Potential Psychology

This episode of the Potential Psychology Podcast is brought to you by the Wellbeing Evidence and Horizons Conference, Australia's leading multi-disciplinary, evidence-based wellbeing and resilience conference. April 28 & 29, 2020. See you there!What do you do when life gets tough?Do you retreat? Avoid? Get angry? Self medicate? Exercise your need for control?Life throws us all a curve ball eventually and in this episode of the podcast my guest suggests that the remedy for life's difficult patches is not in avoiding what's hard but in wrestling with it and emerging a more complete individual.Dr Sarah Sarkis is a psychologist, a writer, and a performance consultant. She has a private practice in Honolulu and also works with The Flow Research Collective, a science-based peak-performance research and training organization doing some very cool stuff exploring and understanding the science behind ultimate human performance.Sarah blends psychoanalytic theory, positive psychology, existential psychology, neurobio