The savoring technique for sleep asks you to fixate on a happy memory before bed. Here's how it worked when one writer tried it out. While more research is needed to connect a causal relationship ...

Life can be excruciatingly difficult and, at times, inconsistent. One minute, you’re flying high, and the next, you’re suffering, wondering about your circumstances and asking yourself, Why is this ...

Think of a time when someone did something really nice for you, or you did something really nice for them. Just bringing up that memory probably makes you feel good — about that person, the nice thing ...

A new study by psychologist Margaret Jane Pitts and a new novel by Siri Hustvedt dovetail on the question of savoring—what it means, how it works, and why it's important, perhaps now more than ever.

Last summer, when a friend asked me to house-sit for her in the Hudson Valley, it felt like a divine intervention. New York City had been wearing on me more than usual. The sidewalks were packed with ...

In 1978 in their seminal paper, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes reported for the first time about high-achieving women who were not only unable to internalize a personal sense of achievement but also ...

A new study by psychologist Margaret Jane Pitts and a new novel by Siri Hustvedt dovetail on the question of savoring—what it means, how it works, and why it's important, perhaps now more than ever.