Category Archives: Children & Happiness

Happiness and Health

Definition of Wellbeing as positive peaks of peace, friendliness, physical wellbeing, happiness, mastery, a model of health that meets Jahoda’s 6 criteria for Positive Mental Health, definition of spheres of happiness and health Continue reading

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Positive Definition of Health and Mental Health

The Positive Mental Health Foundation site presents the latest on happiness and health, positive mental health, psychological needs and positive definitions of health and wellbeing: self (self definition), intimacy (love definition) and achievement (work definition). Explore a new personality model, optimal health, stress types, life purpose, life way, life questions, science of happiness and more. Continue reading

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Where Health and Entertainment Meet

“Today’s busy adults and curious kids need to be entertained. They are not going to be found pondering over health pamphlets, working through a stress management program, or reading self help books, unless they already have a life changing problem and are in real pain. By then its often too late. The divorce has happened, the kids are hanging out with the wrong crowd or addicted to drugs, and one’s job has become so stressful that you don’t sleep well at night,” says author and illustrator, Nathalie Ishizuka. Continue reading

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Spheres of Psychological Health: What Makes Us Happy?

Wellness is not the absence of disease. It is the presence of something — the question is of what? Continue reading

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