Yale’s resident well-being expert talks about what it means to live a good life and shares some books that might help us get within reach of one.

Youth workers, for example, can offer an important and effective ... Nor does this way of being a man need to be predicated on emotional repression, misogyny, racism or homophobia.

"Happiness is a reactive emotion, triggered by a specific ... good health, for example—we sometimes feel a void. The pursuit of happiness then becomes a never-ending race, a perpetual climb ...

Perfectionists are terrified of their emotions. Thus, their aim is to create ... we may argue that perfectionism ought to be the pursuit of becoming a better fit for one’s environment, whatever ...

At the same time, parents should guide and provide positive feedback at a child’s attempt to manage their own behaviors and emotions. Capanna-Hodge uses this example: “I saw that was very ...

Shouldering dozens of examples of emotional and financial abuse, Anita hit her breaking point and initiated a divorce-hoping to end her misery quickly. However, Nick and his "connections” in the ...