The 3 Good Podcast

This is a fab episode! Sukh invites Gemma Dale as a guest to the podcast to discuss physical wellbeing. They have a great discussion about why diets are fads, why they don't work, and what can be done about that from an individual perspective. Gemma openly shares about her journey to becoming a personal trainer, losing significant weight and how she got there. They talk about now we can understand nutrition much better and the impact our decisions about food have on our health and wellbeing. Gemma gives really good advice and guidance on how to think about physical activity and exercise, and in particular what different types of exercise do for the body. There's a lot of good exploration about mental health and attitudes to physical health and food in this episode.

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

You can connect with Gemma on Twitter @hr_gem, and she keeps a fitness blog here All About Fitness https://allaboutfitness.org/.

Gemma mentioned the book The Angry Chef, which you can get here http://angry-chef.com/. 

In this episode, Sukh explores the topic of achievements. He talks about the premium we place on the traditional sense of achievements, and how this impacts on belittling the importance of regular everyday achievements.

You can follow Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

On this episode, Sukh talks about happiness and how it's not easy to find as people want it to be, or make claims about the right way to be happy. He argues perhaps happiness - and unhappiness - are what we describe when either other things are going very well for us, or when other things are not going well.

He explains the PERMA model by Martin Seligman in which he discusses you can think about and improve your wellbeing and raise your resilience. Wellbeing and resilience are concepts you can measure and you can improve tacitly - that is by doing things. The PERMA model is

• Positive emotion

You can read more about this model in Martin Seligman's book, Flourish.

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You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

On this episode, Sukh talks about happiness and how it's not easy to find as people want it to be, or make claims about the right way to be happy. He argues perhaps happiness - and unhappiness - are what we describe when either other things are going very well for us, or when other things are not going well.

He explains the PERMA model by Martin Seligman in which he discusses you can think about and improve your wellbeing and raise your resilience. Wellbeing and resilience are concepts you can measure and you can improve tacitly - that is by doing things. The PERMA model is

• Positive emotion

You can read more about this model in Martin Seligman's book, Flourish.

If you like this episode, hit 'like', subscribe to the podcast, and it helps others to find the podcast if you leave a comment.

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

In this episode, Sukh takes personally about what he's learned about self-care and how it's helped him improve his wellbeing and maintain better resilience. He explains that his main driver for this was in recognising that when at home he wasn't always his best self, and this was in part because there were many other aspects of his life that were not in a good place. He talks through how he paid attention to:

• everyday routines

The Emotion at Work podcast he made reference to is episode 17 on Burnout http://emotionatwork.podbean.com/e/emotion-at-work-stories-burnout/.

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

On this episode, Sukh spends time exploring wellbeing beyond the normal confines of physical and mental health. He encourages listeners to consider factors around emotional health, financial health, work health, community health and spiritual health and how these impact on wellbeing too.

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

This is an NHS article about being 'fat and healthy' - https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/regular-activity-may-help-some-people-stay-fat-and-fit/.

The Emotion At Work podcast by Phil Willcox https://www.emotionatwork.co.uk/podcast/.

In this episode, Sukh has guest Sarah Boyd on the show, and they talk about a range of things for how positive psychology is put into practice. Sarah's main area of work focuses on healthcare in the UK and enabling better change within the NHS.

They talk about appreciate inquiry as an approach for organisational change, and how it utilises positive psychology principles to enable generative dialogue and focusing on strengths and achievements. They talk about the use or language and how the language we use determines what we think and believe. They explore all manners of topics related to positive psychology with some quality thinking about approaches to change management, the importance of taking small steps, the interplay of positive psychology and life events that are challenging, and how we can think about parenting in different ways too.

As it's still early day's in Sukh's world of podcasting, the audio edit isn't as well balanced as it could be. Please do forgive Sukh's tinny and sharp speech, he promises not to do it again!

You can connect with Sukh and Sarah on Twitter - @sukhpabial and @sarahboydh

In the podcast, the following pieces are referenced:

Sarah wrote a blog post about the bits of appreciative inquiry that she loves. That's here http://www.dotconnection.co.uk/blog/2017/11/17/appreciative-inquiry-the-bits-i-love

The Grief Cast by Cariad Lloyd https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/griefcast/id1178572854?mt=2

The Emotion At Work podcast by Phil Willcox https://www.emotionatwork.co.uk/podcast/

They talk about Miriam Akhtar who is a positive psychology practitioner in the UK. You can find her here https://positivepsychologytraining.co.uk/about/miriam/

They also talk about and get all fanboi over Sarah Lewis and her work in positive psychology and as an appreciative inquiry practitioner. You can find out about her here https://www.acukltd.com/about-us/

Sarah mentioned Sarah Lewis' book - Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management which you can get here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Appreciative-Inquiry-Change-Management-Organizational/dp/0749463554/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1524923033&sr=8-12&keywords=sarah+lewis+books

In this episode, Sukh talks about what kindness means, about how it makes us feel, what it enables in us as people, and how we naturally seek to be kind to others. He talks about how kindness is love, and is one of the most true forms of human virtue and humanity. 

Sukh also shares in this episode a practical activity called a gratitude visit. He explains what it is, and how it can happen. 

Sukh made reference to this tweet from Lindsay Toub https://twitter.com/cblitoub/status/982340474752176129

In this episode, Sukh talks about emotional health. He talks about how its commonplace to talk about physical health and mental health, and we don't often talk about emotional health. He explores ways in which we can think about our emotions, how we can understand what our emotions might be telling us, and different ways we can resolve or deal with our emotions. Sukh also discusses emotional health for men and how men are socialised to suppress and express emotions in different ways.

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

In this episode, Sukh talks about the importance of community. He takes a look into how community differs from other groups such as cults, or groups where people are willingly causing harm to themselves or to others. He highlights what community enables for people to thrive, and the role of community leaders. He gives examples of different communities he's part of and shares insights into why Sikhs see community as a blessed group of people. 

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.