
I invite you to write down your thoughts and feelings as we progress through the videos. This is an exploration of our inner selves but always going gently and not being critical. We are building each other up not down. It will become a notebook of your positives and thoughts that can help you in times of needs. The only caveat is to be kind to yourself............... enjoy xx
Embrace the belief that you are enough, just as you are, and let self-acceptance transform your life by aligning your inner state with outward wellbeing.
Practice loving-kindness meditation, a Buddhist practice, to hold yourself with kindness and cultivate self-compassion. Embrace silence, forgive yourself, listen to your inner voice, and welcome change as living.
Discover how the kintsugi metaphor repairs a shattered bowl with mud and gold, inviting gentle self-kindness and embracing the gold within us despite our flaws.
Explore the types of love and build a personal map including nature, family, and friends. Grow and connect your love list over days.
Focus on present positives and savor small moments, like a coffee and an Easter egg, in line with positive psychology, to cultivate gratitude, resilience, and better sleep.
Explore the five love languages and how we demonstrate love to ourselves and others, including gifts, time, and service, and discuss how these expressions affect relationships.
Develop body confidence by focusing on how you feel, using two-minute power poses and smiling, and loving your body as you listen to its needs and exercise.
Don't dull your sparkle for anyone - Speak nicely to yourself at all times. Be compassionate to yourself. Be Respectful to the person in the mirror.
Explore how patience guides the power of words to heal rather than hurt, emphasizing responsible communication, mindful intention, and using wisdom from books to nurture yourself and others.
Establish a daily routine to support mental health and reduce anxiety in unpredictable times. Add exercise, reading, and creativity to bring daily structure and clarity.
Cultivate your world by growing seeds—tomato, lettuce, pumpkin, and pea—in pots on a windowsill to reduce loneliness and reap dividends in three months.
Label your emotions with a Pixar-inspired approach that gives each feeling a voice. Confront worries by writing down worst-case scenarios and seeking support.
Discover how to transform home spaces into personal havens by decluttering and displaying treasures, including love letters, to nurture happiness at home and within yourself.
Discover how small surprises can break sleepwalking routines, spark connection, and boost well-being through deliberate, safe experiments like trying new foods, conversations, or routines.
practice active listening with empathy for yourself and others, staying nonjudgmental and bias-free to truly hear. identify and share your natural strengths to grow, lead, and support the community.
Dear Friends, I have included a daily video using a new 'key' word each day, to help you think about flourishing within your life, what is important to you and the reasons why. Taking a few moments out for yourself each day armed with a notebook and pen, to scribble down your learnings and thoughts. Designing your life so that you may step into becoming your own best friend, treating yourself with respect and above all dignity. A few precious moments to listen to your inner voice, become calm and still.
Learning to love yourself is the first ripple into real authentic happiness and self acceptance. In a world where everything is so face paced, you will have the opportunity to experience genuine empathy and caring support, as you find your own personal strengths, gain resilience and growth in quick bite-size positive psychology sessions.
Positive Psychology is deep and meaningful and enables people to look into their inner selves and acknowledges their weaknesses and celebrates their strengths without bias and enables us to challenge our perceptions. It is an integration of both sides of our personalities allowing personal freedom to being our authentic selves. Positive Psychology asks the question, ‘why do some people languish, and fail to thrive while others flourish becoming fully alive’? ‘Can we learn from those that flourish’? Take some time in each day so that you teach yourself to flourish - you are important.
It is not always succeeding but how we cope with failure, Positive Psychology asks ‘What’s right with your life’? By finding and acknowledging our strengths we can learn to thrive and flourish despite or because of challenging times. As our muscles become stronger via stressing through exercise, so can our skills of flourishing by using the tools of self-knowledge and positive psychology. B Siegel calls them ‘live messages’ that travel to our brains and throughout our bodies, we can look at challenging our inherent negative bias and look at focusing on our strengths.
Look within to reach out and become happier, it always starts with you.
(please note this course was written during covid and has references to this time period )