards for fear of what they might reveal — that something terrible was waiting for me, that my true love was going to leave me, that I was going to be broke for the rest of my life.