The Flourishing Center

Flourishing Friday (FF) Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life. In this episode Emiliya addresses a question submitted by one of our Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) students about how affirmations work. Affirmations are positive statements that individuals repeat to themselves to rewire their thought patterns and beliefs and that ultimately lead to behavior change. Listen to this episode as Emiliya tackles how affirmations work and the role of attention bias in their effectiveness. This episode is sponsored by Lift, our daily behavioral mastery program using the science of happiness. Sign up now and choose from live classes every weekday!

Coach's Corner (CC) - Welcome to the Coach's Corner, where you get to witness Positive Psychology-based coaching with master-level certified coaching. Discover positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF. In this episode Emiliya coaches Sara, a non-profit CEO who is about to embark on her own journey into a private practice of coaching and consulting. As Sara enters the liminal space between an ending and a new beginning, she wants to offer herself space to reflect and decompress, something she's never had in the past as a busy executive. Emilya coaches her through identifying where she's at and what she needs, patience, in order to find balance during this liminal time. This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Applied Positive Psychology Coaching (APPC) Certification. For full show notes visit the website: https://theflourishingcenter.com/

Welcome to Real-time Resilience (RR), where we share the journeys of real people being resilient in real time. Tune in to discover and learn skills to help you recover better from any challenge. Listen to bounce back stories that are sure to inspire and encourage you through any struggle. In this episode, Emiliya speaks with Laurie, a mother and positive psychology change agent who shares how she used real-time resilience to get her through a parent's worst nightmare, supporting her family during the aftermath of her son's mountain biking accident. Laurie found that staying in the present moment, choosing her mindset and other resilience skills were the keys to managing the crisis. This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Bounce Back Better (B3)® Resilience Trainer Certification. For full show notes visit the website. https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

Coaches Corner (CC) - Welcome to the Coaches Corner, where you get to witness Positive Psychology-based coaching with master-level certified coaching. Discover positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF. Listen in on this session with Emiliya as she uses the positive psychology coaching model to help her client Zoe build a sense of security and trust in herself as she navigates potentially reconciling an important relationship. Together, Emiliya and Zoe look at the transition Zoe is facing in her career, as she moves from an internal role to returning to private coaching practice. Then they dig into the deeper layers of what is affecting Zoe, her experience of the loss of a child and the possibility of rebuilding the relationship with her partner after a period of separation. This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Applied Positive Psychology Coaching (APPC) Certification. For full show notes visit the website. https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

In this Positive Psychology Practitioner Profile Emiliya speaks with Salina Iavarone, a life coach, speaker and co-host of the Live Your Freakin Life Podcast. After leaving her career at her church of 20+ years, Salina discovered positive psychology, and with it, the ability to listen to her body and trust in herself. She now uses her practitioner training to work with people who are undergoing the tumultuous process of leaving or gaining a new perspective on their religious faith. Find the full show notes at https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/ This episode is sponsored by the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) Program. Celebrating its 10 year anniversary, with over 1700 practitioners in 55 countries, CAPP is the world's premier practitioner training in positive psychology. Discover more about CAPP at https://theflourishingcenter.com/capp.

EPISODE 88: Business With Conviction and Accomplishment- Coaches Corner Coaches Corner (CC) - Welcome to the Coaches Corner, where you get to witness Positive Psychology-based coaching with master-level certified coaching. Discover to positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF. Listen in on this session with Emiliya as she uses the positive psychology coaching model to help her client Jen to navigate discovery of conviction and accomplishment in her recently launched business. In this episode, Emiliya coaches Jen, a consultant who recently left her employment of 22 years to launch her own business. Together Emiliya and Jen work through growing, learning, and processing the emotions that come up freeing Jen to break through, get energized, recognize her existing strengths and successes, and move her forward towards the next phase of her career. This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Applied Positive Psychology Coaching (APPC) Certification. For full show notes visit the website. https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

In this Science Says episode Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder of The Flourishing Center, shares what The Flourishing Center has been up to for the past year. She also dives into the opportunities brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic for pause and pivot and shares a recently published study on how positive psychology has played a role in helping people cope with Covid. Plus 9 strategies that can help you rebuild now! During the pandemic The Flourishing Center created programs and training to help people use positive psychology to cope with the challenges. Check out the Lift Program, a joyful journey of daily positive psychology practice.

EPISODE 84 STRENGTH SPOTTING AND ACTS OF KINDNESS: Flourishing Friday Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life. Today's podcast is about how you can take two research-based interventions for improving your well-being and combine them into one. Performing an act of kindness and spotting strengths Research shows that performing acts of kindness for others boosts the giver's well-being as much as it promotes the recipient's well-being, if not more. Sometimes, the mere thought of performing an act of kindness is enough to boost our happiness and well-being by giving us a dose of positivity. The reason being is that for most of us, when we imagine ourselves doing something, our brain and body respond as though we're doing it, and imagining doing it, we put ourselves in the shoes of the person about to receive it. The second intervention is about noticing strengths. One of the pillars of positive psychology is taking a strengths approach. We're not just trying to shore up weaknesses - we want to recognize and build the positive. For the full show notes visit our website. https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

EPISODE 82: CRISITUNITY-TURN CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY: Flourishing Friday Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life. Shout out to Dan Trommater CAPPster from Canada in our recent Better Than Before COVID 19 programs. We were talking about how to turn obstacles and crisis into gifts or opportunities. He said, in typical animated Dan fashion, You mean, a crisitunity! I thought he was friggin brilliant, then he told me it wasn't his, it was Homer! It turns out in a Simpsons episode, and daughter, Lisa Simpson, says, "dad, did you know that the Chinese have the same word for crisis as they do opportunity?" And homer exclaims, "Crisitunity!" The word they're referring to is both a Chinese and a Japanese word called Kiki. It's made up of two characters. The first symbol represents dangerous, while the second one means opportunity: Aka, a crisitunity. Yes, a crisis may be scary, it may be dangerous, but it also forces the chance for change, and with that chance, a doorway to opportunity. This, of course, with the pandemic, is on the minds of many of the people that I work with and corporations that I support. People are asking how do we pivot? How do we become resilient? Since the pandemic started, I've been running a low-cost online program called Better Than Before COVID-19. We've had over 1,500 people go through the program in the past nine months, all united around a shared vision of learning positive psychology skills to be better after the pandemic than you were going into it. That's why I'm in love with the word crisitunity. A mindset shift that the moments of crisis can be a gift can be an opportunity. It makes me think of the first principle of Anusara yoga, a yoga style that I used to teach. The first principle is "open to grace. Accept the past - check out last week's Flourishing Friday episode on psychic masochism and how to stop beating up on yourself about the past. Ask yourself - how can I learn from this? How can I grow? How can I view this as a contrast? Meaning what I'm experiencing is what I don't want. How can I use this to create something I do want? Asking yourself, what are my options? What can I do? All these things get us out of problem focus into solution focus. Food for thought. What crisis have you turned into an opportunity?

EPISODE 80: SHOULDA WOULDA COULDA- STOP PSYCHIC MASOCHISM: Flourishing Friday Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life. This week Emiliya worked with a coaching client who came to her because he wanted more happiness and positivity in his life. His wife, the love of his life and high school sweetheart died of a brain aneurysm 5 years ago. COVID has led to a lot of alone time and a lot of time to ruminate on what could have should have and would have. She calls this self-talk: psychic masochism. It hurts to say these things to ourselves, yet it's like wiggling a loose tooth, it hurts, but it feels good. Emililya shares how she thinks there's an evolutionary role in why we beat ourselves up over the past. Most of the time, we're facing something that was entirely out of our control. Autonomy and having a locus of control are highly coveted human needs, but it's rarely something we truly have. And when it comes to the past… we have no control over changing the past. The only control we have is what we do with it in the future. When you imagine the should have, could have, would have… you imagine a different past… you're imagining yourself actually having control. For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer, visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com

EPISODE 78: HOW TO GRIEVE- The Science of Coping: Flourishing Friday Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish. In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life. Emiliya provides thoughtful words to strengthen, inspire, and comfort those who have suffered the loss of a loved one in this episode. If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to being fully human. When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable—especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, "NO!" with every part of our body. Emiliya offers science and personal experience-backed support to help guide you through the process of learning how to grieve. For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer, visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com

THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF PIXAR'S SOUL: Flourishing Friday Flourishing Friday (FF)-Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you to flourish. In these episodes we look at real life application of Positive Psychology, while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life. This episode was inspired by the Pixar's Movie, Soul. In this episode your will discover three really powerful positive psychology lessons that you can take away from the Pixar's movie Soul. We look at how you can use the information in you life. Emiliya walks you through concepts such as: -Learning how to savour. -Discovering how to differential between purpose and passion. -Identifying how to get more flow in your life. Listen In to discover more! For full show notes & more information on what we have to offer, visit The Flourishing Center at: www.theflourishingcenter.com SHOW LINK:

EPISODE 72: POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH IN PRACTICE Practitioner Profiler (PP)- Welcome to our Positive Psychology Practitioner Profiler where we highlight ordinary people that are doing extra ordinary things! Each practitioner is one of our graduates of the CertifIcate in Positive Psychology Program. Find out the exciting ways people are putting the science into practice within their Communities, Organizations and Lives. In this episode, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya CEO & Founder, The Flourishing Center highlights Dr. Shenell Evans. Dr. Shenell is a Brooklyn-based clinical psychologist who specializes in creating sacred, evidence-based space for adults, particularly those living with chronic health conditions and the accompanying biopsychosocial-spiritual byproducts. Grow after trauma using post traumatic growth. Listen in how beautifully Dr. Shenell Evans defines Post traumatic growth. Regardless of where people fall on the illness—wellness continuum, chronic conditions evoke many issues: sense of grief/loss, sadness, anxiety, anger/frustration, physical/functional limitations, strained relationships, insurance dilemmas, treatment decisions, and, at times, treatment fatigue. For people who wish to reclaim their time will need support as they grieve, regroup, and recreate their lives in order to foster life satisfaction and meaning DESPITE CHRONIC ILLNESS. Dr. Shenell Evans infuses positive psychology into her practice. Her training in Applied positive psychology allows her to emphasize the sense of thriving and flourishing. She helps her clients tap into the values to help them pull themselves forward. She helps get people back to base line and then she draws from positive psychology to help with patient care. She emphasizes optimizing our human experience. She taps into the wealth of knowledge to tap into positive neuro-science to help establish habit and routine. She wants to show up as authentically for her patients, for herself, for her family. She emphasizes showing up the best we can to optimize our human experience. You can reach Dr. Shenell Evans at: https://www.drshenell.com For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer: visit The Flourishing Center at: www.theflourishingcenter.com Show Link: