Powerback 20: Choosing Happiness

Happiness. Sometimes that word is feeling like a buzzword these days, isn't it? Like all of a sudden it's trendy to be happy or we have these quotes where it's like good vibes only as if bad vibes don't exist. Or then you have the polar opposite where if you are a happy person and you just generally shoot rainbows out of your ass, then you're criticized for being this fake happy person. I mean, what? What is the deal? Social media gets a really bad rap because everyone's got an opinion about everything, so there's a lot of negativity - especially when there's big things going on because a lot of opinions get involved. But if you tell your husband online that you love him or you post mostly pictures of your kids where you just kind of go into the spell of, "I'm going to share these positive quotes because they make me feel awesome", then people get all wound up because you're getting all mushy gushy. I mean, okay, we need to stop altogether. The thing about happiness is happiness is 110% a choice. There are absolutely - absolutely - times, circumstances, or scenarios that you just really don't feel happy. Really shitty things can happen in life and that's part of being a human. I'm sure even Ellen Degeneres herself gets pretty bummed out sometimes. I mean, and that's probably one of the happiest people on the planet. So I'm not talking about putting on a front or smiling when you don't feel like smiling. I'm not talking about all that crap. I'm talking about just in your regular day to day life. As humans, we've kind of been conditioned to feel like we don't have a choice and a lot of the things that we say or do, you might feel like you're too much here or you're too much there, so we kind of minimize our happiness to make everyone else uncomfortable.(See Transcript Tab For More)- - -For more inspiration, follow along with us at:thegutsypodcast.comfacebook.com/thegutsypodcastinstagram.com/thegutsypodcastinstagram.com/thatlauraauraSupport the showLeave a Review!We love, love, love to read your comments, feedback, and reviews. It also helps other women like you know they're in the right place to get support.https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-gutsy-podcast/id1445481970