The Positive Mind

Everything and everyone changes. What is revealed when the green leaves of summer turn so many varied colors? Each tree, each leaf, has specific traits to it. What if love's essence is an ability to see through the personality of our partner, to what is a completely unique constellation of traits that make them who they are. Kevin and Niseema explore the concept that it is this essence that delights us and makes us fall in love. Join us this week as we help you identify the traits of your partner that hint at their essence, and to also reflect on what they might see in you.

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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: [email protected], or call 212-757-4488.

You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.

These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.

Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.

Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema

www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy

Break Music: "This Nearly was Mine." Performed by: Frank Sinatra. Written by: Oscar Hammerstien II, Richard Rodgers. Source: FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE

End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology

The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:

Engineering: Geoff Brady

Producer: Connie Shannon

Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello

Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, [email protected]

The feeling of home is as universal as it is personal. Home can be a place of safety and refuge, or chaos and instability. No matter which, home is the place you identify with in some way, it carries meaning, memories and shapes your identity.

Homesickness is a powerful feeling that something just isn't right, coupled with a longing for things to be stable, predictable, familiar and safe. But, it is a fact of life that everybody has to leave home; how a person manages that stress can say a lot about their relationship with themselves and their ability to take a sense of "home" with them wherever they go.

Kevin and Niseema talk about how homesickness can lead to depression, a sense of being lost, rootless and adrift. It's the mysterious and universal feeling of home that seems to root us in our very being, providing a shelter for those days and times when all seems lost.

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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: [email protected], or call 212-757-4488.

You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.

These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.

Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.

Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema

www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax

Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady

End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology

The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:

Engineering: Geoff Brady

Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon

Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello

Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, [email protected]

In the second part of a 2 part series, hosts Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer discuss Learned Optimism. This episode covers information based on Martin Seligman's book Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. Hosts highlight useful techniques that help stop depreciating and self-defeating thoughts, moving you toward developing your full potential and durable happiness in this time of COVID and beyond.

For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at [email protected], or call 212-757-4488.

These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.

Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.

Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax

End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology

The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:

Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon

Engineering: Geoff Brady

Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello

Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, [email protected]

Kevin and Niseema discuss the effects of cognitive dissonance on human psychology in the context of conflicting information related to treatments and guidelines during the pandemic. Hosts talk about examples of early childhood cognitive dissonance and how that applies to the larger more politically based episodes. Ideas for compassionate treatment and ways to process through self awareness.

For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at [email protected], or call 212-757-4488.

These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.

Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.

Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax

End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology

The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:

Engineering: Geoff Brady

Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon

Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello

Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, [email protected]

Have you taken your emotional temperature lately? Are you finding spikes of anger or settling into a continuous state of feeling a "little of something" or nothing at all? Does it take you back to a time as a child when anger, frustration, sadness or fear were not allowed or dismissed?

As we start to look back at lifestyle changes and social upheavals from the last 6 months, we can see how we are operating at about 50% of our emotional level. It just seems to be the easiest place to be: flatten the curve, flatten the feelings.

Join Kevin and Niseema as guides to understanding why we blunt our inner selves and how to recharge our emotional engines this week on The Positive Mind Radio Show Podcast.

For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at [email protected], or call 212-757-4488.

These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.

Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.

Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax

End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology

The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:

Engineering: Geoff Brady

Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon

Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello

Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, [email protected]