While everyone was running around giving thanks, and shopping till they drop on Black Friday’s and Cyber Monday’s, I have been recording my Simply Laughter Online Summit which I am hosting in January. I am so blessed to be interview amazing people who are really...
Have you been dealing with stress and the unknown? So, have I! And, I’m still here! 🙂 As it happens, life sometimes gets in the way. Namely for me, an audit by the IRS got in the way. (cue dramatic music) This all-consuming challenge I faced, managed, and pushed...
A few months ago, I wrote about how I read to a boy who was sitting in the seat behind me on a plane as we waited for a dark storm to pass by as we waited on the tarmac. This time I shall share a story of a more harrowing experience than sitting inside a stationary...
In my last blog I wrote about addiction versus habit. Habits can be positive or negative. This article explores what makes a bad habit form and how we can overcome them. Wikipedia describes a bad habit as: ‘a negative behaviour pattern. Common examples include...
Nowadays we are overwhelmed from all sides with books, retreats, courses, workshops and sabbaticals to discover yourself. The happiness market is in full swing. We have to search for our ‘authentic self. ‘ We are evolving creatures, we change constantly, so how can...
‘It’s between you and God’ is something I play over and over in my head. These were the words from my best friend Gulnar, a Master Psychologist and Hypnotherapist. I was lying on my bed where I had been pretty much glued for over 10 days. I was weak and really...
Optimism has long been regarded as a key component towards a happier, flourishing life. Most scales used to measure flourishing take levels of optimism into account, whilst Martin Seligman himself argues that pessimism and depression are closely linked. There have...
Tough Questions They’re not so tough. The philosophical or decision making questions that we ask ourselves all the time. What is the meaning of life? What shall I eat for breakfast? To some, both of those questions are as equally profound as the the other. Whom shall...
Noetic Nomad, Week 1 This is a new dawn to a new day in the time of something ‘more’ for positive psychology. I began my journey in the study and practice of positive psychology in 2007. I was a charter member of IPPA, but since, allowed that membership to...
“The only thing constant is change” Heraclitus Each and every day we are subject to the vagaries of our world. However much we may want to keep what we have constant, we have to accept that we are all subject to continuous change. Most changes are gradual...