Louis J. Alloro, M.Ed., MAPP

Read my most recent article published today on Positive Psychology News Daily. Click here.

Can you believe Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

I’ve been thinking on this lately. Albert Einstein was a smart, smart man. But quotes of his like this make me see [...]

Well, here we are, it’s 2010!   Here’s my list of Top 10, of course with at positive psychology lens.  BIG clarification: Positive psychology is NOT just about positive thinking. It’s about being authentic and attuned, grounded, and choosing to focus attention in certain (perhaps more positive) directions - when possible, which makes it realistic.
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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?
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An amazingly  positive profile of a gentler who heals horses and people from his wheelchair in Wyoming. A great story of resilience and inspiration. Click here for his story in the New York Times October 2, 2009.

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 [...]

Hello Mother, Hello Father

Greetings from summer sleep-away camp. Really, I write this tucked away in the woods in northeastern Pennsylvania – a tiny spot of heaven called Camp Happy Times – aptly named for a place where two hundred kids who have or have had cancer come for a week’s time of fun, fun, [...]