Is your inner critic stopping you from seeing your unique strengths, assets, and possibilities for your future?

Have you been feeling down, dissatisfied, or unfulfilledinone or more areas of life?

Are you feeling overwhelmed or anxious about multiple responsibilities and challenges?

Are you looking for moreenergy, balance, meaning, or happiness in your life?

I'm also a Nationally Certified Psychologist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Professional Life & Career Coach, Certified Positive Psychology Coach, andCertified Positive Discipline Parent Educatorwho is passionate about continuousself-growth and helping my clients achieve their goals and find happiness.

Within Positive Psychology, I found and continue to find powerfully impactfulstrategiesfortransforming my life and outlook.

I'd love to help YOU beginseeing all the good in yourself, others, and life, so you can accomplish your personal and professional dreams. I work with adults ages 18 to 80+ across the globe via Skype, phone, and in person for NJ locals, specializing in working with and empowering women.

Having lived a transformationalchange in my own way of thinking, feeling, and being, I believewholeheartedly in our ability tocompletelyalter ourperceptions, emotions, and actions, andessentiallytransform our lives.

Positive Psychology concepts have saved my life. For me Positive Psychology has become a way of life--I teach itat Rutgers University, coach my clients in its strategies, write about it, parent by it, anduse it daily to keep me on track to all the places I wish to journey.

I'm really looking forward to working with you to help YOUget from where you are to where you want to be!

~ Colleen 🙂

Seligman, a self-confessed pessimist by nature, spent his early career studying learned hopelessness, until an encounter with his five-year old daughter led him to shift his personal and professional endeavors.

While weeding in the garden one day, Seligmans daughter Nikki was throwing weeds into the air, singing, and dancing. Seligman reacted by yelling at her, to which Nikki responded, Daddy, I want to talk to you. Daddy, do you remember my before my fifth birthday? From when I was three until when I was five, I was a whiner. I whined every day.On my fifth birthday, I decided I wasnt going to whine any more.That was the hardest thing Ive ever done. And if I can stop whining, you can stop being such a grump (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). In this moment, Seligman recognized three critical things: (1) Parenting is not about fixing childrens weaknesses, but about identifying and fostering their strengths, (2) He could do more than simply endure life as a pessimist, he could immerse himself in the beauty of all he had, learn to be optimistic, and flourish in life, and (3) The field of psychology needed a major shift from simply diagnosing and treating what ails people, to taking the next step to uncover peoples internal and external strengths and resources, and helping them leverage these to live meaningful, satisfying lives.

It is important to note that Positive Psychology coaching is NOT about feeling happy 100% of the time, ignoring weaknesses and problems, or never experiencing negative emotions like sadness or anger. Life will always include little daily stressors, busy schedules and competing priorities, roadblocks to our plans, and traumatic experiences.To be cheery and smiling in the midst of such experiences 24/7 would be robotic, not human. Authenticity and experiencing a range of emotions is normal and healthy. What Positive Psychology coaching IS about, is learning how to experience negative emotions and move through them more quickly and healthily, so they do not immobilize us. It IS about taking the time to embrace and savor the positive we hold within us, in those around us, and in the lives we are already living.

Since Positive Psychologys inception, there has been extensive research on the practices that enhance well-being, including leveraging strengths, seeking meaning and engagement, expressing gratitude, practicing kindness, experiencing forgiveness and self-compassion, maintaining positive relationships, and continuous goal-setting. These are some of the areas we will work on together through Positive Psychology Life Coaching.

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