2009
While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's copter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.
105 min
CLEAR ALL
This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.
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Amaii Collins is a student at Rufus King International High School in Milwaukee. She has struggled with depression and a suicide attempt. She has heard other young people talk about their struggles and their improvements because they talked to someone.
What is love? How do positive emotions affect our bodies and minds? Can we actively increase our own and our children's capacity for love? What are the implications for parents and teachers?
Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives. Using research from her own lab, Barbara L. Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micro-moments of connection between people—even strangers.
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Maslow intuitively predicted the latest findings from positive psychology.
Positive psychology pioneer Martin Seligman says people who are high catastrophizers – those who tend to assume the worst when something bad occurs – are three times as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder than low catastrophizers.