Welcome to Week #2 of our Positive Practice. This week we are talking about Gratitude. If you are just joining us, we are in the beginning throes of our 10 weeks of practice. These 10 practices are based on the 10 areas of positive emotions from Dr. Barbara Fredrickson's book Positivity: Top Notch Research Reveals [...]
Following up from my recent post "Positivity is in the House," I'm excited to kick off ten weeks of positivity practice based on Dr. Barbara Fredrickson's book Positivity: Top Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life.Each week we are going to learn ways to "broaden and build" upon positive emotions, Dr. [...]
Invariably, we all know "that" person, be it a colleague, a family member, a friend. It's the person who sucks the life out of the room, who bursts the balloons, and who simply drags us down. Recall Rachel Dratch's character "Debbie Downer" on SNL. Let's be real, life isn't all sunshine and it is important [...]
I work in a big tower in the heart of the Financial District in New York City. I ride up and down the elevator numerous times throughout the day. On most of my trips, there is invariably one, two, three people on their phones during the ride . You have to ride a specific elevator [...]
Just the other day I heard myself say out loud to my boyfriend "I am an emotional eater." I've also heard myself say that in numerous coaching sessions on both stress and weight management as a way to relate with clients. There's a problem with this - it's always the same sentence, over and over. [...]
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