You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast. I'm Dr. Jen Ridey, and on this episode,

I'm going to be talking about expanding our personal capacities for joy. Stay tuned.

Are you ready to expand your soul's capacity for joy? Then this podcast is for you. I'm Dr. Jen Ridey and welcome to Vibrant Happy Women.

All right, welcome back to Vibrant Happy Women. I just got back from the most amazing retreat yet

where we experienced the deepest connection and the greatest emotional safety.

And for me personally, where I hit max capacity for the joy I have ever been able to receive so far in my life.

So I feel like that's saying a lot.

Let me describe it.

I was sitting on a beach one night.

Some of the retreat attendees were there right in front

of the water, taking pictures. The sun was setting in the west, and I could see their silhouettes.

And I felt just such amazing joy at the emotional safety we had created together, the friendships, the love, the vulnerability.

It's a level of friendship I never expected,

I never even knew was possible and it just gets better with every retreat. So for me personally,

this was by far hands down the best retreat I've ever hosted. I think it was my sixth. I adored it. So I'm sitting on the beach. The women are taking pictures, jumping, profiling with their their iPhones. And I felt something

that was almost like, whoa, what is this? I don't think I've ever felt this happy before. It was just almost more than I

could contain so much so that it felt like it was pressing on the tear ducts of my eyes. My eyes were

just tearing up. I could barely handle that much happiness. And suddenly it reminded me of a

question, a friend had asked me once, my friend Natalie, long ago, she asked

Jen, how much happiness are you willing to receive? What an interesting question, and I want to pose

it to you now listening. What would be your answer to this question? How much happiness

are you willing to receive? Okay, so we each grow up with a

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