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The Balance
Contributor at Scandinavia Standard
- 59 stories
- Writing since 2026
The Balance writes about wellbeing the Nordic way. Less lecture, more evidence, and a healthy suspicion of anything sold as a lifestyle.
Signature pieces
- + Psychology Happiness doesn’t merely follow success Sep 14, 2026
- + Psychology A Stanford psychologist spent a year in Tromsø, where the sun disappears for two months each winter, then surveyed… Sep 1, 2026
- + Psychology Sweden ranked fourth in the 2025 World Happiness Report, but a 2026 study of 15,068 Swedes exposed a striking… Aug 31, 2026
All stories
- Aug 30, 2026 A 2024 PNAS study surveyed 2,966 people across 19 Indigenous and local communities worldwide and found average life… + Psychology
- Aug 29, 2026 Diary studies found that roughly 40% of our everyday behaviour is repeated habit rather than conscious choice—and… + Psychology
- Aug 28, 2026 Swedish compresses into one word what English usually needs a phrase to express + Culture
- Aug 27, 2026 Women are told the worst of a miscarriage passes within weeks + Psychology
- Aug 27, 2026 A Finnish study of 7,321 adults found that living near green space predicted nothing, and having a green view from the… + Lifestyle
- Aug 26, 2026 Some women who lose a mother or sister don't move through grief the way the five stages suggest + Psychology
- Aug 26, 2026 Loneliness can hide inside the most ordinary routine + Psychology
- Aug 24, 2026 Okinawa, Japan—the islands once called the “land of the immortals”—recorded just 37 centenarians in 1975. By 2022 there… + Lifestyle
- Aug 24, 2026 People who ask follow-up questions, validate what they heard, and return to a detail later aren’t merely being polite + Psychology