EP56: Steve Leventhal on Resilience

Live Happy Now

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this episode Live Happy magazine science editor Paula Felps talks with Steve Leventhal, executive director of CorStone, about one of 10 practices for choosing joy: resilience. CorStone is an international nongovernmental organization that develops and provides personal resilience programs to improve well-being for youth worldwide, focusing on adolescent girls in developing countries as critical change-agents in their communities. CorStone believes that cultivating personal resilience is a foundational step in helping youth to thrive—one which is often missing in development programs worldwide. Its evidence-based programs impact three interdependent factors in well-being: emotional health, physical health and education.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome once again to the Live Happy Now podcast.
0:12.3	I'm your host, J.R. Houston.
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0:47.1	And in Live Happy's book, Live Happy, 10 practices for choosing joy, you can discover how
0:52.0	surprisingly easy everyday acts can lead to lifelong joy
0:55.0	and fulfillment as proven by the latest research in positive psychology. Now, the best part about
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1:04.7	you all about those components and what you need to do to apply them to your lives. And then,
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1:11.9	life inspirational stories from regular folks just like you and me and celebrities. And the book
1:17.2	is available online and in bookstores across the nation right now. You can go to
1:20.9	Choosingjoybook.com for more information if you would like to purchase it. Now in this episode, Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps spoke with Steve Leventhal on one of
1:30.9	10 practices for choosing joy, resilience.
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