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Four Resilience Skills To Counter Depression and Unhealthy Stress

Christopher L. Heffner, PsyD, PhD — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:31:10 +0000

Stress Is Good Stress can be bad but it can also be good. And even when it is bad, it can still be good. Let me explain. While we typically think of stress as a negative, there is a type of stress called eustress that is considered positive and healthy. Eustress is the stress we…

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Self-Efficacy – How We Can, Not Why We Can’t

Christopher L. Heffner, PsyD, PhD — Fri, 14 May 2021 13:00:40 +0000

The title of this blog post comes from a Ted Talk by Peter Sage. I'll link to the video below so you can watch it yourself. In the video, Sage talks about the incredibly limiting impact of self doubt. A quote of his I really liked is "You will never rise above your own opinion…

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Character Strengths and the Virtuous Life

Christopher L. Heffner, PsyD, PhD — Mon, 03 May 2021 05:39:17 +0000

The ultimate goal in positive psychology is to help individuals and communities thrive. We thrive by maximizing our character strengths in pursuit of well-being. Read my post on Well-Being and the Five 'Happy' Lives to learn more about well-being. To read all about Character Strengths, get the original book on the topic, Character Strengths and…

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Brief History of Positive Psychology (Part 2)

Christopher L. Heffner, PsyD, PhD — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:03:44 +0000

Continued From Part 1... But Wait, There is Good News Remember, Csikszentmihalyi found that teenagers can be unhappy and can see life through their suffering, but he also found an interesting exception. When teenagers focus their energies on tasks that are challenging, their mood is more upbeat. In other words, he found evidence of when…

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Genes May Contribute to Sense of Fairness

Neil Petersen — Wed, 01 May 2019 17:00:05 +0000

Do you have a strong, automatic reaction when you encounter a situation that’s unfair? Everyone has a sense of what’s fair and what’s not, but that sense seems to be more pronounced in some people than others. And a new study suggests one possible reason: genes. In the study, researchers in China ran an experiment…

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