A few weeks back, I wrote an article called, “You Could Lose it All,” about confronting the risk of tremendous loss. Coincidentally, the week I wrote that article, my mother almost “lost it all” in a freak car accident on a stormy night. She was driving home from San Francisco to San Jose on a Friday night at 9:30 p.m. in the fast lane on I-280 in a torrential downpour. [...]
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Economy Goes Down, Health Goes Up
Questions about the economy have consumed the world media of the past few years. We ask, “what is wrong with the economy?” and “How can it be fixed?” But few people have asked the question we should be asking . .. “What’s the economy for, anyway?” This is the question that authors John De Graaf and David K. Batker ask in their new book (aptly titled,) “What’s the Economy For [...]
Neuroplasticity: Healthy Shortcuts to a Happier Life
Today’s article is by Ashley Davis Bush, a licensed psychotherapist and grief counselor who has just published a new book, Shortcuts to Inner Peace: 70 Simple Paths to Everyday Serenity, which shows how one can find inner peace, even amidst the most stressful, annoying, or challenging situations. Take a deep breath and enjoy . . . Neuroplasticity is, for good reason, one of the buzziest buzzwords in the field of [...]
Face, Butt, Wit: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places
This article was also published today on Positive Psychology News Daily. I previously wrote an article about Sam Sommers’ new book, Situations Matter (see Why Men are better than Women at Math.) But I liked this book so much that I agreed to write a second article in order to participate in their online book tour traveling around the internet (cool idea.) The theme of the book is about the [...]
Suffering, Addiction, and a Compassionate Way Out
Today’s article is by a former Tibetan Buddhist nun, Paldrom Collins,who counsels individuals and couples to find more love, deeper peace and meaning in their lives and relationships. Along with her husband, George Collins, MA, she wrote the book “A Couple’s Guide to Sexual Addiction: Step-by-Step Plan to Rebuild Trust & Restore Intimacy.” Living in this constantly changing world can feel like being on a roller coaster ride with no end [...]
The Psychology of Wellbeing Best of 2011
These were some of my favorite articles of the year (in case you missed ‘em!) The First Rule of Happiness: You Do Not Talk About Happiness If you saw the movie Fight Club, you may remember Brad Pitt as the colorful Tyler Durden, sharing the rules of Fight Club: “The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.” (The second rule, by the way, is “you [...]
The Psychology of Wellbeing Blog Honor Roll
The Psychology of Wellbeing would not be what it is without the inspiration of other bloggers out there. These are the blogs that spark my creativity and make me want to become a part of the larger blogging community: “The Good Life” by Chris Peterson. Chris is just a great story teller. He talks about research from the field of positive psychology but he has a knack for making it [...]
A Reason to be Happy
You think you’ve had a rough life? This guest post is by Dr. Rob Pennington,a psychologist and the author of Find The Upside Of The Down Times: How To Turn Your Worst Experiences Into Your Best Opportunities, which chronicles the lessons he learned after getting shot, fired, divorced, audited and remarried with a spouse who then passed away from a devastating illness. There is a lot we can learn from him. [...]
Why Men are better than Women at Math (Situations Matter)
Men are better than women at math and science. This is a comment likely to rile the feathers of some of my more feminist readers, and yet I could easily support such a statement with evidence showing that men get higher SAT scores in math than women or how science and technology careers are predominantly male disciplines. In spite of this evidence, I wouldn’t be the first to get into trouble over comments [...]
Smarts and Stamina: Flourishing for Busy People
Last week, fellow MAPP graduates, Marie-Josee Shaar and Kathryn Britton published their new book: Smarts and Stamina: The Busy Person’s Guide to Optimal Health and Performance. I was honored to have been asked to write the foreword for their book. This week on Psychology of Wellbeing, I share with you the foreword I wrote for them. I hope it inspires you to buy the book. The book includes over 50 actionable [...]
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