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The Never Ending Search for Beauty
What will make us truly happy? There is a lot of pressure in the media to look beautiful. Do we just age gracefully and accept the inevitable impact of time or do we want to make the best of our body and brains? How do we judge what is acceptable and what is not? Are...
Loneliness or Solitude? It depends on your point of view!
As a loneliness researcher, I am interested in the history and meaning of the word. Did you know there is no specific word that means the opposite of loneliness? This is intriguing in itself! Just to add to the mix, if you compare the word solitude with loneliness you...
The Light Life Flow Up
To Flow up is to glow up. I love pop culture references in synergy with the positive psychology terminology. When we glow up, we are reinventing ourselves in the best of ways. I've decided to reinvent the reinvention and call my own journey a 'flow up'. To engage with...
How Comparisons Affect our Happiness and Psychological Wellbeing
Racing for gold Imagine yourself performing your favourite sport in the Tokyo Olympics – maybe a running event. You’ve worked hard, trained for it, you’re ready for the big day. On the day, it gets off to a good start, you race hard, and it goes better than expected....
Using Positive Psychology in Practice to Manage a Challenge
PP in Practice In this blog I’m aiming to describe how I used a range of PP strategies in real-time to help me cope with a minor drama and look at the ways in which they helped. I also look at how this is different from the way in which I might have responded in the...
The Light Life in Transitions
Life is a series of transitions. It skips a beat sometimes. Whenever we have a legal holiday on a Monday, I spend all day Tuesday, thinking it's Monday. Today, is such a day. When we're going through transitions, our routine has hiccups. My decision to create...
The Light Life and Happiness Noir
Happiness Noir came about after working with clients who were suffering, but had strikes against them beyond what they could help or control. They were female, in a male world. They were fiscally disadvantaged (not all, but most) compared to the rest of the world....
Positive Performance
Every organisation, small or big, wants to be successful. Whether they will succeed in this aspiration does not only depend on their products or technology. It mainly all revolves around their people. Research in the area of organizational psychology demonstrates that...
What is Psychological Safety and Why is it Important?
The term ‘psychological safety is used increasingly lately, but what is it, what does it feel like, how do you create it and why is it important? What is psychological safety? “Psychological safety is being able to’ be yourself’ without fear of negative consequences...
