It's all too easy for us to get swept up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, forgetting that we need to pause and take time to be good to ourselves. We're sharing 15 simple ways to practice a bit of self-care every day: from longer hugs to getting up 20 minutes earlier, it's often small but highly effective things that boost our self-care and lift our spirits.

Grief is a natural reaction to loss. It can often be overwhelming and bring out all kinds of unexpected feelings in us. Since everyone goes through their own individual process of coping with grief, comparing ourselves to other people doesn't do much good. In this article, we clarify why it's especially important to be patient with yourself and to practice mental, emotional as well as physical self-care.

Happiness is such a confusing thing - the more we try to find it, the more complicated it gets. I used to think that happiness would wait for me and find me once I was "perfect". Today, I'm not surprised that I haven't achieved either. So I made it my mission to examine the mystery of happiness in detail. Over the past few years, I've asked many people, in a wide variety of life stages - and cycles - the question, "How do you define happiness?" Thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs and creatives have revealed their answers, and each of them has said and told something completely different. Happiness has been defined as anything from accepting life for what it is, to feeling content, connected, accomplishing things, being in the flow, spending time with family or in nature... To me, happiness is living in truth - or as Ghandi once said, "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." And how would you answer the question? Since happiness seems to mean something different to each of us - how can we find simple ways to experience more of it? To feel more of it? For this article, I define "being happy" as a feeling of joy, love and wonder!

Every year spring sneaks up on us. And every year we decide to do a little cleaning up and decluttering. But what about decluttering our mental space, our minds, to make our daily lives easier, to feel better? Our mental state - what we consume, read, listen to, watch, who we talk to, and more importantly, where we let our energy flow - directly reflects our level of happiness. Living our best life is always a priority. Not only on Spring.

Self-love should actually be self-evident. But learning it is not always so easy. That's why L'Officiel Austria presents simple tips for a more positive attitude.

Let's face it: life is not made of cotton candy, which is why some truths taste bitter. The good news: Negatives also have positive sides - the perspective decides!