Dr Jolanta Burke

Positive Psychology for Life

Hello! Thank you for your interest.

“I am a wellbeing researcher and good life storyteller. I give a voice to people who thrive to help us all live a good life.”

Sample of my Books

Go to Amazon.co.uk

Go to Amazon.co.uk

Go to Amazon.co.uk

Go to Amazon.co.uk

Go to Amazon.co.uk

Go to Amazon.co.uk

Sample of my Articles

  • WHY SOME PEOPLE FIND IT HARDER TO BE HAPPY

    Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences The self-help industry is booming, fuelled by research on positive psychology – the scientific study of what makes people flourish. At the same time, the rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm continue to soar worldwide. So are we doomed to be unhappy, despite these advances in…

  • HOW TO REMAIN YOUTHFUL AND RESILIENT DESPITE STRESS

    Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Padraic J. Dunne, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences A bit of stress can be good for your mental and physical wellbeing, but too much can lead to anxiety, depression and other health problems. It can also make you age faster. So learning to…

  • LANGUISHING: WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE FEELING RESTLESS, APATHETIC OR EMPTY

    Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences If you’ve been feeling restless, apathetic or even emotionally empty since the pandemic began, you may be “languishing”. Languishing is described as an emotional state of limbo, aimlessness and low mood, which can last for a long time. But while languishing isn’t itself considered a mental…

Follow me on Instagram

@JolantaBurke

"When I get overwhelmed, I journal - first, I write down everything that upsets me. Then, I flip it and write what makes me happy, what went well, what I'm grateful for." When people say "Life's Good", they don't mean it is perfect. Attention medical professionals, health coaches, and educators interested in Positive Health. Accomplishments are not always good for us. Not all relationship problems can be resolved. A stress-is-debilitating mindset means that you dread stressful situations and think stress is bad for you. When it happens, your behaviour stops you from coping with stress effectively. Here is what you tend to do: "Forgiveness is one of the most misunderstood concepts in psychology. Often, when people say they do not want to forgive, what they mean is that they condemn what has happened to them and do not want to offer a pardon to the person who did them wrong. However, forgiveness is not about the perpetrator, it is about the self; the perpetrator is irrelevant. You can experience forgiveness at two distinct levels: "When everything else fails, hope prevails. Without hope, we cannot get up, dust ourselves off, and keep going. Hope is an essential ingredient for coping. The difference between optimism and hope is significant. Optimism gives us the expectation that everything will work out well. Hope, however, gives us the will and the way to keep going in a specific direction. It is a mixture of agency thinking and clear pathway thinking that helps us get there (Snyder, 1994). Agency thinking is about maintaining the energy to pursue our dreams and goals and keep the motivation going. It is about saying to ourselves that we can do it, we have all it takes to do it, and firmly believing that we can keep going, even when we face obstacles. Pathway thinking relates to developing a clear route towards accomplishing our goals. For example, it is not enough to say that you want to become a famous singer. Instead, to create a pathway, we need to develop a route for getting there: attending voice classes, practising daily, signing up to a choir, and similar activities. When we have the goal and the pathway towards it developed and then have the agency thinking clarified, we will experience hope. Thus, hope is far from wishful thinking. It is, in fact, the opposite. It is a plan and a belief that we have what it takes to sustain the energy to keep going and ultimately reach it." "We practice various types of kindness:

Subscribe

Contact
Privacy
Terms & Conditions