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The Hidden Costs of Assuming the Worst — Plus Expert Tips on How to Stop

Picture this all-too-familiar scenario: You send a heartfelt text to your crush and excitedly watch those response bubbles appear on the screen — but then they vanish, only to be followed by hours of silence. By the time the object of your affection does reply, you’re already devastated, because clearly, you tell yourself, they don’t feel […]

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Are You a People Pleaser? Break the Habit With These 8 Steps

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Most of us strive to be good-natured, polite, and helpful. But habitually putting others’ happiness ahead of your own might make you a people pleaser — and it could cost you more than you realize. People-pleasing is a defense mechanism that’s rooted in fear, not altruism, per Londyn Miller, a New York City-based psychotherapist and

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Are You Embracing a “Soft Life”? Inside the Popular Trend That’s Worth Making Permanent

Exclusive, Health / 6 min. read

If you’re looking at the social media feed for #softlife, you might assume the trend is solely focused on curating aesthetic peaceful experiences: With nearly 200 million views on TikTok, the hashtag is populated with videos of people enjoying things like candlelit baths and working by the gently lapping ocean. But truly embracing a soft

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This Former Engineering Student Builds Massive Rubik’s Cube Mosaics: “I Have a Lot of Fun in My Life”

Culture, Exclusive / 4 min. read

When Dylan Sadiq was 21, he emptied his savings account on something his mother (perhaps understandably) considered a completely frivolous expense — not an Xbox or closet full of Nikes but rather 600 individually wrapped Rubik’s Cubes. “It was a few thousand dollars,” he recounted with a laugh on a recent call with Nice News.

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Who Are You in “Just One Word”? New Book Invites Readers to Define Their Purposes in Simplest Terms

Exclusive, Humanity / 4 min. read

“Describe yourself in such-and-such number of words” is a common directive and near-impossible task, made all the more difficult the lower that number gets. But Erin Weed has no trouble condensing the human essence into a single phrase — she does it on a daily basis. Weed is the creator of The Dig, a methodology

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Hope Is at the Core of Every Mother Counts’ Mission to Make Childbirth Safe for All

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This spring, Nice News is partnering with Every Mother Counts for our Cause of the Season — a quarterly fundraising initiative spotlighting nonprofits making the world a better place. Click here to donate, and read on to learn more about the organization. Every day around the globe, more than 700 women die from pregnancy, childbirth,

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The Menopause Workout Is in: More Fitness Classes Are Addressing Midlife Changes — Here Are 5 Areas to Prioritize

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As the medical world catches up to the current cultural moment, women are enjoying greater access to menopause-specific health care than ever before. In turn, fitness programs tailored to menopausal women are becoming more prevalent as well. When women’s hormones change — whether they’re shifting unpredictably during the pre- and perimenopausal years or dropping off

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How to Build a Personalized Mental Health Tool Kit for Days When You’re Feeling Down

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Do you have a mental health tool kit at the ready? Also called coping toolboxes, these are personalized collections of items, activities, and techniques that can help you self-soothe when you’re in a state of stress. “When we’re in our feelings, it can be difficult to think rationally about how to cope,” Stella Kimbrough, a

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Chef Started Disaster Relief Nonprofit Out of Old RV in 2006 — It’s Since Served 35 Million Gourmet Meals

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“My grandmothers cooked, if it was a good day or a bad day, if they were happy or if they were sad, they cooked. They loved on people with food,” Gary LeBlanc told Nice News on a phone call from Portsmouth, Virginia in mid-April. The career restaurateur and hotelier, whose family hails from New Iberia,

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Is Laughter Truly the Best Medicine? A Clinical Psychologist Breaks Down the Benefits of Cracking Up

Exclusive, Health / 4 min. read

There’s a reason we crack jokes with our friends, buy tickets to comedy shows, and seek romantic partners with a solid sense of humor: It feels good to giggle. But while bursting into laughter provides temporary happiness, how else does it impact our lives? And do those feel-good moments translate to any tangible boons for

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