Happiness Is Good Medicine (& How to Develop Happiness Habits) with Margie Bissinger
The Wellness Mama Podcast
Katie Wells
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Episode Highlights With Margie Bissinger
- Happiness is an inner state of health and peace that is not dependent on your circumstances
- It is also living your life in color
- What our “then I would be happy” stories can teach us
- Our base level of happiness, and how we can change it
- Why only a small amount of what contributes to happiness is external
- Is happiness selfish?
- How happiness is contagious, and how this helps those around you
- Happiness habits you can develop and strengthen
- The importance of being a victor and not a victim in life, and how this is an inner shift
- How to be solution-focused instead of problem-focused
- What blaming, shaming, and complaining are indicators of
- About 80% of an average person’s thoughts are negative and how to shift this
- Better questions to ask internally to curate the good in your life
- Good happiness habits we can help our kids have from a young age
- How to recalibrate if you are around negativity from other people
- Her 5-step approach to developing the happiness habit
Resources We Mention
- Happy Me Happy Life - Use code wellnessmama for 50% off
- Free 7-Day Happiness Habits Journal and 7-minute morning meditation
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Transcript
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