Goldie Hawn is looking to share the secret to happiness through the MindUP project, as part of The Hawn Foundation. Happiness is an experience the 70-year-old actress has felt for as long as she can even remember.
"I asked my mom. She said, 'You were a happy baby,'" Hawn told People. "One of the reasons I looked into the state of happiness is because I felt this innate tickle inside of me, close to my heart."
She continued, "It's how I described to Katie [daughter Kate Hudson] what God felt like when she was little, because it feels like this amazing sense of joy, just before you are going to laugh."
Being concerned about the daily problems that today's children struggle with, Hawn started the MindUP program 13 years ago.
Among those problems was "an uptick in suicide, dropping out of school, an increase in bullying and disruptive behavior, [and] spending too much time with technology."
Used in over 600 schools across the globe, MindUP's 15-lesson program "deals with children's ability to regulate emotionally, to prevent stress, to become more self-aware and create more empathy," Hawn explained. "It teaches kids about their most precious tool, their brain," she added.
So what's the secret to happiness? According to Goldie Hawn, "The ups and downs of life are there." The mom of three (to Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson and Wyatt Russell) continued:
"It is not always happy. What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now but I am not a sad person.'"
On the other hand, Goldie's longtime partner and "The Hateful Eight" star Kurt Russell says his true happiness comes from "when I have a good day with Goldie, my grandkids and my kids."
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have been together since 1983 and later starred in 1987's "Overboard" together; the two have been together for 32 years now.
Goldie Hawn net worth is $60 million.
