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Episode 86: We’re Back – PP Tools Pre, During and Post Pandemic

September 8, 2022 by Emily Felt

We’re Back! Positive Psychology Tools Pre, During & Post Pandemic: Science Says 
In this Science Says episode Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, CEO & Founder of The Flourishing Center, shares what The Flourishing Center has been up to for the past year. She also dives into the opportunities brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic for pause and pivot. She shares a recently published study on how positive psychology has played a role in helping people cope with Covid, plus 9 strategies that can help you rebuild now!

What we’ve been up to at The Flourishing Center

It’s so good to be back after our pandemic pause! The pandemic has brought obstacles, lessons and even opportunities for many around the world, including TFC! In order to support people during this rough time, we created Better Than Before, a program to help people get through the pandemic. We later merged it into our Lift Program, which we created like a gym membership to help people build a daily practice of positive psychology.

New research on the role of positive psychology during the pandemic

Positive psychology was fundamental in helping people cope with and recover from the pandemic. In this Science Says episode, Emiliya draws from the research findings from a study published in 2022 in the Journal of Positive Psychology. The study was authored by some of the most well-known researchers in the field, including Lea Waters, Sara B. Algoe, Jane Dutton, Robert Emmons, Barbara L. Fredrickson, Emily Heaphy, Judith T. Moskowitz, Kristin Neff, Ryan Niemiec, Cynthia Pury and Michael Steger!

9 strategies for how positive psychology can help us rebuild post pandemic

The study explored 3 overall areas (the 3B’s) by which positive psychology supported wellbeing during the pandemic: buffering, bolstering and boosting. These include 9 strategies that people used during covid-19 and that we can continue to use today. 1) meaning, 2) coping, 3) self-compassion, 4) courage, 5) gratitude, 6) use of character strengths, 7) positive emotions, 8) positive interpersonal processes, and 9) high quality connections.

How you can apply these 9 strategies to your life

Emiliya offers the opportunity to reflect on these 9 strategies through the following questions:

  1. How am I using meaning making to make sense of this experience? How can I make my life more meaningful?
  2. How can I can use coping skills like a positive appraisal to shift my thinking to thoughts that are empowering, that generate positive emotions?
  3. Where can I benefit from greater self-compassion?
  4. Where am I holding myself back from taking action I want to take? How can I find willingness to act stronger than my fear?
  5. How can I deepen my experience of gratitude for what I have?
  6. How am I using my strengths right now? Are there strengths that I want or need to develop that can help me at this time in my life?
  7. How can I savor and get more positivity out of my day-to-day experiences?
  8. How can I deepen the quality of my relationships even more? Have certain relationships faded a bit during the past few years? How can I rekindle connection?
  9. How can I build more moments of connection, or energy between myself and others, even in little moments?
For more information on our programs visit The Flourishing Center at:  www.theflourishingcenter.com

Link to study: Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2022).


Welcome to Science Says (SS), where every episode highlights a research study in the field of positive psychology. Tune in to discover the science of human flourishing while Emiliya Zhivotovskaya teaches you how to put your new, science-based knowledge into action… because science says!

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