Being a radio guest of Velma Gallant, the Queen of Joy, was a true treat. She is a marvelous radio host, who knows how to elicit from her guest so much information. I felt like my expertise as a positive psychologist and as an educator was just pouring out of me as we chatted about […]
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The Girl in The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) goes to China
The big news at The Enchanted Self is that The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) will be published in China this summer. It is being published by a University Press and will be sold to schools and children and teenagers. It will be in both English and Chinese so that […]
The Girl in The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) shares her secret entry about Valentine’s Day!
February 14 Today was Valentine’s Day. I was so worried. Valentine’s Day is almost the worst day of the year for me. That’s because the day can be terrible. There is nothing worse in the world than not getting enough Valentine’s in class. And being in love makes it even worse. All I could think […]
What Does Valentine’s Day Mean to You?
Valentine’s Day is coming up. What does that mean to you? I have found that as a psychologist I hear many different reactions to Valentine’s Day. Some women love the day. Usually they are women with a significant other than remembers special days, like birthdays. Some women hate the day. Sometimes they have a partner […]
New Year Resolution: Be True to Yourself and Help Your Daughter to Be True to Herself
My wish for you on New Year’s Eve is that the one resolution you will really keep this year, even more than your diet, is to be true to yourself. And if you have a daughter, help and encourage her to be true to herself. I wrote The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and […]
The Truth is Resiliency is Important in Growing Up! Dr.Prince-Embury shares this knowledge with Dr. Holstein on archived podcast shows, Happiness for Women Only and Kids, Tweens and Teens, A positive psychologist looks at all three
One reason I wrote The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) is to show girls how resilient they naturally are. To learn to recognize their coping powers and their abilities to overcome obstacles and have fun in the process, by identifying with the girl in the book. As she says on […]
Tell me The Truth, what do you want in the second edition of THE TRUTH (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything)?
It really is true. There is plenty of room and a real need for fiction books for girls, tweens and teens that incorporate positive psychology principles. And I’m thrilled that I wrote the first book in this new field. In fact, the book is selling so fast that I am already thinking about reprinting. The Truth (I’m […]
The Truth is that The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) contains within it The Enchanted Self.
The Truth is that The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything), my new book, contains within it the same truths that make up The Enchanted Self. At first you might not believe that, as my first book The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy was for women and clinicians. This book is for […]