by Lily Forester | Sep 20, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 323 Go Ahead and Ask If you go to a hip-hop show, you might hear the MC tell the audience to “put their hands up”. Almost like magic, they go ahead and do it. People don’t need a lot of encouragement to do something that they already want to do – to be a...
by Lily Forester | Sep 16, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 321 One Good Thing Sometimes we can be tempted to start the day by picking up our phone and scrolling mindlessly through social media. That’s likely not going to set us on a path for hitting goals for the rest of the day. Starting the day with a good habit can...
by Lily Forester | Sep 15, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 320 Get Connected People experiencing depression can find themselves feeling more and more disconnected, from others, from their own feelings. In an extreme case, a person can look at a beautiful landscape, know intellectually that it is beautiful, and have no...
by Lily Forester | Sep 14, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 319 Harmonious Multivalence If we listen to certain notes or phrases of a powerful symphony, we might hear parts that seem very discordant, even offensive to the ears. Listening to the entire piece, we can put it into context and understand how those notes...
by Lily Forester | Sep 13, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 318 Write Your Heart In the “Science of Well-Being” course, Yale Professor Laurie Santos says that one of the most effective and long-lasting practices we can do for our happiness is to write letters of gratitude. This practice is so effective, it tends to...
by Lily Forester | Sep 9, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 316 The Way Out is Through Perhaps nobody has ever told you that the secret to happiness is understanding unhappiness. It sounds paradoxical, and it is almost always true. If we know our way through unhappy states, we can find our way back to being happy. Some...
