Positive Psychology
“Well-being” Is Whole-Person Wellness
The term “Well-being” may have come along at just the right time. Public speakers and marketers are re-branding wellness as wellbeing by saying that well-being is more complete, more holistic. Well-being, they say, incorporates the whole person, their environment, their financial picture, their career, etc. On the one hand it’s too bad that we have to invent a new term…
Coaching With a Positive Psychology Approach to Wellness Motivation Using PERMA-V
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter F. Drucker
As a psychologist I’ve often been asked by professionals in the healthcare and health promotion fields “How do you motivate these people?” I’ve never liked that question. The use of the term ‘these people’ often meant the person…
Positivity and Perspective Needed in These Times
It is easy to feel under bombardment today with news of COVID-19, economic chaos, and all of the fallout that reaches into our communities, our families and our lives. There can be a sense of negative overwhelm that can seem inescapable. This is true for us as well as for our wellness coaching clients. We all know that dwelling on…
