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# Positive Psychology

## [“Well-being” Is Whole-Person Wellness](https://realbalance.com/well-being-is-whole-person-wellness)

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**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…

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## [Coaching With a Positive Psychology Approach to Wellness Motivation Using PERMA-V](https://realbalance.com/coaching-with-a-positive-psychology-approach-to-wellness-motivation-using-perma-v)

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*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…

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## [Positivity and Perspective Needed in These Times](https://realbalance.com/positivity-and-perspective-needed-in-these-times)

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**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…

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