Happiness is an Option: 5 Easy Ways to Live with More Joy and Less Fear

If you’ve ever scrolled through your news feed and felt anxious, or browsed Instagram and Facebook looking at pictures of people’s perfect lives – and felt WORSE – this is a podcast for you.

According to our guests, Dr. Lynda Ulrich, and her Harvard grad daughter, Liesl Ulrich-Verderber, you can reshape your worldview with five easy shifts that will allow you to thrive in these chaotic times:

• Finding the right ratio: Why keeping up with the news doesn’t need to mean feeling overwhelmed.
• Voting with your click: The power we have to vote with our mouse and remote to control the content making it to the top.
• Social without the media: How to use social media as a tool to build bridges and tear down walls while avoiding the prevalent toxic aspects of popular platforms
• The Mindset Makeover: Why society has conditioned us to focus on the negative aspects of the world over the positive ones, and how to give your state of mind a 180-degree makeover.
• The Conspiracy of Goodness: The surprising mood lift you’ll find from approaching situations with compassion, especially during difficult times, and how we can spread positivity in our communities and online.

We sit down with this amazing mother-daughter duo who founded the website, Ever Widening Circles, a global effort to change the negative dialogue about our times. Dr. Ulrich is also the author of the new book, Happiness is an Option: Thriving and Surviving in the Era of the Internet, which is about finding balance in today’s world.