Picture it: 1978, Pascack Valley Hospital, Westwood, NJ - I was born an unexpected twin, breech, the youngest of four children. “Doctor you have another baby in there,” the nurse said as she was cleaning up after Christine was born. “WHAT?!??! my parents screamed.”
I grew up in the suburbs of NYC (not far from the [...]
If you can just see as I see, feel as I feel, you’ll know: I’m just as f-ed up as all y’all. Really.
The voices in my head are loud lately. Really loud. Getting in the way. It amazes me how neurobiological this stuff is: engrained in our DNA.
Last week was my birthday. 32. [...]
I spent the greater part of my 20s looking for my calling. I knew there was something out there for me that would just fit naturally with my interests and curiosities in the world. But what was I interested in? What was I curious about? Especially as my friends were moving up their respective [...]
We live in a world of doing, of checklists, of go, go, go. Especially in New York city where I live, people are running all the time: the city that never sleeps. Work, gym, dinner, party, work, sleep. It’s so easy to get caught up by this energy, but is it all so good?
As [...]
Certainly, we know more today about the benefits of social and emotional learning than ever before. Largely, many schools are taking on the task of teaching these skills in the classroom. But what happens beyond the classroom, in real life? Is the culture of our athletic fields or music rooms, our families, or our city [...]
Last week, our meetup discussed ways to really have a banging holiday season this year. A mighty group of us talked about how to use Positive Psychology (the science of happiness & success) to make this happen. We started by asking, “How do we want to be feeling on January 1?” Inspired? Excited? Rested? Hopeful?
Some [...]
I propose we attempt to set up learning organizations wherever possible to support a more positive evolution. According to Peter M. Senge, Director of the Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning Program at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Learning Organizations are places where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they [...]
Ahemmm . . . How are you?
I am so super grateful:
I write this as I head to two places: (1) to my high school alma mater, where I’m meeting with students to talk about the application of Positive Psychology in the band, a group I was a part of 15 years ago, when I was [...]
Aim: To become more mindful of everyday language, to create meaning.
Point: What we know of positive psychology is that other people matter. <roll eyes here>. Certainly, these words have been overused so much so, they’re becoming empty. Other words we use are empty, too. For example, when someone asks, “How are you?” answers like “fine” [...]
She is an old soul with a young spirit who I met at a mutual friend’s cocktail party sometime last year. She and I were hanging out in the kitchen with several others talking about what we “do” – typical cocktail party banter. But when it came to Amanda’s turn to share, she had an [...]