On the 10th episode of the Joy Superpowers series, we had the honor of hosting Erica Hornthal– known as the therapist who moves you and is a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed clinical professional counsellor. Erica is also...
Did you know that throughout history, music and dance have been used consistently as tools for healing and health (refers to as arts health) similar to the way that pharmacology and therapies are used today? Dance has also been used as a form of...
In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure to chat with Kim Jocelyn Dickson about the Joy Superpower of reading. Kim is a literature and writing teacher with 30 years of experience in the classroom. Her life-long love of books has inspired...
We all know it – technology has shaped our attention span so that now it’s almost equivalent to that of a goldfish. Reading a book without looking at your phone every two pages might feel like a challenge, even for people like me who...
For the 8th Joy Superpowers episode, we were joined by three lovely guests – Victor Perton, Nóirín Mosley and Jenny Boymal to discuss the superpower of optimism. Victor is the Chief Optimism Officer of The Centre of Optimism, thus his work centers...
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill Young people all over the world, especially in low and middle-income countries, are more optimistic...
This week, we got some wonderful insight from Ben Page about the Joy Superpower of Being in Nature. Ben is a forest therapy guide that has been guiding forest walks since 2015. He’s also the author of “Healing Trees: A Pocket Guide for...
I used to live in a very urban district where my window only had a view to the building on the other side of the street. Since I lived on the first floor, I could barely see the sky. Nowadays, my window has this beautiful view to lush green trees, I...
We worry…, all of us. Life goes fast and we are busy being busy. We worry before speaking in front of more people, we worry when we experience uncertainty or when we do something new or unknown, we worry about our jobs, finances, or relationships...
