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Finding Happiness and Resiliency

Finding happiness and resiliency is about having balance across three areas in your life: community & connection; health & wellbeing; and meaning & purpose.

How to change your mindset with this simple Best Possible Self exercise

20/01/2022 by Marie

Best Possible Self Exercise

The Best Possible Self activity is a quick and simple exercise that can have profound impacts on your happiness.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: BestPossibleSelf, flow, happiness, inspiration, mentalhealth, Optimism

Top Positive Psychology Research in 2021

13/01/2022 by Marie

Top Positive Psychology Research in 2021

In what was a tough year all around, there was still plenty of hope and great research into how to live a full and happy life.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: happiness, meaning, mentalhealth, mindfulness, purpose, resilience

Happiness Ted Talks to Watch These Holidays

15/12/2021 by Marie

Start 2022 with a Positive and Happy new outlook

If you want to start 2022 with a positive and happy new outlook, these are the top happiness Ted Talks to watch these holidays.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: happiness, mentalhealth, positivity, wellbeing

How to Avoid ‘Toxic Positivity’ and Take the Less Direct Route to Happiness

08/12/2021 by Marie

How to Avoid Toxic Positivity

Happier people tend to live longer, be healthier and enjoy more successful lives but pursued in certain ways positivity can become toxic.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: happiness, mentalhealth, ToxicPositivity

Volunteering and Happiness: Why Volunteering is The Superfood of The Positive Psychology Movement

01/12/2021 by Marie

With volunteering it’s almost impossible not to feel good!

Crack the code for happiness by volunteering your time and services for others. With volunteering it’s almost impossible not to feel good!

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: connection, happiness, mentalhealth, physicalhealth, volunteering

How To Live a Happy Life – The Harvard Study That Started it All

24/11/2021 by Marie

How to Live a Happy Life

Find out what lessons have we learned about happiness and wellbeing from the world’s longest study of adult life.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: GoodLife, happiness, mental health, resilience, wellbeing

How to Live a Psychologically Rich Life

17/11/2021 by Marie

How to Live a Psychologically Rich Life

Is a good and fulfilling life more than happiness and meaning? Find out how to live a psychologically rich life instead.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: Fulfilled, happiness, mentalhealth, PsychologicallyRich, resilience

Coronavirus: Tiny Moments of Pleasure Really can Help us Through this Stressful Time

10/11/2021 by Marie

Moments of Pleasure Really can Help us Through this Stressful Time

Whatever you think about the pandemic, the economy, or your compatriots, a part of you knows you could do with a bit of pleasure right now.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: FindTheFun, happiness, mentalhealth, MomentsOfPleasure, Pleasure

Are You Suffering from Covid Burnout?

03/11/2021 by Marie

Are You Suffering from Covid Burnout

Are you starting to struggle, lose focus or energy? Feeling meh? Say no to Covid burnout! Here’s what you can do about it.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: anxiety, CovidBurnout, Exhaustion, Flourishing, Languishing

11 Studies That Show Taking a Walk Will Make You Happier

27/10/2021 by Marie

Taking a walk will make you happier

It’s easy to forget how the little things – like taking a walk – can have such a huge impact on our mental health and make us happier.

Filed Under: Finding Happiness & Resiliency Tagged With: happiness, mentalhealth, nature, TakeAWalk

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Hi. I’m Marie, an Aussie writer, speaker, and podcaster. I am a mental wellbeing advocate and am passionate about helping people to find resilience and happiness in the midst of change.

You see, a couple of years ago, I came off my motorbike in Vietnam and in a split second, everything changed. You can read my story, or take a look through this site which chronicles my research and thoughts as I explore what really makes us happy and resilient.

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