by Lynn Soots | September, 2015 | Positive Psychology
PERMA – A is for Accomplishment/Achievement This blog brings us to our last element of the PERMA model; Accomplishment/Achievement. Given this is the last element, I want to point out that the order of the elements are not a hierarchical but rather possible...
by Lynn Soots | August, 2015 | Education, Health, self-development
Habits are rituals and behaviors that we perform automatically, allowing us to carry out essential activities such as brushing our teeth, taking a shower, getting dressed for work, and following the same routes every day without thinking about them. Our unconscious...
by Lynn Soots | August, 2015 | Positive Psychology, self-development
I want, I need, I must have, If only I could get…do any of these sound familiar? All of these phrases come in about a ten minute time span of shoe shopping with my teen daughter. It is not a crime to enjoy ‘things” and to indulge ourselves in things that we enjoy, but...
by Lynn Soots | August, 2015 | Culture, Relationships, self-development
I have always had an interest in living a good life – perhaps a natural attraction towards positive psychology. An experience early on in life eventually taught me the value of seeing the self as far deeper than the finely curated fragments of body and mind that we...
by Lynn Soots | August, 2015 | Health, Julie Ostrow, Positive Psychology, self-development
“I am lost in this moment. I am feeling pure joy. I am at peace” This sounds like a mantra or meditation. But, I am actually talking about my experience of participating in a laughter competition. What? There is a competition for laughter? Yes, there is....
