Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore
Ariel Goreis a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers' movement. "It's the quality of the writing that sets Hip Mama apart," The New Yorker noted. Gore's fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity, spirituality, queer culture, and positive psychology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 June 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.
New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.
They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?
Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.