The Flourishing Center

Flourishing Friday (FF) Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish.  In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

In this episode Emiliya addresses a question submitted by one of our Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) students about how affirmations work. Affirmations are positive statements that individuals repeat to themselves to rewire their thought patterns and beliefs and that ultimately lead to behavior change.

Listen to this episode as Emiliya tackles how affirmations work and the role of attention bias in their effectiveness.

This episode is sponsored by Lift, our daily behavioral mastery program using the science of happiness. Sign up now and choose from live classes every weekday!

Coach’s Corner (CC) - Welcome to the Coach’s Corner, where you get to witness positive psychology-based coaching with master-level certified coaching. Discover positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF.

In this session Emiliya coaches Blake, a rock climber and athlete who wants to explore a call to be motivated and driven as she emerges from a period of ease and softness in her life. 

Together Emiliya and Blake use metaphor and imagery to navigate the space between these seemingly dualistic but equally powerful energies so that Blake can come away with her own model for drive.

This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Applied Positive Psychology Coaching (APPC) Certification. For full show notes visit the website. 

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

Coach’s Corner (CC) - Welcome to the Coach’s Corner, where you get to witness Positive Psychology-based coaching with master-level certified coaching. Discover positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF.

In this episode Emiliya coaches Sara, a non-profit CEO who is about to embark on her own journey into a private practice of coaching and consulting. As Sara enters the liminal space between an ending and a new beginning, she wants to offer herself space to reflect and decompress, something she’s never had in the past as a busy executive. Emilya coaches her through identifying where she’s at and what she needs, patience, in order to find balance during this liminal time.

This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Applied Positive Psychology Coaching (APPC) Certification. For full show notes visit the website: https://theflourishingcenter.com/

Flourishing Friday (FF) Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish.  In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put it into use in all areas of your life.

What if there was one question you could ask every week, month or year that could make a remarkable impact on your wellbeing? In this episode, Emiliya explores the question: If I were watching the movie of my life right now, would I be applauding who and how I am? This question illustrates positive psychology principles like compassion, growth mindset, and the story-telling function of the brain. And the answer to this question can be the difference between thriving and languishing. Listen in to hear more and ask yourself this fascinating question for a flourishing Friday. 

This episode is sponsored by Lift, our daily behavioral mastery program using the science of happiness. Sign up now and choose from live classes every weekday! For full show notes visit the website. 

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

Welcome to Real-time Resilience (RR), where we share the journeys of real people being resilient in real time. Tune in to discover and learn skills to help you recover better from any challenge. Listen to bounce back stories that are sure to inspire and encourage you through any struggle.

In this episode, Emiliya speaks with Laurie, a mother and positive psychology change agent who shares how she used real-time resilience to get her through a parent’s worst nightmare, supporting her family during the aftermath of her son’s mountain biking accident. Laurie found that staying in the present moment, choosing her mindset and other resilience skills were the keys to managing the crisis.  

This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center’s Bounce Back Better (B3)® Resilience Trainer Certification. For full show notes visit the website. 

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

Welcome to Flourishing Fridays (FF), where every Friday we bring you a Positive Psychology-based life hack that will help you flourish.  In these episodes, we look at the real-life application of Positive Psychology while giving you tips and strategies to put Positive Psychology into use in all areas of your life.

In today’s Flourishing Friday episode, listen in as Emiliya talks about the athletics of life.  Every athlete knows that the best way to build their fitness is to train their recovery. But recovering from cognitive strain is a lot harder than recovering from physical strain. Because we are constantly "on", it's more difficult to disengage the mind. Listen in as Emiliya shares three simple practices to recover from cognitive strain so you can come back feeling even stronger. 

This episode is sponsored by the 5i Change Agent model. Curious what type of Change Agent you are? Take this brief assessment to find out now. 

For full show notes visit the website.  https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

Coaches Corner (CC) - Welcome to the Coaches Corner, where you get to witness Positive Psychology-based coaching with master-level certified coaching. Discover positive psychology in action through real-life coaching sessions with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, who holds a Master Coach Certificate (MCC) from the International Coach Federation ICF.

Listen in on this session with Emiliya as she uses the positive psychology coaching model to help her client Zoe build a sense of security and trust in herself as she navigates potentially reconciling an important relationship. 

Together, Emiliya and Zoe look at the transition Zoe is facing in her career, as she moves from an internal role to returning to private coaching practice. Then they dig into the deeper layers of what is affecting Zoe, her experience of the loss of a child and the possibility of rebuilding the relationship with her partner after a period of separation.   

This episode is sponsored by The Flourishing Center's Applied Positive Psychology Coaching (APPC) Certification. For full show notes visit the website. 

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

Welcome to Flourishing Fridays. This past Wednesday we celebrated World Gratitude Day with the first ever TFC Gratitude Marathon, which included 12 hours of online gratitude experiences and courses. If you’d like to learn more about the 24 different experiences or to purchase the recordings, go to theflourishingcenter.com/wgd (that’s WGD for World Gratitude Day). 

In this episode, join Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO and Founder of The Flourishing Center, in a review of the concept of higher order gratitude. 

In traditional positive psychology research, gratitude has been defined as the emotional experience of receiving benefit from other people’s benevolence. But positive psychology researchers have recently widened their lens, incorporating the “higher order” aspects of gratitude that originate from valuable and meaningful life experiences. Join Emiliya as she reviews a study that highlights five higher order aspects and invites you to explore five questions to deepen your experience of gratitude. 

This episode is sponsored by Lift,  a powerful daily learning experience designed to enhance and promote your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health. With Lift, you get skills for life. For full show notes visit the website. 

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

In this Positive Psychology Practitioner Profile Emiliya speaks with Salina Iavarone, a life coach, speaker and co-host of the Live Your Freakin Life Podcast. After leaving her career at her church of 20+ years, Salina discovered positive psychology, and with it, the ability to listen to her body and trust in herself. She now uses her practitioner training to work with people who are undergoing the tumultuous process of leaving or gaining a new perspective on their religious faith. Find the full show notes at https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/

This episode is sponsored by the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) Program. Celebrating its 10 year anniversary, with over 1700 practitioners in 55 countries, CAPP is the world’s premier practitioner training in positive psychology. Discover more about CAPP at https://theflourishingcenter.com/capp.

Ever heard of the vagus nerve, a bundle of thousands of fibers that connects your brain to your heart and influences nearly every internal organ in your body? In this Flourishing Friday episode, Emiliya explains the vagus nerve. #vagusnerve is trending on TikTok with over 24 million views, and it’s no surprise, given the increased stress and uncertainty of the last two years. Here Emiliya shares why people’s fascination with the vagus nerve is spreading, what you should know about yours, and nine ways  you can use it to feel greater mastery over your body. 

This episode is sponsored by Lift, a powerful daily learning experience designed to enhance and promote your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health. With Lift, you get skills for life. For full show notes visit the website. 

https://theflourishingcenter.com/podcast/