Episode 5: Finding Your Spark

How do you start finding joy again when you’ve completely forgotten how to have fun? In this episode, Shelby shares a heartwarming and messy step in her own healing journey: visiting a local paint-your-own-pottery studio and eventually buying cheap acrylics to make art that, by her own admission, "really sucked." She discusses the profound guilt that comes with experiencing pleasure after loss, and how she used the memory of her husband Rich—her biggest cheerleader—to give herself permission to play. If you are terrified that finding joy means betraying your person's memory, this 10-minute episode is a gentle invitation to try something small, messy, and entirely for you. If you'd like to begin exploring who you are, what you like (and don't) with someone who has been in your shoes, I'd love to welcome you to a Who Am I Now? 75-minute session with me. No pressure. No big plans. Just a simple step or two to start you on your journey to discovery.