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Parade Magazine: “Take Back Your Weekend” by Amy Wood

These days, managing your weekend is like running a marathon at a sprinter’s pace—with a stagger across the finish line on Sunday night. Too many people aren’t enjoying themselves on the weekends. Read this article to learn how to take back your weekend.

Navigating Negativity: 4 Ways to Be Properly Optimistic in the Workplace

As any astute HR professional knows, too much negativity is draining, deflating, and downright depressing in the workplace. But too much positivity can lead to denial, avoidance, and dangerous oversights. The key is to strike a healthy balance between needless catastrophizing and inflated confidence.

5-Minute Mood Boosters

Beat the blues in a flash with these eight cheer-up techniques.

Reviews & Awards for Life Your Way by Dr. Amy Wood

Featured Review

“Life Your Way by Amy Wood is the “real deal,” an authentic self-help book with an inviting professional style that is indubitably inspiring and downright rational—a pearl of practical wisdom among the swells of personal transformation writings flooding the information age.”

–The US Review of Books

Awards

"Life Your Way" received the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award in the Self-Help category for 2012.

Top 12 Spirited Woman Book Pick List

Purchase

Buy “Life Your Way” by Dr. Amy Wood on Amazon

All Placements

What does it mean to be resilient, and how do you cultivate it in the face of difficult times?

This show is the first in our series of shows about resilience in the face of difficult times.

What resilience is, what components it involves, and why it’s essential in a fast-moving, high-pressure culture, particularly during a pandemic.

Listen to this Podcast on Maine Public

Want To Be Happier? Admit Your Anger

There’s plenty to be mad about as an attorney – too much
work, not enough support, lack of control over the court
system. That’s not to mention the broader issues of disease,
abuse, and prejudice, for starters.

Read this article in the Maine Bar Journal.

Helping clients uncover emotional intelligence is key to therapist’s work

At the base of everything that a therapist does, helping patients to reach a level of emotional balance is key. There may be many modalities used in the therapy room, from CBT to psychodynamic therapy, but the bottom line is to help clients get there.

Read this article on New England Psychologist

The value of connection in our lives

Singer-songwriter Noel Paul Stookey, NPR host Diane Rehm, Maine CDC director Nirav Shah and psychologist Amy Wood discuss why human connection is so important—especially in light of the pandemic.