Many years ago, when I asked 11-year-old Michael, a boy I was working with in therapy, what a good day looked like for him, his answer stopped me: “A good day is when bad things don’t happen ...

A new study examines different ways of coping with stress to see what makes us feel better when we're struggling.

Bad things happening to good people isn’t a flaw in the system—it’s the system. It’s the raw, untamed nature of existence that’s beyond the moralistic rules we’ve set up.

Four years after Aaron’s death, Kushner published his own response to this question; the book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” became an international bestseller.

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. For thousands of years, people have waited on karma to catch up with their good behavior—or promised ...

Evaluation narrows your mind When you instinctively label something as good or bad, you focus only on the features that make that thing good or bad ... of boredom and monotony. Over time, your mind ...