8 Tips to Feel Happier

Broadly speaking, there are two components to therapy: talking and doing. Both stages lead to feeling different and increasing levels of well-being. The talking stage involves developing understanding of the issue at hand and strategies for dealing with it. The doing stage involves practicing change and actually changing. Typically, people will only feel slightly better as a result of talking about their issues. Beginning to "do" can be a big hurdle for some people, but it's only when we do that we can really beginning to feel better.

Gretchen Rubin, author of the bestselling book The Happiness Project, shares 8 tips for beginning to feel happier about yourself. The key is doing activities that help us feel more worthy of our own respect.