I wanted to thank you for the wonderful postcards you created and printed out from the “Legacy to Flourishing Future” project and shared on the tables at the MAPP Gala. I scooped up a stack of your postcards, and as you can see from the photo, I wrote and mailed a bunch of them! The […]
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Happiness isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s the quiet moment when the sun touches your skin and you remember who you are.
Where light finds me. Read More »
I snapped this photo on my iPhone about 1 hour after my Mom passed last Saturday. Leaving her bedside and heading outside with James he pointed up to the sky and told me to look up. We both felt that this was a gift from my Mom: her beautiful soul. While I was heartbroken of
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Gramma GG (as she is known by the entire town) is a walking positive intervention & the absolute light of my life. Her zest for life & love for others is absolutely contagious. She is everyone’s number 1 fan, and it is a complete honor to be her granddaughter. Whether tearing up the dance floor
Even in the worst of times, there is happiness to be seen if you lean into the simple pleasures of life. (Go Bruins!)
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This image captures how MAPP opened a new horizon for me. Standing inside the stone walls, I see what was a life shaped by prior roles and expectations and through the opening, I see what MAPP revealed: possibility, purpose, and a future I have agency in creating. The wet, uneven ground reminds me that the
In 2022, my younger daughter, Ariela, created one of the greatest birthday gifts for me: a photo collage that captures our family in moments of joy, happiness, and celebration. Since that birthday, Ariela’s collage has prominently sat facing me on my desk, reminding me of the gratitude I have for her and my entire family.
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“Raising children…is vastly more than fixing what is wrong with them. It is about identifying and nurturing their strongest qualities, what they own and are best at, and helping them find niches in which they can best live out these strengths.” (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000, p. 6)
I built a life brick by brick, the one I was told to build career, family, success a house that never felt like home. I gave until I vanished, over functioned to be worthy, mistaking effort for love, and still the ground whispered, look up. But the world waited patient as trees, rooted in their
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It’s been five years since I finished my capstone, and I feel two things simultaneously: 1) that I have done absolutely nothing to infuse positive psychology into the world and 2) that everything I have done and continue to do is rooted in positive psychology because there’s no way for it not to be. It
My experience at MAPP has shaped so much of the work I do on a daily basis. Beyond my work, when I think about the enduring impacts of my degree – I immediately think about my family. Learning the science of strengths has shifted my perspectives as a parent, wife, and mother. I more intentionally
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These two under two are my inspiration to spread joy to each person and place I’m fortunate to encounter so that together we make the world a better place. They also remind me to appreciate each season, live in the moment, and learn something new each day.
Since I started MAAP this fall I’ve been trying to share with my daughter everything I’m learning about positive psychology. She’s about to turn 4. As soon as I was back from Immersion Week, I got her a red cape and a green cape and explained to her that when she wears the red cape,
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Under the Montana sky, I’m reminded of what Marty set in motion twenty years ago—a way of seeing human potential not as theory but as daily practice. His work has shaped how I help students navigate uncertainty and imagine purposeful futures as they consider their educational path and place in the world. In the photo,
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My greatest challenge as a MAPPster became my greatest gift to offer others. Inspired by Positive Psychology and because of my own struggles at MAPP, I began to examine a positive approach to adult ADHD — and it became my capstone topic. I now coach ADHDers with a strength-based approach. Positive Psychology is for everyone
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MAPP gave me the parenting skills to raise a self assured, kind, humble, fearless citizen of the world.
Captured here is the moment before immersion; that still breath before surrendering to the cold. The plunge has become a living metaphor for my MAPP journey: the descent into discomfort, the awakening of agency, and resurfacing renewed. It also mirrors the work of my capstone, where I propose somatic practices to be more than just
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Ever since I graduated from MAPP in 2006, I have helped other MAPPsters express themselves in writing, whether in online articles at Positive Psychology News, Psychology Today, or LinkedIn, academic papers, or books. Another MAPPster calls me the midwife of words. I am not really sure how many books I’ve helped deliver, but here are
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Since 2005, I’ve lived the science of happiness — not as a destination, but as a garden tended with purpose. The historic WEHVFUN Victorian resort in Rehoboth Beach has become my living laboratory of Positive Psychology since 2021 — a place where laughter is the common language, gratitude is practiced, and joy is cultivated as
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Thank you MAPP for the wonderful opportunities for growth, learning, connection, and meaning. Since returning to my duties as a full-time lecturer at my university, I’ve been astounded by the ripples and resonance of positivity sharing positive psychology has had for my community here in Malaysia. Here is a session we ran on character strengths
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This photo was taken the day my two sons and husband (he was taking the picture) came to see the new office where I would begin offering in-person therapy and coaching sessions. It’s not just a physical space—it’s the embodiment of the clarity, courage, and commitment that MAPP helped me build. MAPP has continue to
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This photo captures the newest graduating class of Elevating Leaders, a program my company, Tangible Group, has designed and taught at the corporate executive level for nearly two decades. Our curriculum is rooted in positive organizational resilience and well-being, shaped by what MAPP and the MAPP community has taught me. I have the joy of
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A collection of 24 children’s books based on VIA character strengths. Interweaving Seligman and Suess, these stories engage children (and all those around them, family teachers, advocates, guardian, etc.) to develop strengths so we can live our best lives. With reflection questions, vocabulary words, and movie and book suggestions to help embody the strengths, character
Reflection for MAP 20th Anniversary Submission Through the lens of Flourishing in Adoption, I see the intersection of my life’s purpose and the science of positive psychology. My journey in the MAPP program has deepened my belief that every story within the adoption constellation—adoptee, birth parent, and adoptive parent—holds the capacity for growth, resilience, and
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