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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.
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- 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
- Aug 12, 2026 In 2012, David Raichlen put ten humans, eight dogs, and eight ferrets on treadmills and found that only the humans and… + Health & Beauty
- Aug 10, 2026 The hardest part of turning forty isn't the age itself, it's realising that a lot of the anxiety of the previous decade… + Lifestyle
- Aug 9, 2026 Why some people find the first Nordic winter genuinely restorative rather than depressing, and what it usually says… + Lifestyle