CPS' Keoshia Worthy, Ph.D. interviewed for Women's Health magazine
Counseling and Psychological Services' Clinical Psychologist Keoshia Worthy, Ph.D. provides science-backed reasons to start doing workouts you enjoy in an article published in the November 2020 issue of Women's Health magazine.
The article, "The Joy of Sweating" reads in part: All those flashbacks sparked serious joy for me, and when I explained this to Keoshia Worthy, PhD, a clinical psychologist at Columbia University who specializes in performance, she wasn’t surprised. “We encode these pleasurable moments, the times that we experienced happiness,” she says. She told me that our brains essentially possess an *air quotes* emotional muscle memory. Those warm-and-fuzzy mems sit in our subconscious under the endless lists of to-dos that float closer to the surface, and we can tap into their residual good vibes by engaging in activities that elicit similar positive feelings. Better still: “Doing this increases our ability to feel happiness,” says Worthy—kind of like how doing cardio amps up our capacity to consume larger volumes of oxygen.