Category: Positive Living
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Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
The start of a new year often brings reflection, hope, and vulnerability. In this reflective post, Leslie Tourish, LPC, explores how chronic pessimism—our own or others’—can quietly drain our emotional energy and optimism. Through storytelling and practical insight, she offers ways to protect positivity, set emotional boundaries, and cultivate optimism as a meaningful practice. This…
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3 Reasons You Already Have the Happiness You Need for the New Year
3 Reasons You Already Have the Happiness You Need for the New Year
As the new year begins, many of us look ahead hoping happiness will finally arrive. But research and reflection suggest something gentler and more reassuring: much of the happiness we seek is already present in our lives. This post explores three reasons you may already have what you need to enter the new year with…
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10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
Stress: Why do we have it? Stress is the taproot of our survival system. Without it we wouldn’t have the motivation to get out of bed, nor the sense of preservation to look both ways when crossing the street. Therefore, stress in and of itself is as natural and part of the landscape as a…
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Kindness Comes From Strength: A Parking Lot Lesson in Grace
Kindness Comes From Strength: A Parking Lot Lesson in Grace
Expressing grace and kindness in moments where you may typically display anger and frustration have more benefits than you may think. See how an unexpected parking lot interaction is defused with kindness and consideration.
Leslie Tourish LPC 