More Happier: Embrace a Party Theme, Plus a Lesson About How to Fight Right
Happier with Gretchen RubinShow Notes
Turn party-planning stress into fun with a theme, and why one person downplaying can lead the other to overreact.
Episode highlights:
Something Making Us Happier: Embrace a party theme. [00:40]
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: Gretchen’s Perfume Party [10:42]
I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You: Gretchen’s insight on a comment that Elizabeth’s son, Jack, made about communication [19:41]
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Move 26 in '26 bingo card in The Happier app
PLOT TWIST by Harlan Coben (Amazon, Bookshop)
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