by Pamela Gail Johnson | Jul 13, 2025 | Happiness Happens Month, SOHP Weekly
Why Happiness Is Harder Than It Looks (And Still Worth It After 25 Years) When I started the Secret Society of Happy People in 1998, I couldn’t have imagined how deeply that journey would shape me—or the direction of my life. Our original purpose was simple: to...
by Pamela Gail Johnson | Aug 27, 2020 | August 2020, Happiness Happens Month, SOHP Weekly
If you’re in the path of Hurricane Laura please be safe. It looks like her reach will be wide and impact many places. You are in our thoughts and prayers. Please let me know how you fare. If you are a teacher or homeschooling parent, I know it’s a...
by Pamela Gail Johnson | Aug 21, 2020 | August 2020, Happiness Happens Month, SOHP Weekly
Life is still different for many or most of us. It seems most of us are happy challenged. It’s not that happiness isn’t happening, or that we don’t get that we are blessed so we also have moments we feel gratitude. However, we’re also...
by Pamela Gail Johnson | Aug 14, 2020 | August 2020, Happiness Happens Month, SOHP Weekly
Thank you, thank you, thank you for celebrating Happiness Happens Month with us. Social media has been filled with lots of #HappinessHappensMonth and #HappinessHappensDay hashtags — in fact, I got put in FB jail for thanking people for celebrating with us. ...
by Pamela Gail Johnson | Aug 1, 2020 | August 2020, Happiness Happens Month, SOHP Weekly
Happiness Happens Month 2020: 31 Days. 31 Smiles. For the first time in twenty years, I gave serious consideration to cancelling Happiness Happens Month. There have been previous years when culturally we were happy challenged. However, 2020 is topping a...
by Pamela Gail Johnson | Jul 31, 2020 | Happiness Happens Month, July 2020, SOHP Weekly
Thanks for all of the messages last week. And yes, happiness happens even in trying times. However, I do want everyone to know that even someone like me, who sees the silver lining more often than not, does have happy challenged moments when her happiness zappers feel...
