Power For Positive Living

On this episode of Power of Positive Living, your host welcomes special guest Mal Hunter from the Galveston Small Business Center to discuss the topic of small business development.

Defining Self-Identity with Sports

Mike Bailey, Sports Editor of the Galveston Daily News joins your host to discuss the awesome power that our society gives sports to acquire values, attitudes, and behaviors during our personal growth into adulthood.

Sports tend to reflect our society at home, school, church, work, etc., by teaching important values and attitudes. We learn much of how we see ourselves as individuals and as members of our society through the positive or not-so-positive experiences we have with the world of sports.

We often choose to see ourselves and others as a result of mental 'silent tapes' of our previous experiences with sports. We often are not aware of how powerful these silent messages can be in influencing our positive and/or negative moods and behaviors long after the causation factors took place.

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. 

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.

Mrs. Sharon Saney, Director of Youth Ministry, Houston Diocese, is interviewed and shares some ways in which parents, teachers, peers, etc., can encourage and support the development of positive self-esteem in young people. 

A continuing challenge for most of us is realizing that what is characteristic and normal of our own area of life is not necessarily the same all over our world. Travel allows us to experience the different viewpoints and behaviors that are norms in many places other than where we live.

If we ever desire to better understand our own lives, travel challenges us to leave the familiar and experience the differences taking place elsewhere. This can be in the next state or on the other side of our planet. We can learn so much about ourselves when we travel and actively seek the experiences of interacting with different people and locations.

This week on the podcast, your host welcomes James Rankin as our special guest. James dives deep into the art of personal motivation, sharing practical strategies for staying driven in the face of challenges. He offers expert insights into cultivating a positive mindset, balancing ambition with self-care, and overcoming common hurdles that can derail progress.

One of the foundations for Wellness Psychology is that each of us is responsible for our own individual patterns of personal growth into the person we are and whoever we may wish to become.

This conversation with special guest Bill Alley demonstrates the foundational concept that our personal growth patterns are an active never-ending process full of option choices.  

 Greg Moore completed a personal retreat and is interviewed.   He discusses how he used his personal retreat to take responsibility for clarifying where he has been in life, who he is today and possible choices to be faced as he prepares for his future.

 His focus for writing his life story has been to reclaim his individuality, understand the power of labels and take the risks to experiment with various degrees of thought, feelings, and behaviors for possible change. His goals have been to reclaim his individuality, understand the power of labels and take the risks to experiment with various degrees of thought, feelings, and behaviors for possible change. 

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.

Personal retreating is an intense introspective process with an emotional facilitator to better understand the choices one has made as a child or an adult to reach their current place during their Life Journey.