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Align: Awaken Your Inner Healer and Restore Balance in Your Mind, Body and Energy
Align by Summer Jean is a hybrid of memoir, self-development workbook, and spiritual-therapeutic guide. It moves in a deliberate arc from examining inherited beliefs, trauma, and survival patterns through nervous-system awareness and self-attunement, then into Jean’s central 4Vs framework: Values, Virtues, Victories, and Vision. The final section turns toward fate, conscious choice, alignment, and the Hero’s Journey. The organizing idea is that healing can become a form of self-leadership, with greater awareness giving you more freedom over how you respond to your life. Jean gives that idea a consistent vocabulary through the cave and shackles metaphor, “God Moments,” the “inner healer,” and the 4Vs, which helps hold together a book that covers a lot of territory.
The most engaging parts are where Jean turns concepts into experiences. She draws openly from her own history and from client stories, then regularly follows the discussion with “Ascend Moments” that ask the reader to breathe, notice bodily sensations, journal, and examine a belief, reaction, or choice. She describes the book as both a map and a practice, combining personal stories, journal prompts, nervous-system regulation exercises, and spiritual principles. That structure gives Align a hands-on rhythm. You can read a chapter, try the exercise, and see how the idea actually lands in your own life. Jean’s voice is candid, intimate, and sometimes quite vulnerable, and her recurring metaphors make the book feel like one sustained conversation.
The book’s broad synthesis is also its boldest feature. Jean intentionally brings psychology, neuroscience, trauma theory, Ayurveda, Eastern philosophy, and spiritual wisdom into the same framework. As the book progresses, particularly in the Vision section and the closing chapters, that synthesis expands to include vibrational frequency, manifestation, the Law of Attraction, synchronicity, and other spiritual laws. For readers who already see psychology, spirituality, and embodiment as parts of one conversation, that approach will probably feel natural. Jean sometimes gives neuroscientific language and metaphysical claims a similar degree of certainty, so I found the book most useful when reading its psychological observations and practical exercises on their own merits while understanding the universal-energy claims as part of her spiritual worldview. Its strongest moments are the ones where a large idea comes back down to something tangible: a breath, a boundary, a journal question, an honest look at a pattern, or a decision about what comes next.
I’d recommend Align to readers who enjoy reflective self-development with a strong spiritual center, especially people who function well outwardly while feeling disconnected, overextended, or caught in patterns they understand intellectually but haven’t been able to change. Jean specifically writes to people experiencing high-functioning depression, people-pleasing, physical manifestations of stress, and the feeling that something is still missing after experiences with therapy, meditation, yoga, medication, or other approaches. I think it will resonate most with someone who’s willing to participate by journaling, trying breath and body-awareness practices, questioning old beliefs, and thinking seriously about values, character, progress, and the life they want to create. I think Align is built to be worked with, revisited, and practiced over time, and readers who like that kind of active relationship with a book are likely to appreciate it most.
Pages: 317 | ASIN : B0HFM7MBNK
Where Wounds Live
Where Wounds Live by Dr. Sam Mishra is an ambitious and wide-ranging examination of the many places trauma can surface in a person’s life. Across its collection of articles, Mishra moves through abuse, addiction, body image and sexuality, family relationships, grief, social attitudes, somatic responses, empathy, transformation, and adult relationship patterns. What gives this breadth coherence is the author’s consistent interest in aftermath. Trauma is presented as something that can alter self-perception, attachment, bodily experience, intimacy, communication, coping strategies, and a person’s sense of belonging. Mishra’s own history is an important part of that approach. Her experience in nursing and midwifery, her work as a trauma and bodywork practitioner, and her personal experiences of abuse, chronic pain, grief, depression, and PTSD give the book a voice that moves between professional explanation and personal testimony.
One of the book’s strongest recurring ideas is that many behaviours commonly regarded as dysfunctional make more sense when understood as adaptations to pain. This is particularly clear in the chapters on addiction, nervous system dysregulation, attachment, emotional triggers, avoidance, and self-sabotage. Mishra repeatedly asks readers to look beneath behaviour for the fear, injury, unmet need, or survival strategy sustaining it. In the addiction section, this principle is stated with unusual clarity: the question should be “‘what happened to this person?’ rather than ‘what is wrong with them?'” That shift in perspective becomes one of the book’s central ethical commitments. It encourages compassion without eliminating personal responsibility and allows Mishra to discuss subjects as different as addiction, narcissistic abuse, family estrangement, avoidant attachment, and rescuing behaviour within the same larger framework. Her treatment of recovery consequently emphasizes safety, stabilization, boundaries, self-awareness, and gradual regulation.
The body is equally central to Mishra’s understanding of trauma. Throughout the book, she returns to the relationship between psychological distress and physical experience, particularly through discussions of cortisol, hypervigilance, dissociation, intimacy, scars, touch, breathwork, nervous system regulation, massage, and other somatic practices. In her discussion of body image, for example, recovery is framed as integration, with survivors learning to inhabit their bodies with greater agency. The result is an integrative book in the fullest sense: psychological research and attachment theory appear alongside real experience, medical knowledge, therapeutic observation, spirituality, and holistic approaches. Its article format also gives the work an accessible rhythm. Readers can follow its larger argument from beginning to end, but individual chapters can function independently as focused discussions of particular problems. That makes the book especially suited to readers who may want to return to a subject such as grief, intimacy, addiction, family wounds, or emotional triggers when it becomes relevant to their own experience.
Where Wounds Live is a book about what becomes possible once trauma is understood. Mishra doesn’t reduce healing to returning to an earlier version of oneself. Instead, she treats it as a process of integration, boundary formation, self-knowledge, nervous system regulation, renewed connection, and, at times, profound personal transformation. That philosophy is captured near the end of the introduction when she writes, “Your trauma does not define your worth or limit your potential.” The sentence reflects the larger character of the collection: compassionate without being sentimental, hopeful while remaining attentive to the long reach of traumatic experience, and deeply interested in helping readers find language for experiences that can otherwise remain confusing or isolating. With its combination of personal candour, explanatory writing, research, and practical reflection, Where Wounds Live offers a substantial resource for survivors, supporters, and practitioners seeking a broader understanding of how trauma can shape a life and how healing can reshape it in turn.
Pages: 888 | ISBN : 1807690873
The Dictionary of Missing Time
The Dictionary of Missing Time, by Susan Eileen, is a memoir of addiction, family, relationships, mental health, and recovery organized through a clever personal lexicon. Each chapter takes its title from an expression Eileen has coined or adopted, such as “A Reverse Kafka,” “Memory Burn,” “Irish Goodbye,” and “Confident Humility,” then uses that phrase as an entry point into a particular period of her life. The dictionary framework gives shape to a story that ranges from a financially strained childhood in Ohio through marriage, motherhood, teaching, substance abuse, difficult relationships, legal trouble, and sobriety. Early in the book, Eileen describes her life as “a series of rambunctious events,” an apt description of a memoir that moves through painful and comic experiences with considerable energy.
Eileen’s voice is the book’s defining strength. She writes with candor about behavior that could easily be softened in retrospect, including drinking, pill abuse, financial instability, people-pleasing, damaged relationships, and the ways addiction consumed both her time and her attention. Her humor gives the book accessibility without erasing the seriousness of what she describes. The invented expressions are often funny, but they also function as compact explanations for recurring patterns of behavior. As the memoir progresses, these terms become a way for Eileen to name experiences she once struggled to understand. That approach is particularly effective because language itself becomes part of the recovery process: defining an experience allows her to examine it, connect it to the past, and decide what role it should have in her future.
The book also succeeds in presenting sobriety as a continuing process of self-examination. Eileen traces improvements in her work habits, finances, home life, boundaries, relationships, and ability to tolerate difficult emotions, while also examining transfer addiction and the patterns she carried from childhood and marriage into later relationships. Some of the memoir’s most thoughtful passages concern time, particularly the years and mental energy absorbed by addiction. Her observation that “Time can never be retrieved” gives the title its deeper significance. Recovery, in this telling, involves recognizing that lost time while becoming more deliberate about the time that remains. The result is a narrative concerned as much with identity, habits, and emotional maturity as with abstinence itself.
By the end, The Dictionary of Missing Time has become a record of reconstruction. Eileen arrives at a life built around simplicity, creative work, family, healthier boundaries, volunteering, and a more measured sense of self. Her idea of “confident humility,” defined as keeping one’s ego in proper proportion, neatly captures the balance she spends much of the book trying to establish. The closing sentiment, “I’ve built a life I don’t need a vacation from,” gives the memoir an especially fitting conclusion because it measures recovery through ordinary contentment. Eileen has created a personal recovery memoir with an unusual organizing principle, a conversational voice, and a clear interest in how people can use language, reflection, and self-knowledge to make sense of a complicated life.
Pages: 268 | ASIN : B0CTN1NJWW
Our Digital Dependence
Happiness Unleashed is a practical 90-day guide that helps readers break free from limiting habits and conditioning while cultivating greater awareness, intentionality, and lasting happiness. How does this book build on the ideas you introduced in Unplug Your Robot?
Unplug Your Robot explains how our thoughts, beliefs, programming, and routines stifle our happiness and well-being. Those things act like a robot within us that interferes with who we really are. The good news is, we can unplug our individual robot and take control of our own happiness. The Happiness Unleashed playbook takes the ideas in Unplug Your Robot to the next level. It offers bite-sized, playful strategies to bring more happiness and fulfillment into each day. The structured, 90-day format provides a specific, actionable (and amusing) roadmap to break free from automatic thoughts and behaviors to create a more joyful life.
Some of your exercises encourage readers to change familiar routines. Why can small changes have such a powerful effect on our awareness?
The minute we interrupt a familiar routine, we instantly become more alive and more present. Our routines and habits – while initially helpful – require only a small portion of our total awareness, which means we’re not fully there. It’s the robot in us that mechanically goes through the motions. Our morning routine, for instance, might be an efficient way to get us up and out the door, but how much joy is in it – waking up at the same time, eating the same breakfast, showering and shaving the same way, in the same order each time?
When we interrupt our routine with a small change like brushing our teeth with our non-dominant hand, we get an immediate jolt of awareness. Suddenly, we have to pay attention. You can try this for yourself. The next time you brush your teeth, use your non-dominant hand. It’s hilarious. You simply cannot do it robotically. It requires your full attention and presence; otherwise, you’ll find yourself with toothpaste all over your face.
Mixing up our routines and breaking up patterns with small changes is a quick and simple way to spice up our day and enjoy each moment.
Why do you believe setting boundaries around technology and digital distractions is important for well-being?
It’s absolutely critical. Much of our physical health, as well as our mental and emotional well-being, depends on it. Repeated studies have shown how our digital dependence contributes to low energy, poor sleep, depression, anxiety, ADD, loneliness, obesity, and overwhelm. Some studies suggest that the average adult (in the Western Hemisphere) checks their phone 150+ times per day, sleeps with it next to the bed, wakes up during the night to check it, and even sends texts while on the toilet. This is insane. This unhealthy relationship with our cell phone leads to a highly scattered, reactive, isolated, and passive way of living.
It doesn’t have to be that way. If we look back at some of our happiest moments, we’ll notice they have several things in common. Our happiest moments tend to be active experiences, where we are focused and fully in the moment. Those moments rarely include a smartphone, television screen, or laptop. When we set boundaries and are intentional with our use of digital devices, we regain control of our time and our daily peace and calm.
If someone only had time to begin with three practices from Happiness Unleashed, which would you recommend?
One of the most impactful practices is to optimize the first 60 minutes of our day. I call it the “power hour.” Whatever we do (or don’t do) during that first hour sets the tone for the entire day – and often determines how focused, productive, and joyful we will be.
If we check our phones first thing in the morning, for instance, we are programming ourselves to be reactive to other people’s agendas all day long. If instead we were to engage in more intentional activities such as stretching, meditating, or going for a short walk, we start our day from a centered, peaceful, and focused place. From that place, anything is possible.
If your schedule doesn’t allow you an uninterrupted 60 minutes in the morning, you can still reap the benefits with a 30-minute – or even 15-minute – practice to jumpstart your day. Stretch while you are still in bed. Write down five things you are grateful for. Think of three ways this week will be amazing. Carving out time for yourself first thing in the morning – even if just 15 minutes – offers a huge return on investment for your own daily happiness (and for that of everyone around you).
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We’ve all been there. We convince ourselves that if only we were to get that promotion, that perfect partner or that ideal house, then we would be happy. Then we could relax.
It’s a lie. Happiness isn’t out there. In fact, happiness is closer than you think.
Maybe you’ve tried vision boards and gratitude lists. Perhaps you’ve attempted to change your mindset. You might feel happy in moments here and there, yet despite your best efforts, lasting happiness eludes you.
You can change that.
You can live each day with energy and enthusiasm. The Happiness Unleashed playbook will show you how. It contains instant mood boost techniques, practical tools for improving your daily happiness and well-being, as well as powerful practices to:Jumpstart your morning to get the most out of your day
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Tap into and experience the happiness that is already here, regardless of your health, finances, stress level, workload, relatives or other circumstances. With the Happiness Unleashed playbook, you’ll get the tune-up you need to boost your energy, brighten your outlook and live the life you were meant to.
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Happiness Unleashed: Your 90-Day Playbook for a Life of Meaning and Happiness that Lasts
Karin Kiser’s Happiness Unleashed is an interactive 90-day guide to developing a more intentional, engaged, and joyful way of living. Designed as a companion to her earlier book Unplug Your Robot, it explores how conditioning, habitual reactions, mental chatter, and social programming can restrict a person’s natural capacity for happiness. Kiser’s central idea is captured in the concise statement, “Happiness is a process.” Rather than treating well-being as a reward obtained through ideal circumstances, she presents it as a state readers can cultivate through repeated choices, greater awareness, and purposeful action.
The book’s 90-day structure turns that philosophy into a practical program. Each brief entry introduces a “playbit,” Kiser’s term for an activity or concept to explore, followed by prompts, exercises, anecdotes, or quotations. The practices range from reshaping morning and evening routines to journaling, meditation, movement, gratitude, laughter, physical connection, digital boundaries, self-love, and the examination of limiting beliefs. As the book progresses, its focus expands from immediate mood regulation to deeper questions involving purpose, relationships, intuition, identity, and personal responsibility. The closing entries revisit earlier practices and encourage readers to decide which ones will become part of their lives.
Kiser’s conversational voice gives the material warmth and accessibility. She often uses humor, personal stories, playful dares, and deliberately unusual activities to move readers beyond passive reflection. Her statement that “This isn’t another to-do list. It is a playbook, a book of play” accurately describes both the format and the book’s guiding spirit. The recurring invitations to experiment help create continuity across the 90 days, while the book’s quick-reference sections make useful practices easy to revisit. Its combination of short readings and immediate application also suits readers who prefer personal development material in manageable daily portions.
Happiness Unleashed succeeds as a participatory workbook that asks readers to practice its principles. Its approach blends familiar wellness habits with spiritual concepts, visualization techniques, belief work, and Kiser’s recurring metaphor of “unplugging the robot.” Readers who commit to the daily activities will find a substantial collection of methods for interrupting automatic behavior and directing attention toward meaning, connection, and appreciation. The result is an energetic and highly structured guide that treats happiness as an active relationship with everyday life.
Pages: 220 | ISBN : 978-1733575959
The Invisible Soul Anthology: Healing With Words
The Invisible Soul Anthology, by George Beasley, is a deeply personal and inspirational Christian memoir built from nearly fifty stories, reflections, memories, and poems about trauma, faith, family, grief, mental health, and healing. Beasley describes the collection as a journey from hidden struggles toward emotional healing and redemption, and that idea gives the book its shape. Readers are led through memories as they surface, taking them from childhood abuse and group homes to marriage, fatherhood, ministry, therapy, loss, and the quieter moments that have helped him make sense of it all. As a faith-based memoir, the book feels personal in the way a long conversation with someone can be personal. Beasley isn’t standing at a distance from these experiences. He’s writing from inside them.
One of the most compelling parts of this trauma recovery memoir is the way ordinary places and objects become containers for much larger emotions. A sandbar becomes a place of belonging, a river becomes an image of grief and the undertow of despair, a childhood closet holds both terror and an imagined fire of hope, and a catfish pond becomes a mental refuge first learned in a group home and rediscovered decades later through therapy. These recurring images give the book its own language. Beasley also writes openly about suicidal thoughts, childhood trauma, triggers, therapy, and the difficult work of recognizing emotions he spent much of his life avoiding. That makes The Invisible Soul Anthology as much a mental health memoir as it is a Christian testimony. Faith and professional help aren’t treated as competing ideas here. They become parts of the same healing journey.
The heart of the collection, though, is connection. Beasley returns again and again to the people who helped him survive and grow: his wife Lisa, his daughters and grandchildren, his brothers, old friends, therapists, house parents, ministry partners, and even people encountered briefly along the way. Some of the strongest pieces look at relationships from the distance of many years and allow an old memory to take on a different meaning. In “Was It Love or Was It…,” for example, what he carried as childhood betrayal gradually becomes an understanding of his mother’s desperate attempt to protect him. That willingness to revisit the past is central to this Christian healing book. The prose is direct, emotionally exposed, and often devotional, with scripture and faith woven naturally into the author’s interpretation of what happened and why those experiences still matter.
What stayed with me most is the book’s conviction that words can become part of the healing process. Beasley repeatedly shows writing as a way of bringing buried memories into the light, giving language to pain, and leaving something useful for the people who come afterward. Late in the collection, he writes about opening himself to emotions while spending time with his grandchildren and discovering that something as simple as giving them his time can become an expression of love and a repair of what was missing in his own childhood. That captures The Invisible Soul Anthology well. It’s a Christian memoir about healing, but it’s also an anthology about being seen, listening closely, loving people while there’s still time, and finding meaning in memories that once seemed too painful to revisit. Readers drawn to inspirational Christian books, spiritual memoirs, and trauma recovery stories will find plenty here to sit with long after the final page.
Pages: 275 | ASIN : B0HD3W8G2V
Evenings on the Edge of Death
Evenings on the Edge of Death by Theodore McDowell is a collection of what the author calls “poeticized non-fiction,” built from memory, family history, trauma, aging, faith, dementia, and grief. The book arranges its poems into collages centered on the author’s mother, father, sister, marriage, and final goodbyes. That structure suits the subject especially well because memory itself is fragmented here. A childhood scene, a nursing home room, a beach, a cathedral, a marriage, or a deathbed can suddenly open into something that happened decades earlier. The result feels less like someone recounting a life from beginning to end and more like sitting with someone as certain memories keep returning because they still haven’t finished speaking.
The strongest thread running through the collection is the complicated relationship between love and injury. McDowell writes about an abusive father without reducing him to a single act or characteristic, and he writes about his mother with equal parts tenderness, frustration, guilt, and awe. Dementia makes those relationships even more complicated. In “The Storm of Dementia,” for example, his mother searches desperately for her dead husband and eventually mistakes her son for a young man while insisting that her husband is resting in the back bedroom. Similar tensions shape the poems about his sister Rachel, whose childhood abuse, mental illness, alcoholism, and eventual suicide become part of the family history he keeps trying to understand. The book is deeply interested in what happens after trauma, not just in the original wound. Shame gets inherited, anger resurfaces, children repeat behaviors they once feared, and forgiveness becomes something much more difficult than simply deciding to let the past go.
McDowell’s imagery gives the book much of its personality. Water, storms, winter branches, birds, wheat fields, roses, graveyards, fishing, stained glass, and fading light appear again and again, creating a kind of private symbolic language. Christian imagery is especially prominent, but the poems also reach toward Buddhist and other spiritual traditions as the speaker wrestles with questions about suffering, memory, redemption, and whether anything about a life survives being forgotten. Some of the most affecting moments are also the most ordinary: combing a mother’s thinning hair, remembering a baseball glove, planting flowers with a wife, watching someone breathe, or holding a hand that will soon grow cold. McDowell repeatedly brings enormous questions about God and mortality down into physical things that can be smelled, touched, heard, or held. Because certain images and ideas recur so persistently, the collection develops an almost ritual rhythm. The reader begins to recognize the beach, the river, the cathedral, the nursing home, and the garden as emotional places as much as physical ones.
I’d recommend Evenings on the Edge of Death most strongly to readers who appreciate confessional poetry, memoir in verse, and writing about family relationships that allows affection, resentment, guilt, faith, and grief to exist at the same time. It will likely resonate especially with people who have cared for a parent with dementia, survived a difficult family history, lost someone to suicide or mental illness, or found themselves reconsidering childhood after becoming older themselves. It’s also a natural fit for readers interested in spiritual writing that treats faith as an ongoing struggle. What stays with me most is the book’s idea of remembering as a form of care. Again and again, McDowell writes because somebody is disappearing, has already disappeared, or may someday be forgotten. By the final poems, preserving those lives through language has become one of the collection’s central acts of love.
Pages: 171 | ASIN : B0CVJ4PR85
The Science of Positive Psychology
Positives follows three children as they discover how practicing gratitude can transform their outlook, improve their emotions, and help them build meaningful new friendships. What inspired you to create this story for young readers?
Our troubled world. We’re having so many problems, and there’s so much tension and anxiety and people bickering and division going on in our world right now. I saw this, and I found myself very concerned about the next generation. Initially, I felt really hopeless and depressed. I thought, “What can I do?” I can’t change the political landscape, but I’ve been teaching a class on positive psychology for the last 16 years. Surely, I have something to offer. So I chose to write a children’s book that infuses positive psychology into the lives of these young people right at the time that they’re really going to need it. So, on the surface, the book seems to be about helping to improve happiness, but the real driving force behind it is helping them to become more optimistic and resilient.
Another strong motivator for the book is how happiness spreads. The science of positive psychology has proven that when one person becomes happier, it has the same spread as a virus. If you want to look it up, it’s Nicholas Christakis, and he has a book called Connected. So when one person becomes happier, it spreads to a thousand people per person! So if we get these books into even one classroom, it has the potential to help 30,000 people! So I’m hoping at a time in our history when we really, really need it, that this very small little book can help to make a big difference in our troubled world.
Dan begins the story feeling discouraged, while Annie and Zeke help him discover a new perspective. What did you want young readers to understand about changing difficult emotions?
I’ve been a therapist for nearly 20 years now, and I found that some people view difficult emotions like the weather. They believe the best they can do is get out their little umbrella and hope that it passes quickly. By teaching these positive psychology techniques, I’ve helped my students and my clients for years to realize that with a little bit of effort, they can improve their mood. It is incredibly empowering when you realize that there’s something that you can do to help yourself feel better. I felt like it was very important to instill this into our young people. Hopefully they take this skill home and teach it to their families. The next thing you know, happiness and optimism and resiliency are spreading throughout the country.
Annie shares a practice she learned from her grandfather. How did family wisdom and intergenerational connections influence the message of the book?
Well, I have to admit: in my personal family we’re a little short on intergenerational wisdom. So I’ll talk about my adopted family of positive psychology. In my class, Happiness 101, I often refer to Aunt Sonja, Aunt Barbara, and Uncle Dan. These are actually the giants of positive psychology: Sonja Lyubomirsky, Barbara Fredrickson, and Dan Gilbert. And in Positives, when Annie refers to Grandpa Marty, she’s alluding to Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology. There’s a ton of intergenerational wisdom there!
One of the things that I absolutely love about positive psychology is how it is supported by science. In fact, I think the scientific rigor for us to support what we’re saying is even more stringent. We want to prove the positive psychology interventions actually work. So, yeah, there’s tons and tons of research out there. If you want to read some books, I would highly recommend Martin Seligman’s book Flourish and, of course, Sonja Lybomirsky’s book, The How of Happiness, Barbara Frederickson’s Positivity, and Dan Gilbert’s book called Stumbling on Happiness.
What message do you hope young readers take away when they see Dan, Zeke, and Annie work through their feelings together?
My real hope for young readers is that they know they can improve their happiness – and that it is even better when you have other people to help support you. I want them to understand that they do not have to just be subject to whatever mood they are in – that they always have a choice!
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Positives is a heartwarming children’s book that teaches kids the proven “Three Good Things” exercise from positive psychology. Through a fun and relatable story, children learn how noticing good things in their lives can lift their mood, build resilience, and strengthen friendships.
Follow Dan, Zeke, and Annie—three kids who each struggle with their own challenges—as they discover the power of sharing “positives” together. With the help of Annie’s imaginary emotional support cat, Mr. Face, they learn that even small moments of gratitude can make a big difference.
This engaging story is based on the science of Dr. Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, and is designed to help children:
Feel happier and more hopeful
Build emotional resilience
Strengthen social connections
Practice gratitude in a fun, simple way
Positives is perfect for bedtime reading, classroom activities, or starting a new family tradition.
Give your child the tools to feel happier—one positive at a time.
