Happiness Is Good Medicine (& How to Develop Happiness Habits) with Margie Bissinger

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

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