Barbara Becker Holstein

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***Helping Our Children Overcome Adversity, Feel Good About Themselves and Create Positive Memories for Later

We have so much influence over the next generation! Lots of times we forget how much influence, as our children or grandchildren can appear to ignore us, forget us or even worse--run from us in one way or another. Sometimes, we must just accept the fact that lots of times positive actions happen ...

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***Designing A Life - We Each Get The Chance

As we pass through the Seven Gateways to Happiness again and again and become a true Enchanted Self, we see that life is all about living and then telling and retelling the stories of our lives to get the most positive juice from our stories. If we know how to 'juice' the richness out of life, ...

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***Sometimes Furnishings are the Gateway to Enchantment

I remember when I was a child how much I loved my grandmother Rose Silverman's furniture and her household goods. They were not just the functional plastic items, earthenware and stuffed sofas that most families had when I grew up. All of the furniture and things in her apartment were 'alive' ...

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***Happiness, The Secret Ingredient Is You!

How do we overcome adversity? How do we create a life worth living? How do we manage to have more positive than negative emotions? How do we get happy and how do we stay happy, most of the time? See the answer below! Discovered: The Secret Ingredient to Happiness is Ourselves! As many of you ...

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***We All Need A Dose Of Inspiration The Hatpin

We all need a sense of wonder and mystery in our lives. Sometimes a fast paced adventure movie or a good mystery read will satisfy that urge inside of ourselves. But sometimes we need to reach into the past and see that all through the centuries people have reported strange phenomenon, and of ...

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***Positive Fingerprints And Shadow Prints Of The Mind

This article contains an excerpt from my book, THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy. The message is so important to all of us attempting to overcome adversity and to live a live of meaning and joy. I hope you enjoy the following and please try the exercise that follows. Time continues to ...

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The Wise Older Woman

Awhile ago, I attended a beautiful wedding. A young Jewish couple came together in joy and the room was filled with happiness. Outside of the banquet room I noticed a group of older women sitting near the door collecting charity. They all looked very pure and plain at the same time, young seniors and older seniors, nothing fancy about them. Their hips were full. They were wearing comfortable walking shoes and somewhat frumpy looking clothing. There wore either wigs or kerchiefs.

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***An Enchanter: The Gabbie Cabbie

Finding out how to live a life worth living and being able to overcome the adversities that befall all of us in a normal lifetime, while also experiencing enough positive emotions to feel happy much of the time, may sound like a tough assignment. But if you can just be true to yourself and ...

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***Becoming An Enchanted Self

How do we obtain a life worth living? How do we overcome adversity? How can we experience positive emotions? How do we stay in good mental health? These are serious questions and to briefly answer them would be unfair to the reader. But I can say as a positive psychologist, working in the ...

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***Fairy Tales Can Come True

In private moments we may find ourselves reflecting upon our lives, what could have been, how we might have overcome adversity, and our true potential. We often cast our hopes and dreams aside, and then experience feelings of disillusionment or emptiness. We feel cheated of our inalienable ...

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***The Enchantment Of Tribes To Belong To

I am remembering and have a desire to share with you, a beautiful story told to me by a young lady. This story fills me with positive emotions. It was the end of the World War II and her dad was returning home. He came from a very close network of Italian families that lived near each other in ...

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***Moving Toward the Promised Land

Personal freedom is essential for happiness, for mental well-being and to feel comfortable as an Enchanted Self - someone able to access positive states of meaning again and again, while living a life of meaning and purpose. In the past I have talked about the Exodus from Egypt as a metaphorical ...

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thetruthforgirls

This site is for tweens, teens, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, grandparents, and girls to gain information about growing up strong and resilient.

January 8, 2013

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next-year-in-jerusalem

This site has lots of essays, blogs and secret discussions between characters in Next Year in Jerusalem!, Dr. Holstein's new romance, mystery novel. A fun site to relax in fantasy and positive psychology ideas.

January 8, 2013

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Enchanted Self - Home of Positive Psychology for Women

Learn more about Positive Psychology and your Enchanted Self on Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein's website. A variety of tools, books, articles, video, and more await you as you begin your journey into rediscovering the best of yourself...and ultimately, your Enchanted Self.

November 3, 2008

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The Enchanted Self

I've taught many people, how to enhance their lives by reclaiming what is positive about themselves. This is different from the traditional psychotherapeutic model because it is a paradigm shift designed to help us focus on our abilities and our strengths rather than our disabilities and our weaknesses.

October 7, 2008

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The Enchanted Self

September 23, 2007