Karen Malm, Ph.D, Mental Wellness Tips

Happiness Achieved At Any Time

Posted on by Karen Malm
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Welcome to Mental Health Month! 

I started this as Happy Mental Health Month and thought that sounded a bit weird to put the happy with the mental health when typically people with mental health issues are not particularly happy much of the time. Then I got thinking that “happy” has simply been a tough word to use in the last two months when we are hit daily with Covid news. What is happening to happiness? Do we have to feel guilty if we are happy when we have a pandemic going on? 

As I began to explore this issue of happiness, I decided that no matter what is happening in the world, we can still feel happy in our own life. We can be grateful and we can still hold onto our moments that bring us joy. It seems with the news every day being hammered at us, we are made to feel that we have to be scared, fearful, sad for the lives lost, and simply be consumed by the pandemic. If we are using this month to be aware of mental health issues, it seems like a good time to say “I have a right to be happy”. Even when there is no pandemic, we have our daily stressors and we have the ongoing news of world issues including famine, murder, environmental disasters, and poverty. Perhaps during the Covid crisis, we can use this time to learn how to find happiness and joy every day, in any small way.  

Roy T. Bennett

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”

Tom Bodett

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

Dale Carnegie

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”

 

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Karen W. Malm, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychologist

Executive Director

Summit Community Counseling

5689 S Redwood Rd #27

Taylorsville, UT 84123

801-266-2485

www.summitcom.org

 

If you need more inspiration to be happy, check out this trailer for the documentary: Happy

About the Author

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Karen Malm

Karen Malm is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience as a psychologist working in a variety of settings from inpatient facilities to schools to working with families in their homes and with a wide array of psychological issues and behavioral concerns.

She has worked with a variety of clients from very young to geriatric, with a host of issues, and with a variety of disabilities and needs. She shows flexibility in her approach to work with each client as an individual who deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Karen provides thorough psychological and neuropsychological assessments to understand the person and their strengths and barriers. She is skilled in working with children with reactive attachment disorder, adults and children with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and with therapy issues related to day-to-day life issues. Karen is also certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).