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Five Mobile Apps for Mindfulness

Happify is an ideal app for improving mindfulness and happiness.

Millennials Make Themselves Miserable Fretting About Work but Boomer Colleagues Can Teach Them to Chill

Research shows workers who launched careers during the Great Recession are plagued with anxieties much less prevalent among older colleagues.

Self-care Apps Are the Latest Wellness Trend

As the wellness movement surges, the concept of self-care is increasingly in vogue, and app developers are rushing to make the most of it.

The Tech to Help Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

The Happify app hopes to help people overcome negativity and stress and become more resilient and grateful.

Happify Health, a SoHo-based company that offers a digital mental health and wellness platform, has received $9 million from Minneapolis-based TT Capital Partners as it looks to sell its service to more employers and health plans.

Happify Takes $9 Million for Emotional Wellness

Happify Inc., which offers games and activities aimed at improving people’s emotional well‑being, has raised $9 million in Series C funding.

App Aims to Make Employees Happier

“Employee emotional health has a huge impact on productivity and effectiveness of the company,” says Ofer Leidner, co-founder and president of Happify and a 2017 recipient of an EBN Benefits Technology Innovator Award.

Happify on "TODAY"

On The Today Show, Mario Armstrong demonstrates the Uplift game from the Happify app, which combines science and mindfulness to help reduce negative thoughts and feelings.

Benefits Technology Innovators

Leidner helped create Happify, which aims to disrupt the mental health space by providing a digital platform that helps employees understand the source of their feelings.

How to Think Positive Every Day

Ever imagined an app to ‘happify’ ourselves. An app to delight ourselves and brighten our day? Then try Happify, an app designed specially for us to handle our negative emotions.

7 Apps and Programs That Will Reduce Office Stress

Learning how to deal with stress is a skill, and Happify helps develop this skill. Through evidence-based techniques, Happify helps users understand the source of their feelings. Then, it teaches how to turn negative feelings into positive ones.

If You Want to Be Happy at Work, Have a Life Outside of It

People often have a poor understanding of what makes them happy, and this applies at work, too. To figure out what really matters to employees, we analyzed data from our app, Happify.

Why Wellness Should Be a Year-Long Resolution

Happify's CEO, Tomer Ben-Kiki, writes: While it’s great to focus organizational goodwill around the beginning of a new year, our experience working with large corporate clients and more than 3 million individuals points to a few key components which are critical for your program’s success.

Happify Expands into Research with Launch of Happify Labs

This move will enable the New York-based startup to team with academic researchers to conduct clinical trials on interventions related to positive psychology and neuroscience.

Science and Technology will Make Mental and Emotional Wellbeing Scalable, Accessible, and Cheap

Ask yourself a simple question. If it were an issue for you, what would you pay to get rid of stress, anxiety, loneliness, sadness, physical and mental pain, or depression?

Technology Making an Impact on Mental Health

As heath care costs rise, solving mental health problems before they begin is becoming more appealing. And technology has a solution.

Tools to De-Stress When You're Caring for an Elder

Life is stressful! Being mindful of someone else’s life? Even more stressful. Chances are that you or someone you know is caring for an aging loved one.

Overview: Health Tech Startups Innovating the Behavioral Health Space

We’ve identified several early stage tech companies that have the potential to navigate a changing reimbursement landscape and solve for the stigma and access hurdles that have created historical gaps in BH care.

Resilience Requires Recharging: 5 Ways To Unplug When You're Short On Time

It’s difficult working in and managing a high intensity workplace. The expectation that you will be available around the clock has never been stronger as companies do whatever they can to retain clients.

Research: Millennials Think About Work Too Much

What’s causing Millennials so much angst? We decided to harness the power of big data to answer this question.

Can This App Make Me Happier?

For months I tried doing little tasks designed to improve my life, hoping they would add up to something big.

This Is How You're Failing Millennials in the Workplace

Recent research of more than 250,000 people, conducted by Happify and published in the Harvard Business Review in July, indicates that millennials tend to have a negative outlook when it comes to their career and their future. Is this just another example of millennials feeling entitled, or are employers part of the problem?

Maximizing the Impact of e-Therapy and Serious Gaming: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Internet interventions for mental health, including serious games, online programs, and apps, hold promise for increasing access to evidence-based treatments and prevention.

Why Your Late Twenties is the Worst Time of Your Life

At Happify, our data science team looked at various psychological indicators of some 88,000 people who joined our service during 2015. We found evidence both for the prominence of the quarter-life crisis and for the rise in well‑being that follows it.

Happify Launches Enterprise Business: Happify Health

Announcing the launch of our enterprise-focused business, Happify Health. Through Happify Health, Happify will expand its evidence-based, highly engaging digital behavior interventions platform to large healthcare providers and employers.

13 Of the Best Apps to Manage Your Stress

A brain-training app based on research showing that some types of activity can help you combat negativity, anxiety and stress while fostering positive traits like gratitude and empathy.

Simple Ways To Help Promote Positive Thinking

Improving your outlook on life may be easier than you think, and new technology you can use at home can actually train your brain to be happy.

In 'App Economy,' Here's How N.Y.C. Challenges Silicon Valley

While app makers across the United States are featured in the report, its author noted in an email to New York Business Journal why our local economy in particular thrived in 2015 — a year that saw the global app economy hit the $120 billion mark.

Wellness Apps to Help You Navigate the New Year

Happify is a science-based app that uses activities and games for stress and anxiety relief. In the New Year, Happify can be used to retrain your brain to banish negative thoughts and create a richer, more fulfilling life.

5 Apps That Want to Make You Happier

In the vein of brain training, Happify's daily activities from quizzes, games and polls aim to help individuals improve their well‑being.

The 10 Happiest Places on the Internet

Take a look at your own happiness from a different angle with this app. Specifically, look at it as a skill set, and one you can improve, too.

5 Apps That Want to Make You Happier

Stress wreaks nearly as much havoc on our physical well‑being as it does on our mental state, but do we actually have to be happy in order to be healthy? The answer is a resounding yes.

26 Charts That Will Actually Make You A Happier Person

Because life can be tough sometimes, tbh.

Feeling Stressed? These 3 Apps and Sites Will Help Boost Your Happiness

Whether you have two minutes or an hour, Happify guides you through mental exercises to help you overcome negative thoughts and worries.

Ofer Leidner on His Wellness App, Happify

These days there are apps for just about everything, but for happiness? Ofer Leidner, tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the so-called emotional fitness platform Happify, discusses the growing industry of wellness apps.

14 Things Heart Doctors Tell Their Friends

Chronic daily stress ups blood pressure and can lead to depression and anxiety. Have dinner with your girlfriends or listen to music. I use apps: Happify, which has daily gratitude activities, is a good one.

5 Habits for a Happier, More Productive Team After a Long Holiday

Happify is a company that teaches people how to live happier lives through science-based games and activities. Happify suggests five specific things you can do when you get back to the office after a holiday that will help your team--and you--quickly re-engage and get back in the swing of things.

41 Awesome Mental Health Resources When You Can’t Afford A Therapist

Designed with input from 18 health and happiness experts, Happify’s positive mood-training program is psychologist approved. Even cooler? Its website links to bonus videos that are sure to make you smile.

Tips to Boost Your Body Confidence, Health and Happiness

Rather than watching the number on the scale and being unhappy about it, developing a more positive body image could be better for your long-term well‑being. Happify's infographic has more ideas for boosting your body confidence.

Apps to Train Your Brain: Tech Minute

Happify wants to help you achieve a happier state of mind. You can work on areas like stress, empathy, and self-confidence through mini games and guided meditations.

Meditation for the Busy Bee

Establishing a meditation routine can be difficult. You’re busy! Who has time to breathe, let alone sit and breathe? But if you think the only way you’ll learn how to meditate is with a 25-hour day, think again.

50 Websites Your Startup Needs to Succeed in 2015

Being happy doesn't always come easily or naturally, but it's a must--especially for stressed out entrepreneurs.

An App That Aims to Make You Happy

Ofer Leidner, Co-Founder and President of Happify, talks about the app and how it aims to make you happy.

10 Stress-Relieving Apps To Help Beat Anxiety

I just started using Happify a few days ago to help improve my mood and lower stress…

A Millennial lost confidence when she couldn’t find a full-time job. Here’s how she got her mojo back.

Ashley thought her goal was to find a new job. But after 21 days of coaching with Miller, she realized that what she really wanted was to be happy again.

App Helps Teach Happiness Skills

Can playing on your computer or mobile device make you happy? The creators of Happify, an online “gym for your soul”, certainly think so. The virtual tool is designed to make you better at being happy.

Download a Dose of Happiness

Take a break from texting and Facebook to check out some smartphone apps devoted to lifting your mood.

We Tried It: 5 Stress-Relief Apps That Actually Work

We can't always justify slipping away for an hour for a guided class. But, we can't use a busy day as an excuse to ignore self-care. If anything, those are the days we need it most. So, with the help of our trusty smartphones, we'll find a way to steal a few minutes for ourselves.

7 Apps That Will Make You a Happier Person in 2015

Happify uses the science of happiness to deliver research-backed happiness-promoting vibes to the palm of your hands (or desktop). Your journey begins by specifying your personal goals, and then Happify gives you customized daily activities to help you get there.

The 30 Most Brilliant Social Media Campaigns of the Last Half of 2014

According to Happify's Twitter bio, they're "turning the latest innovations in the science of happiness into fun activities and games that help you lead a more fulfilling life." True to their mission statement, Happify regularly shares positive quotes and life tips on their Twitter account.

6 Fitness Apps That Make You Feel Good About Yourself

More than a fitness platform, Happify is all about the process of getting to where you want to be in life (happier, wiser, healthier)—and using science-based strategies to help you get there.

Small Steps Everyone Can Take to Arrive at Greater Joy

Chances are you could be happier—and it would probably be worth your while, as research shows that happiness breeds health, money, stronger relationships, better marriages and more. But who has time to cultivate joy when there is so much to worry about?

Positive Thinking, with a Little Help from Your Phone

Happify is perhaps the most sophisticated positive vibes app available now. The idea of this free iOS app is to train you into thinking positively and feeling happy by engaging you in various “tracks” with different goals like improving your confidence or seeing new possibilities.

Happify: Get Happy

I am by nature a happy, glass half full kind of guy and I would love nothing more than for everyone to feel happy all the time! But happiness can be elusive. My job is to find tech that helps our viewers live better.

10 Best Apps to Train Your Brain

Train your brain to be happier? Yep, research shows that some activities help build your ability to conquer negative thoughts, show gratitude, cope with stress, and empathize -- all essential ingredients for a fuller, happier life.

Happiness is…Positive Technology

….thank you to positive technology for helping us pursue happiness habits, gratitude, and wellbeing - all on our smart phones and laptops.

15 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Happier

Happiness is something everyone wants, and wants to feel a lot more often--because where happiness is concerned, too much is never enough.

Katie Couric: How Science and Technology Can Help Make You Happier

Can you really click your way to happiness? You've heard of Fitbit and FuelBand — high-tech ways to get physically fit. Now there are apps for “emotional fitness” and Happify is one of them.

The First Three Pillars of Positive Technology

Over the past six months, on these pages, I have been tracking the emergence of a new category in consumer technology devoted to the development and democratization of tools that promote mental fitness.

Get Happy! Internet as Personal Happiness Trainer

Many are turning to the Internet to re-train their brains to be happier. Does it really work?

Will Digital Technology Disrupt the Psychotherapy Market?

Not long ago, I wrote a brief article about the curious rise of a new technology category, which for lack of a better term can be called happy-tech. I asked the question, in my headline: “Can Social Technology Help Make You Happy?”

Happify

The thing about happiness is, there's nothing wrong about happiness. So says Ofer Leidner, co-creator of the new app, Happify.

The Happiness App

On a sunny morning, Ofer Leidner, a co-creator of an app called Happify, sat in a meeting room at the Fueled Collective, in SoHo, where about half of Happify’s staff works…

Here’s How to Spend Your Way to Euphoria

Happiness research has been in vogue since the recession and supplies much needed answers as to how we should spend our money.

Here's How Money CAN Buy Happiness

We're always looking for quick ways to be happier. So here's one: Spend some money. According to a new infographic from Happify, money can buy us a certain amount of happiness — depending on how you choose to spend it.

6 Ways You Can Live a Happy Financial Life

It's funny how much time and energy we put into obtaining possessions, while mounting evidence indicates that these items don't really buy us happiness. I saw this great infographic from Happify, and it's well worth sharing.

The Secret to Happiness Isn't Income or a Lot of Stuff

Would you like to be happy? Of course -- but how? How much income do you need to feel financially secure enough to feel happy? How should you spend the money you make to "buy happiness" -- if that's even possible?

Wanna Get Happy? Check Out This Awesome Infographic!

OK, who hasn’t put Pharrell’s “Happy” on repeat? And for good reason! Music has been scientifically proven to help make you happy. And we have the proof — all in a fun infographic!

Five Quick Ways To Make Yourself Happier

The app trains your brain to think and act in ways that will make you happier. For example, reaching out to old friends, being thankful for the good things in life, and being nice to others.

The Science of Happiness

So, what exactly is this thing we call "happiness" and how do we get it?

What Does it Take to Raise Happy Kids?

What makes a child happy? How do we raise happy kids? We all know that money doesn’t create long lasting happiness, but if that’s the case, then what does?

The Everyday Behavior That's Killing Your Relationship

Consistently rolling your eyes during fights may be a sign that your relationship is doomed, according to Happify, a digital gaming platform that allows you to "train your brain" into becoming happy.

Here's How to Have a Happy Relationship, According to Science

Scientists spend a lot of time figuring out what makes people happy, especially when it comes to love and relationships. Thanks to the folks at Happify -- a website dedicated to the science of happiness -- all that wonderful scientific mumbo-jumbo has been distilled into an infographic.

The Science of Happy Couples, Explained

There are a lot of studies out there about what you need to have a successful relationship. And, when you look at all of them combined, this research transforms into a scientific definition of the perfect couple.

This Infographic Reveals the Secrets of the Happiest Couples

PSA: Valentine's Day is next week. Whether or not you celebrate the occasion, this infographic from happiness training app Happify could help you improve your romantic relationship.

Happify Is An Online Platform To Make You Happier

Based on theories of positive psychology, the site comes up with activities and suggestions to make you a happier person. But actually making yourself happy is up to you.

An App to Make You Happier (Yup, It Exists)

Is happiness just a natural state some of us are born into (and others are not)? Is it a matter of luck? Nope, say social scientists like Harvard's Shawn Achor, to a large degree happiness is a matter of good mental habits.

Happify Trains You to Be Happier, Using Games Backed by Science

Happiness is both a skill you can control and a habit you can develop. Happify, created by scientists and game developers, is an awesome webapp that trains you to live a happier, less stressful, and more fulfilling life.

Happify wants to Help You be Happier, Using Science

Most people want to be happy, but sometimes life gets in the way. Happify wants to help you live a happier life, using science. The startup launched publicly today…

Can Social Technology Help Make You Happy?

Now comes a startup called Happify that promises to do just that. Even more interesting, from my perspective: Happify not only drafts on the popularity of positive psychology. The science behind the app is based on it.

How Happy Are You? Happify Wants to Train Your Brain for Emotional Fitness

Over the past couple of years, a smattering of studies have suggested that technology is taking its toll on our emotional wellbeing. But a new startup wants to use the web to commercialize the lessons of “positive psychology” and help people hone their well‑being skills.

How to Finally Put Down Candy Crush (and More Ways to Kick Unwanted Habits)

It's also the idea behind Happify, a new emotional-wellness app that helps people build happiness habits via interactive games. Members earn medals by completing activities to help them develop skills like "cope better with stress."

Find Happiness With an App

Can an app boost your mood? That's what the creators of Happify are hoping. The app suggests games and exercises that have been shown to increase positive emotions and improve life satisfaction.

How Games Can Save the World

Most of us were brought up to believe that there is a stark divide between play and productivity. Yet it's becoming evident that the distinction isn't as clear-cut as we were made to think.

How to Train Yourself to Be Happy: Testing the Happify App

New app Happify has zoned in on the gap in the market for DIY happiness. Last week, Happify launched with nearly $4 million of private funding and 100,000 member sign-ups in beta mode alone.