
Positive Psychology Coaching: Nurturing Desire on the Road to Change
by Lynda Wallace
Faculty and practitioners share wisdom on positive psychology, health and wellness, mindfulness, and living the good life. Want to contribute? Check out the submission guidelines.
by Maria Sirois How large do you wish to feel inside yourself? How bold is your dream? How much wisdom do you hope to bring forth? How much kindness will you steward? How often can beneficence...
by Maria Sirois The path of transformation is rarely smooth. As we shift, relationships shift, structures become undone, opportunities arise and feelings cascade in the context of novel ways of...
by Maria Sirois Change cannot happen from the platform of the past or the misty possibilities of the future. It happens from right here, right now. It happens from the choices directly in front of...
by Maria Sirois Goethe said this: "Tell a wise person or else keep silent." I say this: Tell only the choir about the transformation you are seeking, or else keep it to yourself. Too often, the...
by Maria Sirois Here is the math I wish we had all learned in school: Five minutes a day of something that lifts you + periodic boosts of positive self-regard = a life of increasing success. If you...
by Maria Sirois I’m staring as I write this at two bookcases full of self-help and psychology books. They represent a small portion of my collection of texts, cds, videos, tapes, poems, and...
by Maria Sirois Sorrow lifts. Joy fades. After the darkness comes the light. As Pema Chodron reminds us, things come together, then they fall apart. Nothing lasts forever. Accepting this reality is...
by Maria Sirois Making the rounds of TEDx is 13 year old Logan LaPlante, who speaks about hacking his education. Homeschooled for years now, the criteria for what he pursues in depth is what he...
by Megan McDonough In a well-known Washington Post experiment, one of the world's best violinists, Joshua Bell, played a Stradivari at a train station during rush hour in D.C. Hardly anyone noticed....