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  • 5 Ways to Find More Comfort and Joy (Season 7 Wrap Up)

    5 Ways to Find More Comfort and Joy (Season 7 Wrap Up)

    This week’s episode is the finale of season seven (which ran in 2022) where I’ve been talking all about intentional comfort and how to bring more comfort and ease into your everyday life. I’m sharing 5 ways to find more comfort and joy. If you have not yet listened to…

  • Empaths and Highly Sensitive People with guest Signe Myers Hovem

    Empaths and Highly Sensitive People with guest Signe Myers Hovem

    Signe Myers Hovem is a spiritual counselor, an energy worker, and the author of The Space in Between: An Empaths Field Guide. In this interview on Jump Start Your Joy podcast, we are talking about empaths and highly sensitive people (HSPs). As defined by Psychology Today: “Highly Sensitive Person, or…

  • Top 10 Most Beloved Episodes of Season Seven on Jump Start Your Joy (Finale Part One: A Countdown)

    Top 10 Most Beloved Episodes of Season Seven on Jump Start Your Joy (Finale Part One: A Countdown)

    Welcome to the Season Finale for Season 7! This season was all about “Intentional Comfort.” I’m really excited to be sharing with you the top 10, most downloaded and most beloved episodes of season seven, which of course was all about intentional comfort. This topic has been deeply meaningful to…

“Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.”

Henri Nouwen

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith