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“5 Ways to Infuse Positivity Into Your Child’s Day”

ADDitude

with these feel-good, strengths-focused tips informed by the principles of positive psychology. Use dinnertime as an opportunity to focus on everything that went well that day and how your childs efforts contributed to positivity. What often gets forgotten or overlooked, though, is building awareness of their strengths.

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Manifest Culture: Self-Empowerment or Mental Health Misdirection?

Zencare

It often overlaps with spirituality, self-help, and lifestyle content, all served up in aesthetic packages by influencers. Affirmations shift self-talk : Saying things like Im capable or Im growing can help quiet the inner critic. Then we bring awareness into action. I'm growing" is a great validation! And thats powerful.

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The Psychology Behind Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory and Happiness

Solara Mental Health

People, such as athletes, who experience flow regularly are more likely to develop positive traits, including higher self-esteem, better concentration, and general performance. And, this seems to be correlated with the growing body of evidence that flow improves ones subjective well-being and psychological well-being.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

Every so often, someone would bring up an issue related to psychology and turn to me. You have a self-esteem scaleif I score a 10 and you score an 8, does that mean I have more self-esteem than you? One of the books we read together was Charles Taylors Sources of the Self , which is a landmark in hermeneutic thought.