The Happier Life Project

Happiness Hack: Day 9 - Support Your Mood With Hydration

Daily Happiness Hack
As part of this January series, Gabby is sharing one gentle happiness hack each day - small, supportive shifts to help you feel a little happier and healthier as the month unfolds.
In today’s episode, Gabby explores how being slightly under-hydrated can quietly affect mood, energy, and emotional steadiness, and how increasing your water intake across the day can help your body (and mind) feel more supported.
With a kind, practical invitation to “top up” rather than strive or track, this episode focuses on hydration as an act of self-care, not self-improvement.
A small, realistic step toward feeling clearer, steadier, and more energised.
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Happiness Hack: Day 8 - Speak to Yourself Like Someone You Love

Daily Happiness Hack
Throughout January, host Gabby is sharing daily happiness hacks; simple, compassionate practices to help you feel more supported from the inside out.
In today’s episode, Gabby explores the impact of inner dialogue, especially during moments of tiredness, stress, or self-doubt. Rather than forcing positivity or repeating affirmations that don’t land, this happiness hack focuses on softening the way you speak to yourself.
A gentle reminder that kindness - not criticism - is what truly helps you move forward.
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Happiness Hack: Day 7 - Rest Is Not a Reward

Daily Happiness Hack
This January, The Happier Life Project is offering one short happiness hack each day; gentle reminders designed to support your mental and emotional wellbeing as life begins to pick up pace again.
In this episode, Gabby challenges the belief that rest has to be earned. Instead, this happiness hack reframes rest as a biological need, something your nervous system requires in order to feel safe and recover.
With a small, practical invitation to pause, this episode encourages you to rest without justification, guilt, or productivity attached.
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Happiness Hack: Day 6 - Check In Without Judging

Daily Happiness Hack
As part of this January series, host Gabby is sharing one gentle happiness hack each day; small moments of support designed to reduce pressure and help you feel steadier as the year unfolds.
In today’s episode, Gabby explores the way we often speak to ourselves when something feels off, and how quickly curiosity can turn into self-criticism. This happiness hack invites you to check in with yourself without judgement - and to respond with care rather than blame.
With a simple, practical takeaway, this episode offers a kinder way to meet your inner world, especially on days when emotions feel heavy or unclear.
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Happiness Hack: Day 5 - You’re Allowed to Start Small

Daily Happiness Hack
Throughout January, Gabby is sharing a short happiness hack each day, designed to support your mental and emotional wellbeing without pressure or overwhelm.
In today’s episode, Gabby gently challenges the idea that January has to begin with big goals or bold changes. Instead, this happiness hack focuses on the power of starting small.
With a simple, practical takeaway, this episode reminds you that small steps build trust, safety, and steadiness, and that beginning exactly where you are is more than enough.
A reassuring listen for days when motivation feels low and gentleness feels essential.
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Happiness Hack: Day 4 - Slow One Thing Down

Daily Happiness Hack
As part of this January series, The Happier Life Project is sharing one gentle happiness hack each day; small, manageable ideas to help you feel calmer and more grounded as the year unfolds.
Even on quiet days, our bodies can still be rushing. In this episode, Gabby invites you to slow just one small thing down... not your whole life, not your to-do list. Just one moment.This simple practice helps signal safety to your nervous system and gently ease you out of urgency, without needing to stop or withdraw from your day.
A calm reminder that slowing one thing can soften everything around it.
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Happiness Hack: Day 3 - Let Today Be Neutral

Daily Happiness Hack
Throughout January, The Happier Life Project is offering one gentle happiness hack a day; small shifts designed to reduce emotional pressure and support your wellbeing.
We’re often taught that happiness should be the baseline emotion. But most days aren’t meant to feel amazing... or awful.
In day three's episode, host Gabby explores the quiet relief of letting today be neutral. Not joyful. Not perfect. Just okay. This gentle reframe helps ease the pressure to feel good and offers a simple way to lower expectations without lowering self-worth. Neutral days aren’t empty days, they’re spacious ones.
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Happiness Hack: Day 2 - A 60 Second Nervous System Reset

Daily Happiness Hack
As part of this January series, host Gabby is sharing one short happiness hack each day; small, supportive practices to help you feel steadier and more grounded as the year begins.
When life feels uncertain, the body often holds tension before we even realise it. For day two's happiness hack, Gabby shares a simple 60-second breathing reset designed to signal safety to your nervous system. No equipment, no preparation, just a moment you can return to anytime your mind feels busy or your body feels on edge.
A practical tool to help you feel calmer, more regulated, and a little more at ease, wherever you are.
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Happiness Hack: Day 1 - You Don’t Need a New You

Daily Happiness Hack
This month on The Happier Life Project, Gabby is sharing a short, gentle happiness hack every day; small moments of support designed to help you feel steadier, calmer, and a little more at ease as the first month of the new year unfolds.
In today’s episode, Gabby invites you to begin January without reinvention. You don’t need to be more productive, more positive, or more put-together to deserve calm, care, or contentment.
Through a simple grounding ritual and a compassionate reframe, this episode helps your nervous system soften and reminds you that you’re allowed to start exactly as you are.
A gentle place to begin the year - no fixing required.
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Bonus: Closing 2025 with Care - Your End of Year Mental Health Check-In with Gabby Sanderson

As we close out 2025, this final episode of The Happier Life Project takes a compassionate look back at a year that felt undeniably heavy for so many. With political tension, rapid leaps in AI, global conflict and a relentless cost-of-living crisis, it’s no surprise that rates of anxiety and depression have soared worldwide. 
In this reflective bonus episode, Gabby explores the emotional toll of a turbulent year, and the unexpected clarity it can bring. Through the conversations held on this podcast, personal experiences, and even a year-end yoga class themed around shedding old skin for the Year of the Snake, Gabby invites listeners to consider what they’re ready to release before stepping into 2026. Perfectionism, people-pleasing, carrying everything alone; what are you finally putting down?
Plus, you’ll hear highlights from her conversation with Reverend and the Makers’ Jon McClure, recorded this time last year, where they discuss loneliness at Christmas, mixed seasonal emotions, and why dancing and music can be powerful tools for mental health. 
It’s a gentle, grounding close to the year, and a reminder you don’t have to earn rest with exhaustion. The Happier Life Project returns on January 1st 2026 with something special: a daily happiness hack every day throughout the month.
If you're feeling suicidal, lonely, or depressed, the Samaritans helpline is available 24/7 at 116 123, including on Christmas Day. You can also use a text-based option like "Hey Sam" a mental health support text line for young people, by texting 439-726.
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