A blog about connecting with meaning, purpose and your most authentic self.

Sleep Your Way To Greater Connection

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…

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Research News from the Connection Lab

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

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Why Don’t the Holidays Feel like the Holidays?

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…

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The Key to a Life Well-Lived | TEDxNashville

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…

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Self-Connection as the Path to Well-Being

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…

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Using the Past to Reconnect in the Present

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…

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How Do We Experience Connection to Work?

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…

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What Does Self-Connection Feel Like?

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.…

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How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds And What We Can Do About It

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.…

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Living in Alignment: Are Urgent Tasks Getting In Your Way?

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),…

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