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Is There a Workout for Your Mental Wellness?
For many years scientists believed that the brain stopped developing new neural pathways after the first few years of life. This meant that critical periods of development were from birth to 5 years of age and brains would only be plastic during youth. The new science...
Why Well-Being at School is the Elephant in the Classroom
The Problem We all know that well-being (social intelligence, mindfulness, self-regulation, grit, resilience, etc.) are important. Mental health is the number one issue in schools today as identified by our teachers, principals, superintendents, directors of...
Why Focusing on What’s “Right” is Positive Psychology’s Best Parenting Strength
In her parenting book The Strength Switch, Lea Waters looks at parenting through the lens of strengths. Strengths-based parenting is a technique that encourages you to see what’s “right” about your children. Discovering and fostering their strengths rather than...
Why Worry is the Biggest Time Waste Ever (and how to stop)
Unlike many things in the positive psychology realm, worry is quite easy to define. Worry is a chain of negative thoughts about the same or different topics that can have negative consequences for you in the future if a solution is not reached. Worrying is future...
How Do You Know If You Work For a Positive Organization?
A positive work environment is one where employees feel good about coming to work and have motivation that sustains them throughout the workday. What they do matters. And more importantly, it matters that they are the ones doing the work. With the new emphasis on...
The Danger of Confusing Empathy or Sympathy with Compassion
We're hearing more about the positive traits of empathy and compassion. Emotional intelligence is becoming more important than other intelligences (like IQ) at school at work and in life. In past generations these two words might both have fallen into the category of...
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