DR AUDREY TANG
Chartered Psychologist | Award-Winning Author | Wellbeing Expert
Positive psychology that's not just about wellbeing, but about learning to BE well
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Audrey Tang
- Jul 22
- 6 min
INFORMAL wellbeing! (Circumvent your brain's resistance to change)
even if we are naturally pessimistic, we can “retrain” our brain to behave more positively by taking advantage of its neuroplasticity.
Audrey Tang
- May 17
- 5 min
We need to talk about "Toxic Positivity"
Toxic positivity, strangely enough, is something all of us might engage in without realising, often because it comes from a place of love...
Audrey Tang
- Apr 27
- 3 min
Simple tools to create a "Happy Life"
Seligman suggests 3 types of "happy life": Good, Meaningful and Pleasant...here's how to find them!
Audrey Tang
- Apr 23
- 3 min
Give a little love and it all comes back to you: quick positivity hack
Sending a genuine compliment, or giving heartfelt praise and appreciation to someone often causes a ripple effect
Audrey Tang
- Mar 22
- 7 min
Are we getting the mental HEALTH narrative wrong?
Could we reclaim mental HEALTH as inner strength, emotional fortitude and personal power so that we are PROUD to seek it?
Audrey Tang
- Mar 9
- 6 min
Appreciate the present as a gift...and live in it (it's the best way to affect the future!)
Ultimately, the only time we really have to create the future we want is right now.
Audrey Tang
- Jan 27
- 2 min
5 easy ways to boost your energy fast
Resilience is built by strengthening our own mental and emotional fitness. Boost yours with these simple ideas.
Audrey Tang
- Jan 21
- 6 min
While external support helps, learn to power up your own restorative emotional and mental strength
For all the practical skills we learned growing up; most of us have not been formally taught how to restore our sense of balance and harmony
Audrey Tang
- Jan 8
- 6 min
Helplessness in one area, doesn't mean helplessness in all - don't let your emotions overwhelm you
Whatever you are going through – it is your emotional & mental fortitude that will give you the push to keep going.
Audrey Tang
- Jan 7
- 8 min
The secret to Resilience: Build emotional & mental fortitude so emotions don't undermine efforts
Thus for resilience you need more than survival instinct – and some sort of practical capability, you need mental & emotional fortitude
Audrey Tang
- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
Dealing with depression at Christmas
The symptoms of depression don’t stop or start just because it’s Christmas.
Audrey Tang
- Dec 7, 2020
- 5 min
It's called "positive psychology" because of the PRESENCE of wellness - not the absence of illness
Positive psychology consists of the pro-active interaction in 5 areas:
Positive Emotion
Engagement
Relationships
Meaning
Accomplishment
Audrey Tang
- Nov 30, 2020
- 5 min
In some situations who you are far outweighs what you know. Build that.
Positive psychology as a practical approach to life about the times when who you ARE far outweighs what you know.
Audrey Tang
- Nov 27, 2020
- 5 min
Thriving is NOT simply "being able to deal with it". Use positive psychology for BEING well
Learn the art of BEING well!
Audrey Tang
- Nov 24, 2020
- 9 min
How positive psychology tools bridge the gap between thinking it, and being strong enough to do it!
Positive psychology tools engage the mind encouraging change from the top down, by simple behaviour interventions
Audrey Tang
- Nov 19, 2020
- 6 min
Make wellbeing & mental health a workplace priority
Setting boundaries protects emotional strength when you do so & for a leader sets and example of their commitment to wellbeing
Audrey Tang
- Oct 27, 2020
- 8 min
My stress management routine (mitigate then manage)
As long as we learn how to manage it, stress is not necessarily a bad thing! FURTHER, managing it becomes all the easier if we mitigate it
Audrey Tang
- Oct 18, 2020
- 7 min
Resilience is learning to play the LONG game. Life is the long game.
Look around you, right now, and you will notice some people may be coping that little bit better than others. Why?
Audrey Tang
- Sep 17, 2020
- 5 min
Positive psychology - the Pollyanna of psych?
positive psychology - the "science of happiness" - currently sits hand in hand with traditional mental health interventions.
All articles offer theory and explanation of the topic followed by PRACTICAL TOOLS to support you.
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