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Social Network Blueprint for Happiness

By Dan Buettner — 2018

The people you surround yourself with have a profound impact on your happiness.

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How Platonic Intimacy Improved Everything About My Life

Platonic intimacy is the foundation of any friendship where everyone is invested in each other’s growth.

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Elly Belle
2020
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The Secret of Platonic Relationships

Platonic love is a special emotional and spiritual relationship between two people who love and admire one another because of common interests, a spiritual connection, and similar worldviews.

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Diana Raab
2018
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The Joy Audit: How to Have More Fun in 2020

Many of us treat joy like the good china, only warranted on special occasions. Even if we know it is within our reach, we may not see it is within our control.

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Elle Hunt
2020
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Caught Between Young Kids and a Parent with Alzheimer’s, I Found a Lifeline on the Playground

My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.

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Meg Ounsworth Steere
2019
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My Friend Is Dating Someone Terrible, Or, Secrets of the Darth Vader Boyfriend

You can’t talk someone out of being in love with Darth Vader, and sadly, the worse it gets the more your friend might try to talk himself into trying to make it work because if there is a happy ending all the ways he’s had to abase himself to stay in the relationship will have been “worth it.

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Jennifer Peepas
2011
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The Dharma of the Princess Bride

In The Princess Bride, outcasts and loners find true friendship. Drawing on the classic film, Ethan Nichtern offers Buddhist teachings on how to make friends with yourself and others.

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Ethan Nichtern
2017
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Laughter Meditation: 5 Healing Benefits and a 10-Minute Practice

In a world where there’s much to be taken seriously, it’s important to remember to laugh. Not to make light of the severity of war, discrimination, terror threats, or climate change, but to maintain a perspective that there is still much to be thankful for and to celebrate in your life.

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Melissa Eisler
2017
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6 Friends You Need in Your Life

Our relationships create who we are and who we’re becoming. So in this way, I was interested in thinking about how friendships transform us.

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Carolee Belkin Walker
2017
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