4053: Sometimes Life Sucks and You Choose Joy Anyway by Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui of A Life In Progress

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🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4053: Krista explores how joy is not the absence of hardship but a daily practice that can coexist with fear, stress, pain, and uncertainty. Through honest reflection and practical habits, she shows how resilience, self-compassion, and small intentional choices can help us stay grounded when life feels overwhelming. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/choose-joy/ Quotes to ponder: "Sometimes life sucks and you choose joy anyway." "We can decide, that whether life is easy breezy or downright horrible to choose joy and wear it like a garment." "We can choose to face head-on the reality of our current situation, and even when life sucks, when we feel heartbroken or afraid or extremely raw and depleted, we can choose joy anyway." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.4	optimal living daily. Sometimes life sucks and you choose joy anyway by Krista O'Reilly Davy DeGee
1:09.6	of a Life in Progress.C.
1:12.1	And I'm Justin Mollick.
1:13.6	And we're going to jump right into today's post as we optimize your life.
1:21.3	Sometimes life sucks, and you choose joy anyway, by Krista O'Reilly, Davy DeGee of a Life in Progress.ca.
1:29.9	This is real life, yet another sewer backup, another friend in trouble, more financial stressors,
1:37.1	a child going through a difficult time, something's up in your body and it hurts,
1:41.7	dealing with disingenuous people. Ugh, sometimes life sucks and you choose joy
1:47.0	anyway. Should we wait until life is calm and perfectly predictable to live with joy? Do we permit
1:52.8	life circumstances to control our every thought and emotion? Why do other people get to push our
1:57.7	buttons and control our moods and behavior? We can decide that whether life is easy, breezy, or downright horrible, to choose joy and
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