651: 36 years of happiness research points to this | Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D.
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🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green and your host. |
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| 1:13.0 | What if every happiness practice that actually works, does so for the same reason? |
| 1:19.3 | Dr. Sonia Bremerski has been studying happiness for 36 years, and her new book, How to |
| 1:26.3 | Feel Loved, explains the through line in her three decades of |
| 1:30.2 | research. Connection is the active ingredient in almost everything that moves the needle on |
| 1:35.9 | well-being. In today's show, we dig into why acts of kindness for others actually change |
| 1:40.8 | genus expression and why 70% of us report at least one relationship where we don't |
| 1:46.3 | feel loved enough. Sonia walks me through her quote unquote relationship seesaw, why we all walk |
| 1:52.3 | around half submerged and the small move that lifts both people to the surface. Plus, we discuss |
| 1:58.0 | one thing she says you can do to borrow to feel more loved and it only takes 15 minutes. |
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