Power For Positive Living

Learning to actively listen is often a personal challenge. While most efforts are focused on learning to listen to others, the more challenging behavior is often learning methods to listen and hear one's self.

Your host uses illustrations of the model: attitudes = feelings & thoughts = behavior. Many blame their behavior of being a life victim on the input from others. We each have the personal power to make individual choices that can determine our behavior.

This broadcast continues the tradition begun in the first Power For Positive Living broadcast to better understand ones personal growth and writing ones own Life Novel by using the personal retreat process.

Two staff members of a psychiatric hospital in Houston (Scott Kunkle/Danny Carr) discuss the in-patient psychiatric treatment that adolescents can expect to experience when they enter a psychiatric hospital program. The various aspects of hospital psychiatric treatment are demystified.

Your host believes in the value of having new experiences in living. Young people learn a great deal about themselves as they move from a safe home environment dependency to a world of independent living as an adult whether it be to college or employment.

Mr. Charles Goodman, a student personnel specialist with Texas A&M, is interviewed.

One of the cornerstones of wellness psychology is acknowledging the power of choice that each of us implements every day of our lives. A key to a better understanding of who we are is learning how we choose our attitudes, expectations and create our personal definitions.

One of the cornerstones of wellness psychology is acknowledging the power of choice that each of us implements every day of our lives. A key to a better understanding of who we are is learning how we choose our attitudes, expectations and create our personal definitions.

Your host responds to a book called How to Make Yourself Miserable by Dan Greenberg.  This book is a parody of money/attractiveness to show how so many are successful in making themselves emotionally miserable.

Two personal growth books by Abraham Twerski are discussed. These books have so much to offer individuals interested in personal growth that they are still available in print 30 years after this broadcast.

Each book provides various topics for each of us to ponder as we make the decisions on the life path we choose for ourselves. Ideas are made clearer, less threatening and more relatable through the humor of Charles Schultz and his "Peanuts" gang.

Two personal growth books by Abraham Twerski are discussed. These books have so much to offer individuals interested in personal growth that they are still available in print 30 years after this broadcast.

Each book provides various topics for each of us to ponder as we make the decisions on the life path we choose for ourselves. Ideas are made clearer, less threatening and more relatable through the humor of Charles Schultz and his "Peanuts" gang.

There are many aspects for us to focus on in the field of wellness psychology. Building positive self-esteem within children supports wellness for adult mental health. Esteem for self is personal; each individual will choose what works for them to meet their various needs. Positive esteem in one's attitudes frequently leads to healthy feelings and behavior.