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My Journey Into Emotional Wellness: Fighting Stigma and Finding Strength
By Shamyla Tareen Imagine this: you’re 19 years old, but compared to everyone around you, you feel about 12. At the same time, you’re so exhausted from living that you feel 100 years old. It’s a bright, sunny day and…
Read MoreWellness of the Mind – Another Way of Looking at Intellectual Wellness.
By Shamyla Tareen I’ve always been fascinated by intellectuals. They sit down with you at a party and talk politics, religion, art and science. They will argue with you about retrocausality and postmodernism. They dazzle you in discussions about 19th…
Read MoreWorkplace Wellness- Reshift, Refocus, and Reenergize
By Shamyla Tareen After a whole year of writing about my Happiness Project, I decided I was not quite done blogging about the good stuff. I collaborated with CHAI again; we thought it would be interesting to explore what “wellness”…
Read MoreKeep a Contented Heart: November’s Happiness Project Blog
By Shamyla Tareen November was a great month! Forget the 5 pm sunsets, the arctic cold, the long, boring nights! As the year drew to a close, the shift in my attitude seemed to be paying off; it felt as if the…
Read MoreOCTOBER HAPPINESS PROJECT BLOG: PAY ATTENTION
By Shamyla Tareen Four years ago, I crashed my car. It was a drizzly Tuesday morning; I was trying to make it down the slick highway for a meeting. My thoughts were helter-skelter. I needed to plan stuff, talk to…
Read MoreCHAI Annual Awards – Winners Announced
CHAI’s Annual Awards and Benefit are just around the corner and the winners of this year’s awards have been selected! The Radha Pathak Humanitarian Award Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH Professor, Departments of International Health and Pediatrics Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions…
Read MoreMonthly Happiness Project Blog: It’s All About Passion!
By: Shamyla Tareen At first glance, September’s blog seemed the easiest and full of possibilities. Who doesn’t love to pursue any kind of passion and share it? Well… Many years ago, at a family gathering, someone asked me what…
Read MoreContemplate the Heavens
By Shamyla Tareen At 6 years old, I had little concept of spirituality until my best friend at the time asked, “Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?” I said hesitantly, “N-nooo.” She said smugly, “well, then…
Read MoreMonthly Happiness Project Blog: Lighten Up
By Shamyla Tareen The other night, I had a telling dream. It was Halloween time- my favorite time of year. My roommate and I were cutting paper bats and spiders out of black construction paper for a party we were…
Read MoreRemember Love
By: Monthly Happiness Project Blogger, Shamyla Tareen I struggled with this topic for February. Like many women, I love to love. I’ve worn my heart on my sleeve and handed it over naively more times than I care to admit….in…
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