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People in the News

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

People in the News

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Are you addicted to happiness?

happy woman“My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.”–Lenny Kravitz
 
I’m bored with people’s preoccupation with being happy. Perhaps my vocation is responsible, but that’s another story. We’re addicted to fixing ourselves because we’ve been duped by the billion dollar self-help industry’s aggressive habit of making everything a problem that needs to be overcome. We want to be undisturbed by need, worry, confusion, sorrow, fear, failure – all natural rhythmic moods of life.

Read more of Neycha’s advice on how we can stop chasing happiness — and learn to truly be happy at Essence