Hello and greetings and welcome to the Live Happy Now podcast.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston, thanking you once again for making us a part of your day, however you may be listening and wherever you are in the world.

We're glad to have you.

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to consider as you make that journey toward peak happiness because as you will wake into the power

of happiness, so do your dreams, so what's next?

Find out at life reimagined.org slash happy. Well, we've been talking about a lot lately how the

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to do so as you are tooling around line today, tonight, whatever time it might be in

your part of the world.

Now, in this episode of Live Happy Now, our own Debra Heist is going to speak with Kenneth

Parkman on one of ten practices for choosing joy, spirituality.

Kenneth has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a professor emeritus of psychology

at Bowling Green University and is also the author of the psychology of religion and coping

and spirituality integrated psychotherapy, understanding, and addressing the sacred.

Let me welcome Ken Pargament to the Live Happy Now podcast.

I'm really thankful that Ken has agreed to speak with us today because one of the challenges

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