Get unstuck! It's easy to do when you know what to do. Appreciation and holistic happiness will help you meet your personal potential. Ready to be the truest you?
Happiness leads to success, not the other way around. Say YES! xo
thehappyist.substack.com Sandra Ann Miller is a writer of wrongs. Author of A SASSY LITTLE GUIDE TO GETTING OVER HIM (and the Young Adult Edition), and the novel CHAIN-SMOKING VEGETARIANS AND OTHER ANNOYANCES IN L.A., Sandra also writes fact and fiction on Medium.com and posts on Instagram.com/writegal. Her next novel, TEMPORARY, i
15/05/2026
What’s the best thing I’ve ever done? Going capsule/uniform with my wardrobe. So much time saved! Stress and what-am-I-going-to-wear anxiety lifted! Have you considered simplifying what you wear? Let me know. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-011
We need to love ourselves more. And that’s not arrogance or vanity or narcissistic. It’s where we start, before we love others. Self-Love sets boundaries. It senses BS. It makes sure that our safety comes first. And if that sounds like a bad thing, please give this a read/watch/listen. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/loving-ourselves-more
Epiphanies happen in the strangest places. Like getting a massage. But that’s when it finally hit me that healing doesn’t have to hurt. And when you have trauma, it’s almost normal to just endure it. After all, it’s for our own good, right? It’s what we deserve. Sound familiar? xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/healing-doesnt-have-to-hurt
01/05/2026
Taking time off is truly important for our health — mentally, emotionally, spiritually. We have to rest and recharge. That’s a lesson I learned much too late. And the burnout was more like spontaneous human combustion. The best thing I’ve ever done is schedule regular time off. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-009
Happiness really is a piece of cake. It’s easy to obtain and maintain once we understand our ratio of frosting (hedonic) to sponge (eudaimonic).
Subscribe to The Happyist Substack or sign up at thehappyist.me to get your free download of “WTF is Happiness Anyway?”, a fun little explainer of the good stuff. (Already a subscriber? Check that welcome email for the link.) xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/happiness-really-is-a-piece-of-cake
24/04/2026
This is by far not the sexiest post I’ve ever written…but, oh, how I love to get s**t done. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-008
How it started and how it’s going on my road to being The Happyist and the happiest me. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/how-it-started
17/04/2026
Are you a night owl or an early bird? I am a night owl who became an early bird. And, I have to say, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-007
I can be weird about words. (I’m the one who can’t stand “gratitude”, FFS.) So I get it if the words “happy” and “happiness” are off-putting, especially now. So let’s look at that state of being another way. Let’s see it for what it really is: Self-Health. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/self-health
10/04/2026
The best thing I’ve ever done? Finally getting off my lazy butt and opening up a high yield savings account. My only regret was not doing it decades ago. xo
https://thehappyist.substack.com/p/the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-006