These videos are available to anyone who is interested. They can also be "prescribed" by health professionals to patients. After watching the video, you are prompted to choose an activity that you are ready to do. You will receive a reminder email with steps to complete an action plan for that activity.
The Happiness Benefits of Healthy Cooking
In this video we take a look at how healthy cooking is linked to positive psychology for both emotional and physical wellbeing.
Mindfulness and other positive activities for healthy eating
Learn how mindfulness and other positive activities can propel you towards healthy eating.
PERMA and Healthy Eating
How can the five elements of PERMA – positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement be harnessed to help us with our healthy habits? Learn specific tips for using PERMA to support healthy eating.
Why do happy people live longer
Uncover what science shows about why happy people tend to live longer. What are the biological mechanisms that link our emotional and physical health and wellbeing and what does this mean for you?
Self-compassion and Healthy Eating:
As we face challenges in making changes in our healthy habits, we can benefit by practicing self-compassion. What are ways we can embrace self-compassion for healthy eating?
Appreciative Inquiry for Healthy Eating
Embrace the four parts of appreciative inquiry that can support healthy eating – Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny. During appreciative inquiry, we ask positive questions to forge a path forward toward our goals. This video shows how we can nudge ourselves towards healthy eating with appreciative inquiry.
Positive Health for Persons with Heart Disease
Do you have heart disease? The good news is that persons with heart disease can achieve positive health. Learn from Dr. Liana Lianov how to use positive psychology with healthy habits to thrive. Engaging in positive psychology activities not only helps your emotional and mental wellbeing, but also your physical health.
Find Positive Health When You Have a Chronic Illness
Learn about the two continua of health: 1. the illness continuum that moves us from physical and mental illness to physical and mental health, and 2. the positive health continuum that moves us from stress, depression, loneliness, and trauma to becoming our best selves despite any illness. Dr. Lianov explains that the two continua impact each other. Sometimes starting on the positive health continuum helps us get unstuck in our healing journey.
Positive Psychology Interventions
Dr. Lianov walks us through examples of positive psychology interventions, also called positive activities. How can we use these kinds of positive activities based in the science of positive psychology to support ourselves and thrive in the face of chronic illnesses.
Emotional Wellbeing, Mental Health and Physical Health Are Closely Linked
Emotional and mental health impact our physical health and vice versa. Dr. Lianov highlights how it is important to take care of your emotional and mental health as part of overall physical health and in treating chronic illnesses.
