{"id":187604,"date":"2025-10-03T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187604\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:09:27","slug":"why-your-life-never-feels-like-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187604\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your life never feels like enough."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"\">This isn&#8217;t about pretending everything&#8217;s perfect or dismissing real challenges. It&#8217;s about understanding why our brains are wired to adapt so quickly that we stop noticing the good stuff. <\/p>\n<p style=\"\">So, how can we step off the hedonic treadmill, even briefly? According to Phoebe, we might be looking in the wrong places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">&#8220;The issue is that many happiness seekers focus on the wrong things to bring about happiness; they focus on life events such as relationships, marriage, a new job, a new house. However, we all carry a setpoint for happiness,&#8221; Phoebe said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Research from Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness, suggests happiness is made of three factors: 50 per cent is determined by our genes (or &#8216;set point&#8217;, as Phoebe calls it), 10 per cent by life circumstances and 40 per cent by intentional activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">&#8220;This is great, because we can take action,&#8221; Phoebe said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">&#8220;Practice <a class=\"underline underline-offset-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mamamia.com.au\/kids-mindfulness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mindfulness<\/a> and gratitude, avoid social comparison, exercise, cultivate self-compassion, pursue action guided by our values, engage in random acts of kindness; it&#8217;s all about how you show up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 90vw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gratitudejournal_1758675387938.jpg\" width=\"736\" height=\"980\" alt=\"A top-view image of a woman's legs in blue and white stripes pyjamas, Apple headphones, an open journal and black pen and matcha in a glass with a straw.\"\/>Gratitude journaling is one way to briefly step off the hedonic treadmill. Image: Pinterest\/pinsforyoubabe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t about pretending everything&#8217;s perfect or dismissing real challenges. It&#8217;s about understanding why our brains are wired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-187604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}