Creating MICROJOYS in Your Life
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
"It's that idea that you have this ritual in your day to day that brings you a sense of calm, a sense of joy, so that you're starting out from that place and not waking up kind of shaking with anxiety." - Cyndie Spiegel
Join me as I navigate the delicate interplay of joy and grief with Cyndie Spiegel. Cyndie illuminates the rawness of loss and the resilience of the human spirit. She introduces us to the concept of "microjoys," those tiny, yet powerful moments that foster contentment amidst sorrow. We'll explore how these fragments of happiness can coexist with the pain of bereavement and how Cyndie's own journey led her to embrace them. It's a discussion that reaffirms the strength we can find in tenderness and the unexpected places we encounter comfort. Tune in to learn how small joys can illuminate the spaces between life and death, and visit our podcast page for episode notes, Cyndie's insights, and more.
0:00 Intro/Trailer
0:44 Welcoming Cyndie Spiegel to the show / the concept of microjoys
3:41 What changes did the concept of positive thinking bring to Cyndie?
5:36 Positive psychology ‘’movement’’
7:42 Microjoys vs. happiness
13:52 Specific microjoys
14:34 Microjoys versus ‘macro joys’
18:32 Simple coffee can work as a microjoy
21:13 Losses open up to a greater spiritual connection
28:18 Am I cursed because of all these bad things that happened to me?
33:20 Post-traumatic growth
35:42 Where can people find more about Cyndie and her book?
36:42 Outro
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KEYWORDS
Cyndie Spiegel, Dr. Amy Robbins, loss, grief, difficult experiences, personal growth, grieving process, positive thinking, microjoys, spiritual joy, alignment between joy and spirituality, gratitude practice, emotional well-being, pandemic losses, positive psychology, accessible moments of joy, therapy, happiness vs. joy, podcast subscription, life-after-death, continued connection, feeling cursed, color and mood, morning ritual, perfect coffee, spiritual encounters, life's challenges, connection with deceased, life’s cyclical nature, Thanksgiving traditions.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe people are thinking, as I'm looking outside at all the dead trees, like there's no... |
| 0:05.5 | Yeah, same. |
| 0:05.8 | Sister, same. |
| 0:06.9 | No leaves. |
| 0:07.7 | No leaves. |
| 0:08.5 | No flowers. |
| 0:10.3 | Although the sun came out today. |
| 0:12.6 | So that is a big microjoy here. |
| 0:15.4 | I don't think the sun has come out for like 10 days. |
| 0:18.7 | We don't need to chase this concept of happiness all the time. |
| 0:22.8 | We can be joyful beings and still experience difficult moments, still experience those |
| 0:28.2 | moments that bring us to our knees. |
| 0:29.9 | It's not either or, you know, it's not binary in that way. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome, Cindy. |
| 0:42.8 | Oh, it's lovely to be here. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:51.9 | It's so great to have you to talk about what we so need right now, which is microjoys in our lives. |
| 0:56.8 | But let's first get a little bit of backstory from you as to kind of how you came to finding these small and sometimes not so small experiences to bring joy into |
| 1:06.3 | what has been some really tough times for you. Yeah. So the sort of definition that I've given to the |
| 1:14.6 | word microjoys is this. They are easily accessible moments of joy that exist regardless of our |
| 1:20.1 | current circumstances. So what that means is that they are there, whether we are going through |
| 1:24.9 | difficult times or going through ordinary times or going through |
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