Train Your Brain to Remember the Good Stuff

The more vividly you can capture happy moments, the easier it will be to revisit them in harder times

Ashley Abramson
Forge
Published in
4 min readAug 27, 2020

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Black man smiling over a cup of tea.
Photo: Granger Wootz/Getty Images

After a long string of bad days, Tuesday night was an unexpected bright spot. My husband and I followed our sons on their scooters for a post-dinner romp at the neighborhood playground, which we had all to ourselves. The…

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Ashley Abramson
Forge

Writer-mom hybrid. Health & psychology stories in NYT, WaPo, Allure, Real Simple, & more.