Why am I not happier? (and what to do about it)

You are not broken. You are not ungrateful. But there is a good chance that somewhere along the way, in the pursuit of the next level, the next salary, the next thing to get right, you quietly lost access to delight. Not in a dramatic way. Just a slow, almost imperceptible compression of your experience of life until you can stand somewhere genuinely beautiful and feel almost nothing. In this episode, Lucy explores why this happens so specifically to high achievers, what it actually means to live from the shadow of seriousness, and why the answer is not a bigger holiday or a more radical life change. You will hear about a client session that cracked something open, about a poem that will stop you in your tracks, and about the Gene Keys concept that describes seriousness as the most widespread disease on the planet. You will hear what it looks like when someone reconnects with their own sense of presence through a painting on a wall and a memory of drawing on a beach in Greece with a stranger. And you will be reminded that the path from numbness to aliveness is not paved with grand gestures. It is paved with breakfast. With the weight of a mug in your hand. With the moment you actually taste something instead of moving straight on to the next thing. This episode is an invitation back to your own life. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve Andrea Gibson Poem The Gene Keys - Free Profile https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/