happiness – The Unplug Initiative

Have I Self-Improved My Way Into An Existential Crisis?

Unplug Initiative: have I self-improved myself into an existential crisis? By Jessica Mathis.

An unhinged rant turned into a slightly more coherent exploration of self-improvement, productivity, and something close to happiness.

What Grief Taught Me About Peace and Happiness

photo of trees turning yellow, with fallen leaves on the ground.

Things are happening exactly as they should. Happiness may not always be there, but neither will sadness and pain. Emotions are cyclical. So are we.

The Truth about Recovering from a Mental Illness

Why I’ll never be “normal” and why that’s okay.

Do What Gives You Joy

woman looking at a monkey, laughing in delight.

When it comes to being happier, go toward the light.

Today, for the first time in a very long time, I felt content and peaceful. I felt optimistic. I felt downright happy. This feeling has sort of been with me all day, but it just hit me tonight in the oddest way. I was putting away dishes while listening to Christmas music. A mundane, unmemorableContinue reading “What Happiness Looks Like”

Re-Plug: What I Connected to Today

Okay, if your first response is, “Big deal, you did your freaking laundry,” you’d be correct. But you don’t understand. My laundry basket is a perpetual cycle of taking out clothes I want to wear, then filling it back up with clean clothes once I finally wash them. However, it always remains half-full. Today, forContinue reading “Re-Plug: What I Connected to Today”