A Mental Health Prescription for coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic 1) Take two 5-10 minute doses of Lovingkindness Meditation (LKM) in the am and in the pm. Lovingkindness meditation has been shown to help us recover from cardiac reactivity produced by stress. It has also been shown to increase oxytocin (sometimes called the love hormone) which suppresses inflammation and reduces depression and hypertension. It also helps us experience social connectedness

Using MOMs, POPs, and PIPs to Overcome Pandemic Fatigue, Burnout, PTSD, and Languishing 1 comment Well-being isn’t just about positive emotions. It also includes fully feeling our negative emotions and the changes in our mental state, and accepting them as a normal reaction to life’s circumstances. Harvard psychologist Susan David calls this emotional agility—recognizing that all emotions are relevant, and that negative emotions are a normal part of life. We cannot experience

Having practiced Positive Psychology for around the last 15 years I have come to see that our emotions, like plants, can grow and thrive....

A caregiver’s story. “I am a caregiver, my experience is unique and yet it is also universal. I vacillate between despair and anger. These persistent negative emotions are a relatively new pattern for me. I feel jealous, I feel resentful, I feel bitter, I feel frustrated, I feel numb, I feel detached, I feel like I want to escape, I feel paralyzed, I feel sad, I feel ambivalence, obligation, a sense of duty, and also a moral sense that this is the right thing to do. And, I f

There is an unheralded importance to the MOM’s, POP’s and PIPs of our life. This sounds like giving homage to the importance of mothers, fathers and little ones as part of a well lived life, and, I do applaud them, but I am talking about the moms, pops and pips of positive psychology. I am referring to the strategy of inducing moments of meaning and purpose (MOMs) and pockets of positivity (POPs) to increase well-being. Using these strategies also builds resources that se