Welcome to episode 187 of Live Happy Now.

This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

As a new year approaches, our thoughts are starting to turn to how we want to improve our lives over the next 12 months.

This week, we're talking with Megan McDonough of the Wholebeing Institute, who explains how the principles of Spire can help us live with greater ease and develop new skills that can lead to greater creativity, better health, and happier living.

Then she'll explain how we can learn those new skills as we move into the new year.

Well, Megan, welcome to the show.

I know you've been a guest before, and I'm really excited to have you here today and talk about whole being happiness.

My pleasure. I'm so glad to be here with you, Paula. Thanks for asking me.

Absolutely. I saw that you had this whole being happiness course, and it just seemed like such a great thing, something our listeners would love to learn more about. And so I do want to have

you talk about that. But instead of putting the cart before the horse, I wanted to, before we

start talking about that, can you explain to us what you mean by whole being? Yeah. So that word

whole being is a mashup of two words. Whole person and well-being, whole being.

So here's the deal.

You know, most of the time when we think about human flourishing,

we may only look at, say, one or two things,

either, you know, eat well in exercise or perhaps in positive psychology,

looking at positive emotions.

But in whole being, it really asks a question,

what is the holistic or multidimensional ways in which we think of human flourishing?

And that indeed is what we mean by whole being, that bigger view.

I love that concept because I do think that too often times we could. mean by whole being, that bigger view.

I love that concept because I do think that too often times we compartmentalize different areas of our lives and your approach really brings it all together.

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