More days than not, I experience low mood, excessive worry and difficult intrusive thoughts. My illness (some kind of combo of anxiety & ...

A few days ago I was doubting that I had the words to express what reaching 365 days alcohol free (AF) meant to me. It has been such a pe...

Some stuff that has helped me start and continue my sober lifestyle. Books Memoirs The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober - Catherine Gray Bla...

Yesterday I put together a kind of psychological first aid kit (pictured below) on the advice of my therapist. Partly because I can now s...

Overall, practicing optimism was a good positive activity for me to increase my well-being (rising from feeling neutral to ‘slightly sati...

This is a continuation of my previous post on my assignment to investigate the practice of optimism. As I continued with my positive jour...

Today I am planning on applying some of the techniques I have read about in Sarah Knight's seminal book 'The Life Changing Magic of Not G...

This morning I would like to convince you of a concept that you may feel strange from a woman who professes to follow flamingos (wherever...

One of the best self-help books I have ever read is Susan Jeffers' "Feel the Fear...and Do it Anyway". I thoroughly recommend this book a...

A quick update on one of my Positive Psychology assignments, before I bury myself once more in the literature! I am getting so much out o...

Earlier this year I read a great book about writing as therapy. Let it Out by Katie Dalebout is about the benefits of journaling, keeping...

Are you an optimist or the other one? As they say "Glass half full, or half empty?". I am firmly on the dark side when it comes to thinki...