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by Tal Ben-Shahar Taste the joy that springs from labor. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In Hebrew, the word for “work” (avoda) stems from the same root as the word for “slave” (evod). Most of us...
by Elaine O’Brien Movement practices are vital to our wholebeing. Our body, carriage (how we hold our body), and how we move are integral to how we think, feel, and act at every age and stage of our...
A Podcast Today, we wanted to share with you a podcast that's inspired in part by research on embodied positive psychology—in particular, the research of Amy Cuddy on how "power poses" (such as...
by: Karissa Thacker Authenticity in leadership carries with it a fundamental paradox. We think of authentic leadership as being the real “us,” i.e., the real deal. Moreover, we talk a lot today...
by Karissa Thacker Most of us tend to think of transparency as an “either/or” thing. Someone is not transparent and that is a bad thing. We usually mean they are hiding something from us. Another...
by Fiona Trembath In his book Flourish, Martin Seligman devotes an entire chapter to the master of applied positive psychology program (MAPP) and the “magic” of the course content and student...
by Barbara Fredrickson In this excerpt from her book Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection, Barbara Fredrickson shares why love has a special status as our “supreme...
by Caren Osten When I pick up my tenth grader, Simon, after school, I ask him to tell me something good that happened during his day—this exercise being a small nugget of wisdom (among many) that I...
by Louis Cinquino I did not want to. But I had no choice. I set the alarm for 5:15 am. My mind knew all the reasons I should—in fact, I would be presenting them later that day, to my fellow...
