Season 3, episode 6: stuck on the staircase

“It’s going to be okay, my little dumpling. This is hard, but we’re going to get through this together.”

— Grace Davis, age seven

How do we move from languishing to flourishing even when things are not okay?

Languishing has become a buzzword of 2021, a name for the “blah” feeling that has cast a gray light over so much of life. But as the months wear on and the term “post-pandemic” becomes increasingly irrelevant, perhaps we need a term—or a whole vocabulary—to capture the complexity of the very different ways that we are experiencing this time.

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Show notes:

• There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing by Adam Grant.

• Tara Brach’s RAIN: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture

• A Languishing–Flourishing Model of Goal Striving and Mental Health for Coaching Populations

• The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing. Here’s How to Get There.

• The Harvard Flourishing Program

• The mental health continuum: from languishing to flourishing in life 

• Emotional vaccine: 3 ways we can move from ‘languishing’ to ‘flourishing’ in these testing times

• Languishing vs. Flourishing - How to Beat the Feeling "Blah" Blues

• How a 'beginners’ mindset' can help you learn anything

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• Episode transcript

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