Power For Positive Living

Teachers spend much of the day asking students to listen—but how often do we stop and ask whether we're truly listening to them? Real listening goes beyond hearing words. It builds trust, strengthens relationships, helps us better understand students and families, and creates classrooms where people feel valued. In this episode, we explore why listening may be one of the most important qualiti...

Real connection starts with feeling heard. In our relationships with family, friends, and the people closest to us, communication isn’t just about talking — it’s about truly listening. But how often are we fully present when someone is sharing what they think or feel? Listening takes more than staying quiet while another person speaks. It requires attention, patience, empathy, and a willingness to...

What does it really mean to listen? In this episode, we explore one of the simplest yet most powerful ways to show love and care for others: truly listening. Not just hearing words—but being present, understanding, and making space for someone to feel seen and heard. Through a moving pastoral letter, this episode reveals how the simple act of listening can profoundly change someone’s life.

This episode reflects on why listening is far more than hearing words; it is one of the greatest gifts we can offer to those around us and an essential part of building stronger human connection.

Years may pass, technology may change, and life may become busier, but one thing remains true: listening is one of the most meaningful ways we can show we care. In this companion episode to an earlier podcast, *Listening Is Loving*, your host revisits the idea that being fully present for another person is a powerful expression of love, friendship, and respect.

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...

In this special episode, our host wraps up a memorable trilogy of guest appearances on  Hello, Henry  on  WBT AM 1110 in Charlotte, North Carolina , bringing to a close a powerful series of conversations centered on personal growth, self-discovery, and living a more intentional life. Throughout the conversation, your host and Henry explore some of life’s biggest questions — the kinds of questions...

In this episode, your host makes a return visit to Hello Henry on WBT AM 1110 in Charlotte, NC, ahead of an upcoming move to the Atlanta area. Joining longtime radio host Henry Bogan, the conversation dives into real-life questions from about relationships, boundaries, and personal growth.

Pricing My Life Choices   This interview allows each listener to consider knowledge and life options presented from a different point of view.   Your host is interviewed by Henry Bogan on WBT-AM in Charlotte, NC, on Friend Ship's focus on wellness psychology.      Together they explore the basic concepts of emotional pricing that each of us pays when we make our individual choices interacting with...

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 rela...

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 de...

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. ...

  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: positi...

  One of the cornerstones of wellness psychology is acknowledging the power of choice that each of us has with personal prejudices. A key to a better understanding of who we are is learning how we choose our personal attitudes and expectations.   Your host discusses how specific perceptions of mental illness create our prejudices. Over the decades there have been myths that mental illness is cause...

  Who am I?  How did I develop into the person I am?  Who were the people and what were the major events that led me to make healthy and unhealthy choices which bring happiness or sadness into my current life?  Am I ready to study and understand the internal compass that guides me when I enter the emotional fogs of daily living?   How can I understand myself better and explore/experiment by choosi...

  Who am I?  How did I develop into the person I am?  Who were the people and what were the major events that led me to make healthy and unhealthy choices which bring happiness or sadness into my current life?  Am I ready to study and understand the internal compass that guides me when I enter the emotional fogs of daily living?   How can I understand myself better and explore/experiment by choosi...

Wellness Psychology encourages each of us to more fully understand and appreciate the choices we make in developing and implementing our own individual self-esteem beginning as a child to becoming a senior citizen.   Special interest is paid to the emotional cancer of perfectionist tyranny and the ways we can re-decide to promote healthy self-esteem for ourselves.

Wellness Psychology encourages each of us to more fully understand and appreciate the choices we make in developing and implementing our own individual self-esteem beginning as a child to becoming a senior citizen. Beginning with words from the Book of Proverbs, "As he thinks in his heart, so is he", various approaches are presented to understanding the choices our heart implements durin...

Understanding Defense Mechanisms Your host discusses the following:  * What is a defense mechanism? What role do they serve? * What is a reaction formation? * What is projection? We strongly condemn in others what we can't admit about ourselves. * What is rationalization and how can we recognize it? * Is there a difference between a "good" reason and the "real" reason?

This broadcast PTP (Point to Ponder) involves the behavior of responding to someone who often seeks advice and then chooses not to implement it.   People seek advice from others for a number of reasons ranging from seeking confirmation of ideas (people do what they want to do) to seeking help from others to reinforce a perspective of neediness.   Psychological mind games can be played such as, "Se...

One of the most frequent challenges a person can face is the process of developing a positive self-image and choosing positive ways while interacting with negative people.

In this episode, your host explores eight traits commonly found in successful entrepreneurs and offers practical ways to better understand yourself.