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150. Corey Keyes: How to feel alive in a world that wears us down.
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Are you languishing? No idea what languishing is? No worries, the wonderful Corey Keyes is here to break it all down for you.
Corey Keyes is professor emeritus of Sociology at Emory University and a member of the prestigious international MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development and Aging. He has participated in several National Academies of Science initiatives – “The Future of Human Healthspan” and improving national statistics to measure recovery from mental illness.
He organized and co-hosted the first Summit of Positive Psychology held in 1999 at the Gallup Organization. His research introduced the concepts of social well-being, flourishing, the two continua model of mental health and illness, and his work is being used to prevent mental illness via the promotion of positive (flourishing) mental health. In 2024, he published a book entitled Languishing: How To Feel Alive Again In A World That Wears Us Down.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about…
What languishing looks like
How to know if you’re languishing
How languishing differs from depression
How psych meds can leave you languishing
Why current mental health treatments do not promote good mental health
How people can heal through natural recovery
The role the placebo effect plays in mental health healing
Why so many people are experiencing languishing
What it looks like to flourish
Why it’s important to be mentally healthy
The importance of being prepared for “the game of life”
How to go from languishing to flourishing
…and so much more!
Podcast show notes...
https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/corey-keyes-how-to-feel-alive-in
Join my courageous community on Substack...
https://courageouslyu.substack.com/
Hangout with me on Instagram...
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Manage episode 440366943 series 2785877
Are you languishing? No idea what languishing is? No worries, the wonderful Corey Keyes is here to break it all down for you.
Corey Keyes is professor emeritus of Sociology at Emory University and a member of the prestigious international MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development and Aging. He has participated in several National Academies of Science initiatives – “The Future of Human Healthspan” and improving national statistics to measure recovery from mental illness.
He organized and co-hosted the first Summit of Positive Psychology held in 1999 at the Gallup Organization. His research introduced the concepts of social well-being, flourishing, the two continua model of mental health and illness, and his work is being used to prevent mental illness via the promotion of positive (flourishing) mental health. In 2024, he published a book entitled Languishing: How To Feel Alive Again In A World That Wears Us Down.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about…
What languishing looks like
How to know if you’re languishing
How languishing differs from depression
How psych meds can leave you languishing
Why current mental health treatments do not promote good mental health
How people can heal through natural recovery
The role the placebo effect plays in mental health healing
Why so many people are experiencing languishing
What it looks like to flourish
Why it’s important to be mentally healthy
The importance of being prepared for “the game of life”
How to go from languishing to flourishing
…and so much more!
Podcast show notes...
https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/corey-keyes-how-to-feel-alive-in
Join my courageous community on Substack...
https://courageouslyu.substack.com/
Hangout with me on Instagram...
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