In Part 1 of my conversation with Tim Sharp, aka Dr Happy, we talk about happiness from a place that’s often missing from the conversation.
Tim shares how his interest in happiness began not through ease, but through struggle working as a clinical psychologist alongside anxiety, depression, and the parts of life that weren’t working. His own mental health challenges shaped his drive to succeed, but also influenced how he experienced that success, sometimes achieving things without fully enjoying them.
We explore how positive psychology isn’t about being happy all the time. Happiness is just one emotion among many alongside calm, contentment, joy, and meaning and thriving requires learning how to live with discomfort, uncertainty, stress, and negative emotions, not avoiding them.
Through Tim’s CHOOSE framework, we discuss what it means to pursue a life that includes clarity about values, healthy foundations, realistic optimism, strong connections, use of strengths, and space for enjoyment while accepting that growth often involves effort and challenge.
This part of the conversation is about learning to respond to life more deliberately, understanding that we don’t control everything that happens, but we do have choices in how we engage with it.
Because happiness isn’t about eliminating the hard parts, it’s about learning how to live well with them.
And, as always — this can look different.
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Resources and tools mentioned in this episode:
Audible
All of Tim’s books including ‘Lost and Found’ By Dr Tim Sharp – on Audible
Website - https://drhappy.com.au/resources/
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