Psychology and the Good Life
Humans have been writing about the best way to live for over 5,000 years across religion, philosophy, and now science. This podcast explores ideas about living and how science can help guide our choices.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2025
The Best is Yet to Come
This is it! The final episode! Congrats to all! In the last episode, we look back and we look forward to life lived well.
Feeling the Good Life
In our last week, we're talking about feelings and emotions and how they connect with the good life.
Strategies for Success
We're wrapping up our week on achievement with some strategies for successful goal striving.
Need to Achieve
In this episode, we discuss our need to achieve and what it means for the good life and I interview Dr. Josh Ode about goals, achievement, and identity in sports.
Engage!
In this episode, we're getting into the flow and making things happen! It's time to engage the good life!
Engaging the Good Life
"The good life is not for the faint hearted" but it is for the intrepid, for those who engage it. We'll discuss the benefits of engagement in the good life in this episode.
Purposeful Pivots
We are continuing to talk about about meaning and purpose in the good life. In this episode, I speak with a non-traditional student who reflects on the pivots she's made in her career and life to fol…
Mental Health and Meaning
In our first episode focusing on meaning and the good life, I speak with Dr. Travis Pashak about clinical psychology, existentialism, meaning making, and fruit.
Friends, Lovers, and Coworkers
We wrap up our mini-series on relationships with friends, lovers, and coworkers.
Family
In this first episode of a new mini-series, we explore the impact of families on the good life.
Movement
In the last episode of our mini-series on the mind-body connection for the good life, we discuss movement.
Nutrition
In the second of the three-part mini-series on the mind-body connect, we discuss nutrition's role in the good life.
A Long History
In this episode, we explore some of the philosophical and religious traditions in understanding the good life. I speak with Dr. Cory Potter (host of the Mind and Faith Matters podcast) about a Christ…
Modern Perspectives
In this episode, we transition from philosophy to modern psychological science in search of the good life.
Sleep and The Good Life
In this episode, we explore sleep and how it influences the aspects of the good life as outlined in the PERMA model of flourishing.
