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A family and marriage therapist sees gratitude as essential for fostering happiness.

Overthinking and social comparison can significantly hinder happiness.

Prioritizing health and self-care significantly impacts overall happiness levels.

Marriage and family therapist Tony Mosier went through a rough patch where he felt joy was elusive. He wasn’t as happy as he wanted to be because of a personal crisis and had “difficulty in finding lasting and sustained happiness.”

Life was a chronic-stress whirlpool for about a year, he noted. He wanted something different.

His work as a therapist also put him in touch with others who needed to boost their happiness. So the self-proclaimed “data nerd” — “I believe in research” — set out to absorb the plethora of studies that had been cond

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