Decades after the 1990 broadcast, Power For Positive Living embarks on a new voyage as an internet podcast dedicated to personal growth, emotional well-being, and meaningful living.

Whether you're seeking greater self-awareness, personal development, or simply a fresh perspective, Friend Ship Radio welcomes you aboard to the grand march of life!

  Your host concludes the radio broadcast segment of this Power for Positive Living podcast series with an introspective review of Wellness Psychology life lessons.    He observes some changes that have taken place during his past 27 years of living life as well as how many characteristics of human behavior have remained consistent.    There is a focus on the major factors which he has personally found to be most useful in developing positive life lessons for his own mental health system over the years of using Wellness Psychology.

Your host completes a trilogy of visits with "Hello, Henry" on WBT, AM 1110, in Charlotte, NC.   This broadcast also completes the series of interviews to promote personal retreating with Friend Ship at Sea and was done after the KGBC production of Power for Positive Living.
In addition to an active conversation on various aspects of wellness psychology, your host and Henry pose many questions and answers for listeners to consider as they face issues in their lives.  

One caller's inquiry allows the discussion of where do each of us seek the answers to the questions of life.   Do we tend to seek "the answers" from outside sources or do we tend to believe that we that we can discover answers only within ourselves?  Or do we tend to see life as "a gift we have only to receive" and not spend time with introspective exploration.   The concept of "degreeism" returns with an approach of finding ways to avoid either/or responses and then seek to learn from a merging of possible answers. 

Your host pays a repeat visit to "Hello Henry" on WBT, AM 1110, in Charlotte, NC, before his move to the Atlanta area in Georgia.   

This conversation with Henry Bogan is primarily responding to individuals who call into the radio station to share their questions about relationships with others.   One question encourages a person to ponder their own reasons and needs when they plan to 'help' others who have declined an offer of assistance.    It is often difficult to effectively and positively relate with others until we have learned to relate healthfully with ourselves. 

As is frequently the point within wellness psychology, the challenge remains for each of us to learn from one's own inner voices (values, beliefs, experiences, etc.) rather than rely so heavily on the what others tell us is the 'best' for us on how to think, feel and behave as we choose how to live life.

Expectations and Stress

One life challenge that tends to remain the same over the years is the decisions that one makes in how he/she chooses to manage the many expectations and stresses of various holiday periods.   

This brief radio interview has your host offering some factors for choosing options on WGBR, Goldsboro, NC, during the Christmas season of 1992.

  Your host brings his listening ministry from Galveston, Texas to Goldsboro, North Carolina.  In this interview from WGBR AM 1150, he discusses the connection between Wellness Psychology personal-retreat principles and those used in clinical private practice counseling. Dr. Hughey firmly believes that caring to actively listen is the primary foundation of personal and professional counseling relationships.

As the Power for Positive Living radio series moves on from KGBC broadcasting, the focus turns toward what your host has personally learned from his experience and adventure of offering wellness psychology concepts to others.   

Any life experience is open for one to learn.  What each of us chooses to learn from whatever happens along our Life Journey has been and will continue to be a personal decision.  Change continues in our lives and each retains the power to choose our individual responses.   

Power for Positive Living has been an effort to share what your host has learned over the years. Each listener is encouraged to consider this knowledge and utilize any relevant portion of it within their own individual lives. 

Using various emotional tools like a positive-view camera or a positive magnifying glass, we each make choices on how we see various aspects of our world and the people in it.  What we choose to see generally will translate into the attitudes we develop.

  There can be times when we need an objective, competent and caring person to listen and offer guidance for the many and varied stresses of living.   Sometimes we need more than we can receive from family and friends.    Choosing a counselor is a very personal decision.  One may be lucky with the first choice they try or they find that finding the right person can be a long and challenging road.  Like many significant life choices, it helps to do extensive research on options that match one's own unique personality.

  Wellness psychology accepts that basically healthy people frequently have needs for assistance from others to better understand themselves and others.   About one in four persons will need some type of psychological assistance from another during their life journey to make healthy mental health choices.   Mental Health is defined on Friend Ship Radio and at the Personal Retreat Center as: positive interaction with life to the benefit of self and others.  

  Various mental health myths are discussed.  Our society often has difficulties with individual differences.  We like persons to be "individual" as long as they are also "normal".