Joy is Generosity in Providing Protection and Safety

Erin Runnion, Founder of The Joyful Child Foundation, discusses lessons learned about cultivating and protecting joy since her 5-year-old daughter's abduction and murder in 2002. This week's Let's Talk Joy podcast is about the second type of generosity described in The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams: the gift of providing protection and safety. Of course, I couldn't help but talk about how that type of generosity is our most fundamental instinct as a species and how we can do better, even in the midst of our holiday gatherings.