EP46 Joy is a key ingredient to your health

After a few missed weeks (life, illness, the world feeling like it's on fire… you know), I'm back — and we're talking about something that might feel fluffy but absolutely is not: joy. In this episode, I share a quiet birthday-morning moment that stopped me in my tracks and reminded me, this is the whole point. Then we dive into a powerful idea from the book The Joy Reset — that joy isn't pastel, toxic positivity, or "just make lemonade." It's gritty. It lives alongside grief. It shows up at funerals and in high school drama and in the smell of your morning coffee. I'll walk you through the importance of starting to notice tiny little joys (without bypassing the hard stuff) and how training your brain to find them can literally support your health. Because joy isn't the cherry on top of the cake. It's a key part of the recipe.