Looking for easy ways to improve how connected you feel on a daily basis? Here’s one you literally can do in your sleep. Good mental health and well-being…

The Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology published some exciting research from our Connection Lab in January 2020. We had been studying the relationship between…

The holiday season is supposed to be joyous, loving, and celebratory – a supremely generous time when grudges are put aside, mistakes are forgiven, appreciation expressed, and everyone…

https://youtu.be/sBcB1f7sVZI Do you wonder if there’s more to life than what you’re living? I certainly did. At TEDx Nashville 2019, I shared the single, simple key to transform…

Connection Theory is the idea that by focusing on cultivating connection (rather than happiness, mindfulness, resilience or any other single concept), we naturally build lives rich with meaning…

With the constant competition for our attention in the present, it’s often difficult to find time to reflect on the past. Even people who journal regularly about daily…

Did you know that most of us will spend about one-third of our lives working? That’s 90,000 hours on average. Yet too often, people treat work as a…

Connection — in the sense that we use the word — is an intuitive idea that’s surprisingly tricky to define. It’s not the same as happiness, it’s something.…

You know the feeling…the tidal pull from the pit of your stomach that urges you to peek at your smartphone every time you hear a notification roll in.…

Modern life is full of urgent demands on our time…besides the usual deadlines for school and work, there are bills to pay, family activities to plan (and do),…

We’ve been doing a series of blog posts on how to cultivate more meaning in everyday life, because it is the single most powerful way to experience a…

Everyone has heard the expression “You can’t buy happiness,” but I suspect that on some level most people don’t actually believe it’s true. If we just had enough…

Have you ever wished you could control the world with your thoughts? That by imagining something, you could make it come true? Well, I sure have…and I’m pretty…

Everyone knows exercise is good for you…good for your waistline, your stress level, your muscular coordination, your creativity, and your mood. Yet most of us think about exercise…

Lots of people think of traditional hand crafts as old-fashioned, outdated activities that only spinster aunts and tottering grandmothers should be doing. We have machines to do that…

The more we learn about connection, the more we learn about the factors that hinder it. And it turns out that many of our society’s most ingrained habits…

How many times have you heard someone say their life’s goal is just to be happy? Or a parent say all they really want is for their kids…

Simplicity is one of the most effective tools for cultivating connection—and a more joyful, present way of life. Henry David Thoreau often observed that when our lives are…

Many people are drawn to connection theory because they feel such a lack of meaning and purpose in their lives. They don’t feel their daily lives are contributing…

According to Dr. John Ratey, who is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, practicing psychiatrist, and author of seven books on brain functioning, yes!…