Dear nrk2208:

You are welcome. What you are after is not an easy aim to achieve. If I am to be of any help to you in your aim, it will take back and forth communication, time and patience.

You wrote: “both my parents are also not positive thinkers. And this has been the case all throughout my childhood… In fact now a days I end up giving them suggestions about taking things positively. This is quite energy draining at times”-

-to understand better I ask: as a child and a teenager, do you remember then trying to help your parents feel better, turn their frown (negative thinking and feeling) into a smile (positive thinking and feeling)?

Do you remember how you did it then, how  you tried?

anita