To transcend languishing, try starting with small wins: make your bed, clean your house, clean your car, make time to read a few pages every day. 

One of the clearest paths to flow is taking a challenge. That means carving out daily time to focus on a chall...

In psychology, we think about mental health on a spectrum from depression to flourishing.

Flourishing is the peak of well-being: You have a strong sense of meaning, mastery and mattering to others.

Depression is the valley of ill-being: You feel despo...

A concept called “flow” may be an antidote to languishing. 

Flow is that elusive state of absorption in a meaningful challenge or a momentary bond, where your sense of time, place and self melts away. 

During the early days of the pandemic, t...

Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield.

Psychologists find that one of the best strategies for managing emotions is to name them. 

We still have a lot to learn about what causes languishing and how to cure it, but naming it might be a first step. 

It could help to defog our vision, giving us a clearer window into what had b...