That’s right! You guys loved our Candy Bar Love Notes, and when you asked if we could make more for the holidays – well, we couldn’t disappoint! So we commissioned our dear Courtney, the crazy talented {and super sweet} designer behind Paperelli, to design some NEW, holiday-themed candy bar gift tags. Yep, she is hooking you up with FIVE PAGES of seriously cute holiday candy bar gift tags!! SCORE! If you use them, make sure to head on over to her page and give her a much-deserved “Thank You!...

As a part of their “Is Man Kind?” campaign, Airbnb has debuted an online news series that reports on positive, uplifting stories. The series, called The Daily Kindness Bulletin, aims to highlight the acts of kindness and compassion that happen everyday. The video series came to be after their survey of Airbnb users showed that people often felt that the news reported on too many negative stories compared to the amount of positive stories....

Unease and negativity are not always entirely bad. Good can emerge from acknowledging your feelings and the airing of your opinions. There’s inherent value in in working through discomfort. Fear and uncertainty are often the first steps along the path toward personal growth. Disagreement and challenges may be uncomfortable, but unpleasant emotions that accompany growth often prompt introspection and have the ability to widen one’s worldview. The work begins with you....

But, even though I’ve always believed that hiking in nature had many psychological benefits, I’ve never had much science to back me up…until now, that is. Scientists are beginning to find evidence that being in nature has a profound impact on our brains and our behavior, helping us to reduce anxiety, brooding, and stress, and increase our attention capacity, creativity, and our ability to connect with other people. “People have been discussing their profound experiences in nature for the last several 100 years—from Thoreau to John Muir to many other writers,” says researcher David Strayer, of the University of Utah....

The first thing that we can acknowledge is that this hidden secret of “not being or doing enough” is extremely energy consuming. Becoming aware of the ways that shame plays out in our own experience is the first step toward learning to treat ourselves more gently. What types of awareness are helpful? How can we work with shame and build more shame resilience? The first step is to keep shame from growing....