The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

We have reached the seventh and final day of the Happiness Challenge! Congratulations on your efforts to take care of your emotional, psychological, and physical health by building and strengthening your connections. You’ve assessed your social universe, made an eight-minute phone call (or two), chatted up someone you didn’t know, expressed your thanks, reached out to people at work, and put plans on the calendar.

Now that we have the tools to improve our “social fitness,” the work of sustaining it begins. I called Dr. Bob Waldinger, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical Scho...