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Category Archives: Positive Psychology
More About THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
This book, utilizing case studies, personal insights from my own life, reader exercises and even poetry, allows the reader to explore positive aspects of herself. If she is a therapist, she also learns how to make long overdue corrections in the treatment room. Many readers, therapists, and lay people, wrote to me thanking me for […]
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Positive Psychologist, Discusses THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy
After I interviewed women outside of my practice, I realized that we do not reinforce, nor encourage the capacities for joy and pleasure that we really have. Often, the media further encourages a negative view of ourselves and our world. How could I begin to capture and teach others about the capacities for personal joy […]
OUR SOCIETY DOESN’T HELP US TO FEEL POSITIVE ENOUGH ABOUT OURSELVES, SAYS DR. BARBARA BECKER HOLSTEIN, POSITIVE PSYCOLOGIST
After doing case study research on women outside of my practice I became certain that women, and I am sure most men, have greater capacities to restore themselves and enjoy themselves, than previously documented. I also realized we are not given enough signals in our society to help us feel positive about ourselves, or to recognize […]
The Enchanted Aspects of a Woman’s Mind
A woman’s mind is like vibrational energy—it gets more energy or less, it works from one cognitive level or another, and it is surrounded by different tones and frequencies and feelings and smells and behaviors and dreams coming true! How wild. How wonderful that we find ourselves landing like fairies in a garden of people […]
Worrying about Financial Loss? Seven Pointers to Still Sleep at Night and Be Happy
Lots of people are worried in today’s economy. Some are faced with actual loss of jobs and/or houses, or retirements, while others are trembling about what might happen. None of this makes for restful sleep or an upbeat demeanor, nor feelings of hope and optimism, let alone feeling ‘happy’. So as a positive psychologist who […]
RECIPE FOR ENCHANTMENT – THE THREE Rs: Remembering the Best
In today’s world there are so many wonderful and inspirational books. There are books filled with stories of Divine intervention, miracles happening, special positive moments never to be forgotten and stories of incredible coincidences. They help make us feel in harmony with the universe. They help us fall asleep and have pleasant dreams. They often […]
Nancy Drew and THE TRUTH, (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything!
Me and My Best Friend Nancy Drew! I’m remembering some special times I had with a best friend, Nancy, when I was growing up. Oh, they were wonderful adventures that we took together-just Nancy and myself. And when it came to an end I had a let down that could only be compensated for in […]