What is the Hedonic Treadmill, and how does it undermine our ability to sustain a lasting sense of happiness? 
In this episode Kate overviews her take on the Hedonic Treadmill. She discusses the Hamster Wheel that helps her make sense of the concept. She also discusses the pursuit of external sources of happiness and pleasure and how it often foils us in our attempt to find greater life satisfaction. 
Finally, she highlights actions you can take to get off the treadmill, including:Deepening your awarenessCreating variation in your lifePutting the conscious effort in to savor simple pleasuresand Creating a Values-Based Life. 
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#140. Sustaining Happiness: Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill

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The show is practical in that it will include plenty of tips and tricks that you can apply to your own life to feel more happy in your heart. It focuses on achieving balance, finding peace, and discovering our personal power. It is a show is for those of us who are not content with living a shallow life but rather are ready to focus on our personal and soul growth and development.&nbsp;
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Kate is talking through 4 elements that will help you strengthen your intuition. Namely:Having a Spiritual PracticeFormulating a Way to Receive GuidanceTurning off Outside InfluencesTrusting Yourself with What You Hear
 She mentions resources that she finds useful, including: Seekers Sanctuary binaural beat meditation music: www.seeksanctuary.comBOOK: Return to You by Shannon Kaiser: Return to You on AmazonJournal prompt: What do I most need to hear right now?
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#168. Strengthening Your Intuition

This episode we're addressing the tension or challenge between meeting two human needs, Authenticity and Belonging. Kate overviews the concept of Authenticity and then illustrates the tension that can be felt between choosing to be authentic and belong using models of development and motivation from humanistic psychology including, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development. 
Questions Kate poses to help you explore your values and driving motives, to help facilitate authenticity: What matters to me?What do I want to stand for and want to orient my life around?What do I believe are the ingredients of a great and happy life?
 Resources Kate references: Scientific American Article (Maslow & Rogers): https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/choose-growth/#:~:text=Maslow%20argued%20that%20all%20the,belonging%2C%20or%20self%2Desteem.Erick Erickson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development: https://www.psychologynoteshq.com/erikson-stages/Wikipedia Article on 8 stages of Psychosocial Development with Existential Questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development
 Book that prompted Kate consider these concepts and their ongoing tension: The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate and Daniel Mate Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#167. Authenticity vs. Belonging

As a natural skeptic, there is one question that helps me suspend my judgment and move into faith. In this episode, I'm diving into what that question is, and how I apply it to support me. 
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#166. One Question that Helps Me Have Faith

Kate is breaking down the crucially important difference between supportive compassionate helping, and enabling bad behavior. 
There is a blurry line between the two that is often complicated by personal and caring relationships. But it is a slippery slope, and while no one ever intends to enable behavior in another that is unhealthy, supportive helping can turn into enabling behavior. 
In this episode Kate outlines: The difference between Compassion & EnablingHow enabling can do harmThe relationships where we need to be aware of the potential to become an enablerHow we can recognize enabling behavior in ourselves3 ways we can move away from enabling, and back towards compassion
 Kate recommends Nancy Levin's Here to Thrive Interview - Episode 132. 
She also recommends two books (these are affiliate links): Setting Boundaries will Set You FreeTED: The Empowerment Dynamic
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#165. Compassion vs Enabling

Welcome back! Here to Thrive is back for Season 6.  You can expect an every other week release schedule, and thoughts from Kate along with guest interviews to help widen your perspective on life, and introduce you to new thoughts and ideas. 
If you'd like to connect with Kate, you can head to www.heretothrive.com or www.katesnowise.com to learn more. 

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#140. Sustaining Happiness: Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill

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