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The Balance
Contributor at Scandinavia Standard
- 50 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.
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- Aug 15, 2026 The Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre's 2025 World Happiness Report found that sharing meals with others and trusting… + Lifestyle
- Aug 14, 2026 Psychology says people who reach their 60s with few close friends aren't cold or antisocial + Psychology
- Aug 14, 2026 Psychology says people who reach their 60s with few close friends aren't cold or antisocial + Psychology
- Aug 14, 2026 The reason some adults find it hard to accept help isn't pride, it's that being helped feels like breaking a private… + Lifestyle
- Aug 14, 2026 The hardest transition of parenting isn't the newborn stage or the teenage years, it's the moment a grown child stops… + Advice
- Aug 14, 2026 The famous claim that happiness stops rising at $75,000 came from a 2010 study by two Nobel laureates + Psychology
- Aug 14, 2026 The generation that grew up permanently connected is also dramatically lonelier + Psychology
- Aug 14, 2026 After nearly 90 years following people from youth into old age, the Harvard Study of Adult Development found that… + Psychology
- Aug 13, 2026 Psychology says people who feel like failures when a new habit isn't automatic by week three aren't lacking discipline + Psychology
- Aug 12, 2026 In Sweden the word lagom means roughly enough, and children absorb it so early that many Swedish adults describe… + Lifestyle
- Aug 12, 2026 The parents who raised their children to be independent often discover in their seventies that independence was so… + Lifestyle
- Aug 12, 2026 Psychology says people who can't stop scrolling aren't chasing entertainment + Advice