MeWeRTH’s Reading for Well-Being Community Book Club

Dr. Pozzulo interviews Dr. Marc Shultz co-author of   The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness  by Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schultz, Ph.D. (2023). Listen here: Libsyn:  https://readingforwellbeingpodcast.libsyn.com/ Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/4KZbuUv4gfnFPLyipUiYcC?si=fa0c70a9fac74450 Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/reading-for-well-being-podcast/id1771920126

    Professor Pozzulo’s Pick (Nov, 2024) Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton (2013, published by Simon & Schuster ) My Take:   Perhaps you’ve heard the adage, “money can’t buy happiness”? In Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending, Dunn and Norton (2013) explore whether spending money differently can impact happiness and well-being. Can people spend their money in “happier” ways? The short answer is…Yes! I was hesitant to make this book my pick because so many are finding it difficult to cover the essentials, such as housing and food, let alone have money for discretionary spending. By the time I finished the book, I changed my mind. The connection between well-being and money isn’t necessarily about having more money (although let’s face it, there are some advantages to having more money and everyone needs a certain amount of money to live), it is about how you spend the money you have. Let’s say you have $5 for discretionary spen

We’re giving away a copy of November's  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick.  Click on read more   then  click here to enter to win  or copy the web address and search it in your browser:  https://carleton.ca/mental-health/novembergiveaway/

    We’re giving away a copy of October's  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick.  Click on  read more   then  click here to enter to win  or copy the web address and search it in your browser:  https://carleton.ca/mental-health/october-giveaway/

  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick (October, 2024) Chatter: The voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it by Ethan Kross, (2021, published by Crown ) My Take:   Anyone who has found themselves lying awake in the middle of the night with endless thoughts of potential doom can likely relate to this book. I could! In Chatter: The voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it , Kross (2021) starts off by des cribing the negative loop in his head after receiving a threatening letter in his university mailbox. I don’t think you need to be a faculty member to appreciate the negative emotional response this type of letter would evoke; you start to think what it might mean for you and your family ’s safety and well-being . Ironically, this is a topic Kross knows about; he researches how the conversations we have with ourselves can impact how we live our lives. Through his research, Kross tries to understand how these conversations can be channeled to make peopl

   We’re giving away a copy of September's  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick.  Click on  read more   then  click here to enter to win  or copy the web address and search it in your browser:  https://carleton.ca/mental-health/september-giveaway/