Positive psychology

Do you want to achieve your goals, but anxiety is tripping you up? Like to keep those fun weekend plans, but depression has you counseling again? Hey, I'm Lori, dog mom, lover of nature, and hygge enthusiast.

Positive psychology skills help me overcome chronic severe PTSD.

If you're ready to learn how to overcome your anxiety and depression and rediscover happiness and purpose in life, then get your cozy on and let's get started.

Welcome back to Practical Solutions for PTSD.

This is not the spiritual command for forgiveness, although there is some overlap and we will be touching on some of that today.

But I'm talking about the character strength of forgiveness and what that looks like and what it really is and what that means.

So in the context of resilience of positive psychology, and how we use this to help us to be more resilient in our life.

And you can use, obviously, there is some overlap with spiritual context, and we will be referencing that throughout the show today.

And So as I went on this journey around positive psychology, it took me into the world of some of the greatest researchers out there.

And so I had the opportunity to study with individuals like Marty Seligman and Jonathan Haidt and Adam Grant and Angela Duckworth and David Cooper Ryder, Ed Diener, George Valiant.

going through the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at Penn.

And in that, what I realized was that so much more had been happening in the field of research that really wasn't being utilized in the field of human resources or even coaching.

And so I wrote a capstone called From Coach to Positive Psychology Coach.

Do you want to achieve your goals, but anxiety is tripping you up? Like to keep those fun weekend plans, but depression has you counseling again? Hey, [laughs] I'm Lori, dog mom, lover of nature, and hygge enthusiast.

Positive psychology skills helped me overcome chronic, severe PTSD.

If you're ready to learn how to overcome your anxiety and depression and rediscover happiness and purpose in life, then get your cozy on and let's get started.

Welcome back to Practical Solutions for PTSD and the second half of our conversation with Raquel Ida, the host of Setting Boundaries in Corporate.

They could also protect your heart.

New review from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests that positive psychology programs can produce measurable improvements in cardiovascular health in as little as 8 to 12 weeks.

Researchers reviewed 18 randomized controlled trials involving adults who already had elevated cardiovascular risk, including people with high blood pressure and heart problems.

The programs varied using mindfulness exercises, gratitude journaling, optimism training, digital apps, phone sessions, and group meetings.

And it's like when you're able to step out of yourself and see the madness of that, you're conscious.

So I always say the evolution of my work was I started with ha- the habits of happy people based in positive psychology, and when they did things for themselves mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally on a regular basis, they felt better.

Mm-hmm.

Then I moved into energy.

Nice.

After we released the positive, the first part, part one of the positive psychology episodes that we did.

Yes.

A psychologist reached out to us, a man who owns his own, who owns a practice, and kind of thanked us or acknowledged at least that the extent to which we kind of called out the importance of systems in mental health and how things like positive psychology have been used to kind of make us not think about these larger questions and only think about ourselves and how corporations and other things have kind of weaponized these tools against us to make us more compliant and less likely, I suppose, to, you know, complain.

Right.

Kind of victim blamey.

Thank you.

You're welcome.