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Live Happy Now

How to Build Love that Lasts with Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James Pawelski

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

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

4.7522 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the movies, happily ever after comes pretty easily. In real life? Not so much. But the husband and wife team of Suzann Pileggi Pawelski, a writer with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and James Pawelski, Ph.D., professor of Practice and Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, have learned a few things about what it takes to be “Happy Together.” That’s the name of their new book, Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love that Lasts, and in this podcast they share the secrets of what it takes to create deep, lasting love.

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0:00.0

You found the right person, but now how do you find a way to make that happiness last?

0:05.6

Find out next on this episode of Live Happy Now.

0:09.1

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

0:15.1

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the

0:20.7

internet, believe it or not. We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a science and it's actually younger than the internet believe it or not we're all looking

0:23.2

for the same thing and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day join us as we look at

0:27.7

the many different paths that lead us to that happy place this is live happy now hello and welcome

0:33.3

to another edition of the live happy now podcast i I'm your host, Jeff Sanders, and I want

0:38.4

to thank you for making us part of your day today. This week, we're talking with two of Live

0:43.0

Happy's favorite people, Suzanne Susie Pellejee Pellewski and Dr. James Powelsky. They're married,

0:50.3

and they're also co-authors of the new book, Happy Together.

0:59.3

Susie has a Master's of Applied Positive Psychology degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a regular contributor to Live Happy magazine.

1:03.3

James is the director of education and a senior scholar in the Positive Psychology Center

1:08.3

at the University of Pennsylvania, where he co-founded the Masters of Applied Positive Psychology Program with Dr. Martin Seligman.

1:16.7

Live Happy CEO, Deborah Heise, talk with Susie and James about their new book

1:21.0

and how to be happier in our relationships.

1:24.8

Guys, thrilled to have you on the show today.

1:26.8

Thank you for joining us. Thanks so much for having us, Deborah. We're happy to be here. Thank you, Deborah. Great to be here. Well, so the first thing I want to ask you is how did you guys decide to write a book together? How did this come about? And then tell us a little bit about what the book's about. Well, we figured since we had the

1:45.2

perfect relationship, we'd write a book together and have a joke. I'm just kidding. Seriously, I think

1:54.1

we talked about for a while, you know, everybody gets really excited about, you know, finding that

1:59.5

special someone and then planning a big wedding.

2:03.8

And it seems like there's so much focus, especially now and, you know, popular culture about

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