Joy Blog
When I was asked at a party how I was doing and I replied with: “Amazing”, do you know what the person’s answer was?
Not “that’s great to hear” or “oh that’s wonderful”, nope, the answer was:...
It really is THAT simple, although I’m perfectly aware that this doesn’t mean that it can be easily done.
Can you remember a situation from your life where you were bathing in feelings of joy and fun?
Like when you were on a walk with...
All of us know on some level that pushing our feelings away all the time isn’t helping us solve our problems. And yet it makes sense that we still do it because, whether we’re conscious of it or not, many of us fear what we’ll do if...
Do you know the feeling when you get up on the wrong side of bed, it’s freezing cold, you didn’t sleep a lot and, above all, a really busy day lies ahead of you and you already feel exhausted, 15 minutes into the new day?
All you want to...
But even when you resolve to respond differently next time, it just feels so easy to go on autopilot and respond the same way so that, again, that one bad moment turns into an entire bad day.
Thankfully there are many things that we can do on...
Imagine you enter your apartment after a long day, a much deserved hot chai latte from your favorite coffee shop in your hand. You’re in a hurry to finally throw yourself on the sofa, and so you put the beverage on the small table at the...
Are you aware that you’re constantly talking to yourself? Not in a mad way, I mean that voice in your head that comments everything you do as in:
- You’ve overslept and the inner voice says;
- You'll never get your life together like...
Do you ever say “See, you are just too stupid to do this!” to yourself? Does it ever feel like the voice in your head is constantly bullying and belittling you?
Does it ever feel like the voice in your head is loud or quiet, mean,...
Let’s do a little thinking experiment. Think about a “should” in your life that you’ve heard over and over again, from somebody else or from yourself. Eg. You want to work part time because you prefer to have more time off than...
Imagine being at a party and observing a person throwing off their shoes and dancing wildly in the moist grass while the other rather distinguished guests shake their heads in disapproval.
Or seeing a father bringing a funny and colorfully decorated...
Do you feel like you often have to pull yourself together and that it would be shameful to show your true feelings in front of other people or even yourself?
Chances are that you’ve been brought up like this. That it’s something...
How often do you have fun?
How often do you laugh out loud?
How often do you do something just because it's the most fun thing you can do right now?
I often hear people say that they miss having fun or that they don’t know the last time they...
