In this episode, you'll learn not only how to identify avoidance in yourself and others, but also some practical tips and strategies for how to overcome avoidant tendencies.

We also look at ways of treating dissociative symptoms and how dissociative identity disorder developed out of what used to be known as multiple personality disorder.

As always, we apply an optimistic framework to the topic to hopefully get across the idea that trauma is something that can not only be overcome, but can also provide us with an opportunity to learn and eventually prosper, despite what can often be such negative circumstances.

In recent years, positive psychology has changed some of the ways we think about anxiety, so we explore ways to look at anxiety more optimistically, including ways of using the character strengths to be more proactive against feeling anxious and offering support to those around us.

On this episode, Rowan and Chris ask the question, if sport is likely to be one of the first things to return, how can we best take advantage of it? We look at the importance of sport and the relationship between sport, the character strengths and our wellbeing.

In episode one, Rowan and Chris discuss what the podcast will be about, take a broad look at the character strengths and why they're particularly useful and we look at what opportunities the COVID-19 pandemic may present to us over the coming months.

First published 6 April 2020

This week, Chris and Rowan discuss ways of using positive psychology to manage the added conflict and situations that we're all likely to face over the coming months. We discuss what conflict is and some of the main conflict styles that people tend to use, ways of using the character strengths to manage conflict with family and friends as we're all in closer proximity and finally, ways of managing anger when tensions do bubble over.

This week, Rowan and Chris discuss ways of curating a news diet that's healthy for our state of mind. We discuss why too much negative news is bad for us, how we can use the character strengths to improve our news diet with different sources, including new media, and why it's worth taking this opportunity to reflect upon and expand the places where we seek our news.

First published on 20 April 2020