Using Positive Psychology Every Day
Learning How to Flourish

We are all looking to flourish, to experience joy, feel engaged with the world, and experience meaningful lives. But the stresses and strains of our daily lives makes this a challenge. Using Positive Psychology Every Day: Learning How to Flourish is about (re)finding the art of living, enabling you to flourish.

Bringing together the best of positive psychology, this book introduces eight evidence-based resources of well-being and flourishing: positive emotions, the discovering and use of strengths, optimism, compassion, post-traumatic growth, positive relationships and spirituality. Each chapter has a concise, simple theoretical introduction and several evidence-based, easy-to-apply exercises.

This book is for anyone experiencing stress, distress or lower well-being, as well as coaches and therapists who can use the book for clients in the context of guided self-help.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. High time for joy
2. Enjoy your talent
3. Lose yourself
4. Optimists are full of it!
5. Have a break
6. I am not who I once was
7. Sharing your positive life
8. Beyond the self
9. Conclusion: a positive life as the art of living

Ernst Bohlmeijer is a professor in mental health promotion at the University of Twente. He has a special interest developing and evaluating interventions based on positive psychology, acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion-based approaches.

Monique Hulsbergen has been a psychotherapist for 18 years. She currently works as a trainer in compassion, mindfulness and well-being and is author of various self-help books.