81. Annemarie Brogan: Practitioner Profile

02/10/21 • 40 min

EPISODE 81: Annemarie Brogan- Practitioner Profile

Practitioner Profiler (PP)- Welcome to our Positive Psychology Practitioner Profiler, where we highlight ordinary people doing extraordinary things! Each practitioner is one of our graduates of the Certificate in Positive Psychology Program. Please 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 Annmarie Brogan, professional organizer, certified life coach and resilience trainer.

As an Applied Positive Psychology Practitioner, she brings the science and evidence-based resources of positive psychology to her work as a professional organizer, certified life coach and resilience trainer. But before all that, I worked in Corporate America.

She is the co-author of Beyond Tidy: Declutter Your Mind and Discover the Magic of Organized Living, from Skyhorse Publishing, merges her top 8 organizing principles with the science of positive psychology. Each principle saves you time, money, space and energy, giving you more to spend on family and activities you love!

Listen in and discover how Annmarie is integrating Positive Psychology into her life.

You can reach Annmarie Brogan at

https://organizemeny.com

www.annmariebrogan.com.

For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer:

visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com

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EPISODE 81: Annemarie Brogan- Practitioner Profile

In this episode, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder, The Flourishing Center, highlights Annmarie Brogan, professional organizer, certified life coach and resilience trainer.

Listen in and discover how Annmarie is integrating Positive Psychology into her life.

You can reach Annmarie Brogan at

https://organizemeny.com

www.annmariebrogan.com.

For Full show notes & more information on what we have to offer:

visit The Flourishing Center at www.theflourishingcenter.com

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80. SHOULDA WOULDA COULDA- STOP PSYCHIC MASOCHISM: Flourishing Friday

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

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82. CRISITUNITY: Flourishing Friday

EPISODE 82: CRISITUNITY-TURN CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY: Flourishing Friday

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?