“When you fall in love with yourself, you begin to feel the positive self-esteem that comes when we don’t deflate ourselves. “You’re ready to take yourself out for tea or to that wonderful spa for a day, or to go back and play the piano, which you always wanted to do. You’re ready to recognize […]
Category Archives: Happiness
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, discusses her positive psychology approach, THE ENCHANTED SELF and a great new book in positive psychology, WOMEN’S PATHS TO HAPPINESS, in which she is one of the authors.
As the years have passed and I have become increasingly convinced that happiness is not an option. When you take away joy we immediately find ourselves in circumstances that seem to drain tire and weaken us. I developed The Enchanted Self as a positive psychology approach to work in the treatment room and outside of […]
REMEMBERING OUR FUN MEMORIES FROM CHILDHOOD
Katherine’s Memory – Playing Elevator in the Closet Katherine remarked: “My sister and I had so much fun when we were children. The two of us would play, “Elevator” for hours. It was a simple game that went this way: one of us would pretend to be the elevator operator. She would open the closet […]
DR. BARBARA BECKER HOLSTEIN SHARES HOW OUR MOODS AND REACTIONS AFFECT EACH OTHER
We may be in a wonderful mood only to enter the workplace or home and be met by a scowl, a frown, or negative remark from a coworker or family member. How quickly one’s positive state of well being can dissipate. For example, if I walk into the house in a good mood and my […]
Blessings Make The World Go Round! Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Positive Psychologist comments.
Hi Ladies, I hope you are having a beautiful day today. Don’t we all need to! Do you feel better when someone has blessed you? I sure to. It makes me feel cared about in a special way when I know someone has blessed me. I’d like to know how you feel about blessings? Did […]
The Wise Older Woman
Recently, I attended a beautiful wedding. A young Jewish couple came together in joy and the room was filled with happiness. Outside of the banquet room I noticed a group of older women sitting near the door collecting charity. They all looked very pure and plain at the same time, young seniors and older seniors, […]
Real Women Having Fun – It’s The Truth!
Here is a great picture of real women having a blast. We all have that girl inside of ourselves just waiting to come out and play. And we need to let her out! Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
Gateway Three: Learning to Meet Our Needs and Negotiate Successfully
It is never to late to look at the Seven Gateways to Happiness again and again, as women. Let’s look again at Gateway Three. There’s nothing more demoralizing than a woman who does not know how to speak up for herself, who doesn’t have a voice for herself. When we feel ignored or not understood, […]
We all need to take Vacations, at least vacations of the Mind!
Recently, in a women’s therapy group that I run, the desire for fun and a change of pace over took me. I suggested that we deviate from some of our typical work and instead go around the room imagining a vacation treat designed to suit each woman’s desires. It was fascinating to see how many […]
Dr. Holstein talks about The Enchanted Self, when women are happy, what damages them and how they can reconstruct themselves.
When I did my research with women, I discovered that, indeed, women have a great capacity for happiness and pleasure.Yes, we are born with it, we have that capacity.And the women I interviewed, all of them verified that in some way they had a way of accessing happiness, states of well-being, feeling good.They all did.Whether […]