The Happiness Plan with Sarah Treleaven and
Astrid Van Den Broek
Making everyday extraordinary
How one woman lost her job, got divorced and found happiness
- Sat Oct 01 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
April of 2009 was a pivotal month for Robin Mather. Within a week, the Chicago Tribune food writer was hit with a wicked one-two punch. One, her husband of 12 years wanted a divorce. Two, she was being laid off. And while in her new book, The Feast Nearby, in which she shares how she ultimately learned to land on her feet again and live on $40 a week, her story had me wondering: how do you find happiness when the ground just shifts beneath your life like that?
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Who's happier: stay-at-home moms or working moms?
- Thu Jun 09 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
After my son was born three years ago, I had a serious bout of what I'll lightly refer to as the baby blues. Still new into my parenting career, I felt very alone, incompetent and struggled often with tears. There were times I felt like I was just barely making it in caring for two small children on my second maternity leave.
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What makes you happy on Mother's Day?
- Sun May 08 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
For the first time in six years, I’m spending Mother’s Day away from my children. While I’m thrilled about the reason why — I’m headed to New York for a weekend with seven friends — I’m also a little blue to be away from my kids on this day.
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Are stay-at-home moms any happier?
- Wed Mar 16 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
According to Katy Read, being a stay-at-home mother isn't all roses. Here, she describes the highs and lows and offers some advice for any women considering a similar choice.
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My First Chocolate Mousse
- Wed Oct 06 2010
- Sarah Treleaven
Chocolate is known as a mood booster - but spending the afternoon in the kitchen with my mother for the first time since I was a child proved to be an even greater enticement of happiness.
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Turn him into a mama's boy
- Wed Sep 29 2010
- Astrid Van Den Broek
When my daughter A. was younger it irked me that when she hung out with her dad at the playground or grocery shopping, oftentimes people would coo about her being “Daddy’s little girl.”
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