Alexandra Pasanen

Research has linked the practice of savoring with greater well-being and lower negative mood. It's part of a growing body of evidence that accentuating positive emotions can be critical for your mental health.

Perhaps making and doing things is so powerful because in doing or making you break out of stasis. Even if only fleetingly, you get unstuck and, afterwards, have proof of that. Something exists because you made it. Something happened because you did it. You baked the cake and decorated it attentively and inexpertly. You showed up at the protest wit... See more