Invitation to Thrive
Intro to Thriving: A Practice of Becoming
Thriving isn’t something we achieve—it is the fullness we experience from a daily practice of investing in our spiritual health. It happens when we create space to slow down and open fresh eyes to the people and world around us.
Decades of research reveal immense psychological benefits available through spirituality and faith. By putting knowledge into practice, we learn to pay attention to our deepest human needs, strengthen our connection to transcendence and community, and grow from healing to whole both for ourselves and for the sake of others.
Join us in exploring what follows and find how spiritual practices create breathing room for thriving to become possible.
What does it mean to truly thrive?
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From healing to whole
We have developed a research-backed, six-part framework using our name, Thrive, that encapsulates categories, or “facets,” that have emerged as important components of healthy spirituality. The THRIVE facets are an invitation to explore what it means to grow and thrive.
Transcendence & Spirituality
Awareness of and connection to a source of invigorating love offers meaning and inspires purpose. For many this is God, for others it may be a higher power or nature.
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Habits & Rhythms
Healthy spiritual practices and regular rhythms allow us to slow down to gain insight, connect to love, and energize into purposeful endeavors.
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Habits & Rhythms
Healthy spiritual practices and regular rhythms allow us to slow down to gain insight, connect to love, and energize into purposeful endeavors.
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Relationships & Community
Connections provide a space of belonging where we can be fully known to ourselves and others and learn to give and receive love.
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Identity & Narrative
Growing in clarity about who we are as a beloved, unique, embodied person and how we are related to others and the greater world.
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Vocation & Purpose
Contributing our strengths to the world by living out our response to love.
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Ethics & Virtues
Our beliefs about love and how we live out love through values, views of right and wrong, and cultivating virtuous habits.
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Transcendence & Spirituality
Awareness of and connection to a source of invigorating love offers meaning and inspires purpose. For many this is God, for others it may be a higher power or nature.
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The Thrive Center Podcast
With & For
A Podcast on Spiritual Health, Wholeness, and a Life of Thriving
We’re eager to grow into a life of fullness and discovery. Conversations with experts that plumb the depths of psychological science and spiritual wisdom to offer practical guidance towards spiritual health, wholeness, and a life of thriving.
A Psychology-Backed Framework for Healthy Spirituality
Dr. Pam King discusses why spirituality is so essential to the human experience, and how it operates as the antidote to the culture of anxiety and despair around us.
Intro: A New Podcast on Spiritual Health, Wholeness, and a Life of Thriving
What does it mean to thrive today? What can we do to pursue lives of wholeness and spiritual health?
Cultivating a Healthy Mind: The Neuroscience of Awareness, Connection, Insight, & Purpose with Dr. Richie Davidson
What is a healthy mind? Dr. Richie Davidson’s mission is to cultivate wellbeing as a skill, and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the human mind.
The Science of Relationships: Healing, Emotion, & Connection with Drs. Sue Johnson & Jim Furrow
Psychologists Sue Johnson & Jim Furrow are helping us understand more about the science of relationships, the role that emotions play in healing conflict, and how our human connectedness impacts human thriving.
A Practice: Dr. Lisa Miller on Closing Doors so Others Can Open
Dr. Miller leads you through a practice where you imagine two doors – one red and one yellow. How can you use this practice to understand opportunities and direction for your life?
How to Navigate Life: Psychological Tools to Find Your Purpose with Dr. Belle Liang
Are you looking for a sense of purpose? Does it feel like you’ve lost your way? Purpose is a vital part of our spiritual health.
Backed by research
The mind behind the method
We hold that science can provide insight needed to understand spiritual health and develop practices that lead to thriving in everyday life. We’re researchers and psychologists that live real lives and come face to face with the same questions you have.
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