356. What If You Haven’t Even Scratched the Surface? The Joy, Purpose, and Life You Haven’t Touched Yet.

House of Joy- Christian Life Coaching

Dr. Edie Wadsworth

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Christianity, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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What if you haven’t even scratched the surface of the life you could have? In this episode, I invite you into a question that has been lingering in my own heart lately — especially as I reflect on a full, beautiful year and look ahead with fresh curiosity and hope. So many women I work with love their lives and are deeply grateful… yet still feel a quiet sense of disengagement. Life looks good on the outside, but inside something feels muted. Less alive. Less lit up than it once did. Today, we explore the idea that your life isn’t limited by your circumstances — it’s shaped from the inside out. There is no ceiling on the amount of joy, meaning, connection, purpose, or aliveness you’re allowed to experience. The question is: where might you be unintentionally placing limits on yourself? In this episode, we talk about: Why midlife can feel dull even when life is “good” How joy, purpose, and meaning are created internally — not externally The difference between needing rest and needing aliveness How under-expression and disengagement lead to quiet exhaustion What might change if you believed there was more available to you How to stop blocking what wants to move through you This conversation is an invitation — not to hustle, strive, or chase something new — but to soften, open, and re-engage with your own life. To ask yourself where joy, curiosity, and desire might be waiting for permission again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.
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0:28.8	to learn more. Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted
0:34.9	conversations about things that matter as you seek to live your most
0:38.5	meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life. I'm your host, Dr. Edy Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here
0:44.8	at the House of Joy. Well, hi, dear ones. Welcome back to the House of Joy podcast. Dr. Eadie here.
0:51.3	I'm so honored to be here with you. I have got my very delicious hot tea
0:56.3	with me on this very cold January day. Everybody's joking about, is this like the 100th day
1:03.6	of January? Listen, give me 100 days of January. I love this month. I've had so much fun. I've been
1:10.0	a little bit hibernating these past couple of weeks. It's been cold. I've had so much fun. I've been a little bit hibernating these past couple of
1:12.8	weeks. It's been cold. We've had weather. I've had my knitting. I finished my sock, by the way,
1:19.7	you guys, and I forgot to bring it down here, but I finished my sock and I was showing it to my team this
1:24.0	morning so proud as a proud mother of a brand new sock would be.
1:28.5	And my sister was like, well, you only have one.
1:32.3	Did you not knit another one?
1:33.6	I'm like, well, that's a very difficult, hard thing to ask me.
1:38.6	Of course, I haven't knit another one yet.
1:40.8	This one took me my whole life.
1:43.3	So anyways, now I've got to start on the second sock. This one took me my whole life. So anyways, now I got to start on the second
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