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I'm delighted to have the chance to introduce you to Kelly Stack this week,
a certified holistic health coach and
author of the forthcoming book, Flourishing With Chronic Illness.
Now this week you've learned about the health benefits of
positivity resonance and have had the chance to try
out loving kindness meditation as part of your experiential homework.
Now Kelly puts these ideas of positive psychology into practice, both in
her own life and as she helps others find their unique road map to health.
Now, Kelly, can you tell us how you first got interested in positive psychology and
making it part of your life's work?
>> Well, I was majoring in psychology in college, and
[COUGH] they introduced for the first time this positive psychology course.
And before that I had just been taking the regular things like
abnormal psychology and learning about what was wrong with people [COUGH].
And this just sounded like such a different approach, and so
I signed up for the course [COUGH].
And as it happened, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
right before that semester started, that was going to be my senior year in school.
And it, of course, caught me completely off guard.
It's a very serious illness, potentially debilitating, and
I didn't know anything about it.