Positive Mental Health
Happiness correlates with reasonable expectations.
Why don't they go back where they belong?Refugees are here because they had no choices but to be here.
In the Western consciousness, emotion has had a bad rap as the opposite of reason and good judgment. But psychological and neurological research reveal that emotion is the primary organizing force for...
Ambition and Initiative
Culture doesn’t make it easy to sort through this issue.
Whether or not we have a family, we need to live interdependently with others. Our growth depends on interaction: isolation is the quickest path to stagnation.
This pivotal experience taught Mitch that to participate in a democracy, you must show up, meet people, and volunteer. It doesn’t work to wait to be discovered.
This bittersweet phenomenon of a successful event paired with no discernible political gain seemed to be a chronic problem for our group. However, we were experiencing a victory that could not be take...
Tax dollars go to teach refugees in their own languages. Actually, the concept of ELL is that our publicly funded schools teach newcomers English.
Schools are the frontline institution for acculturation, where children receive solid information about their new world.
People don't need to die for us to experience loss. Holly was losing her local family to a move. It felt to her as if there would be a death. In the 1800s, the Irish had emigration wakes for their fam...
One of the secrets of happiness is having a host of activities that we can enjoy when we are alone. The more we can do this, the more likely we are to enjoy our lives as we age.
It is difficult to convince humans to act when the payoffs are uncertain while the sacrifices are substantial and immediate.
I tell them, Americans are very serious about two things—time and money.
At that time, our mothers were alive, our hair was brown, and we liked to stay up past midnight.
Realized that the prayers had all been answered. Not by anything I did, nor necessarily by anything that happened to the people I was praying for, but rather because time had made those particular pro...
Psychic dismemberment, which is the loss of our identity, our ways of thinking, and our sense of self.
Her realization that friendships were necessary for happiness,
We need to help refugees and immigrants early with job training, education, language, and business loans.