Abimbola (Abi) Tschetter (MAPP ’22) is a enterprise author, editor, and
advisor based mostly north of Seattle on Whidbey Island. She is an editor of
MAPP Journal, the publication of the alumni of the College of Pennsylvania
Grasp of Utilized Constructive Psychology program.

Abi’s articles are right here.

Meals and household are sometimes on the coronary heart of our vacation gatherings, traditions, and celebrations. Many contend that the latter, that’s {our relationships}, are central to well-being. However it’s simply in recent times that optimistic psychology analysis means that meals could also be as effectively.

Within the latest problem of MAPP Journal, the alumni publication of the College of Pennsylvania Grasp of Utilized Constructive Psychology program, we’re happy to function a group of articles exploring these subjects and this month’s theme: Meals, Household, and Flourishing.

The mission of MAPP Journal is first to maintain College of Pennsylvania Grasp of Utilized Constructive Psychology Program (MAPP) alumni linked, and second to share the big selection of our purposes of optimistic psychology with a broader viewers to encourage collaboration and progress within the area.

You will discover previous articles from MAPP Journal on-line and even older points within the MAPP Journal Archives. To have the most recent articles despatched to you by electronic mail, subscribe to the MAPP Journal.

The wonders of pie

Our sustenance: From scraps to soul meals, a optimistic establishment

Soul meals is a lot extra than simply meals. It’s a triumphal narrative id. In this text, amid a heartwarming narrative of meals, religion, and household, Frank Jackson (MAPP ’21) explores the historic and up to date position of meals within the Black group—as a storyteller, a logo of resilience and spirituality, a thread connecting previous to current and future, and sustenance for the soul.

Household Meal

Nourishing our bodies and enhancing relationships: The facility of shared meals

Michal Levison (MAPP ’22) contends that the shared meal, a transcendent human ritual, provides alternatives not just for bodily vitamin however maybe extra importantly, for relational nourishment. In this exploration, Levison backs her assertions with compelling analysis, provides a 4-part recipe to strengthen relationships, and tells shifting tales of how connections throughout a desk have actually saved lives.

Getting ready meals

Pathways to well-being via cooking for household and mates

In case you’re stressing over the upcoming holidays and feeling extra overwhelmed than excited in regards to the prospects of getting ready vacation meals, this text is for you! Learn on for five fast suggestions from prepare dinner and coach, Tracey Specter (MAPP ’18), about learn how to have extra enjoyable and fewer stress as you prepare dinner for others this vacation season. Be on the look ahead to Tracey’s upcoming cookbook.

Scrumptious Mexican Meals

Happiness is edible: Why happiness additionally comes from {our relationships} with meals

In Mexican tradition and all over the world, oft-cited proverbs generally hyperlink meals to flourishing. In this piece, via private vignettes and organizational anecdotes, Luis Pineda (MAPP ’14) shares how meals and consuming can perform as joyful and bonding practices that profoundly contribute to well-being.

Dr. Paul Rozin

On meals and flourishing | Reflections from Dr. Paul Rozin

Learn reflections from food-and-flourishing skilled, Paul Rozin, PhD, in this text.  From his years of analysis on organic, psychological, and anthropological views on the variations in human meals selections throughout cultures, Dr Rozin provides options of how we will leverage meals to advertise extra flourishing in life.

For extra on these and different real-world purposes of optimistic psychology, go to MAPP Journal. To subscribe to the MAPP Journal so that you just get new editions in your electronic mail, click on right here.

References

Rozin, P., Kabnick, Ok., Pete, E., Fischler, C., & Shields, C. (2003). The ecology of consuming: A part of the French paradox outcomes from decrease meals consumption in French than Individuals, due to smaller portion sizes. Psychological Science, 14, 450-454.

Rode, E., Rozin, P., & Durlach, P. (2007). Skilled and remembered pleasure for meals: Period neglect however minimal peak-end results. Urge for food, 49, 18-29.

Picture Credit

Buddies getting ready a meal – featured picture courtesy of Kelsey Likelihood on Unsplash

The wonders of pie picture courtesy of Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

Household consuming collectively picture by Jimmy Dean on Unsplash

Chopping greens picture courtesy of Alyson McPhee on Unsplash

Mexican meals picture courtesy of We the Creators on Unsplash

Paul Rozin image courtesy of the Middle for Well being Incentives and Behavioral Economics at Penn