Finding Joy Even When Life Hurts [138]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Spiritual, Narcissism, Self-improvement, Marriage, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Divorce, Christianity, Education

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

If your life is already a tough pill to swallow, taking more medicine is the last thing you want to do. Gross. But what if it's the "best medicine"? The type that makes you laugh-cry, hold your sides, and snort with glee. Laughter and joy and humor can transform the darkest days, the bleakest seasons, and the hardest nights. And no matter what you've been through, you really can experience their life-giving power. I talk with prolific laugher, Sara Richmond, about how. The surprising highlights of this prescription: -Think you can't laugh and be honest about your pain? Codswallop! -Learn how to steal (okay, borrow) laughter on the worst days -Why surviving a buttload of baloney in your marriage makes you an ideal patient for supreme joy -Completely overwhelmed? Our suggestions: Sing badly, run away, or shriek "Balderdash!" (and what we really mean by self-care during the worst times) -How being quirky and weird (or just exactly who you are) is the way to score free joy for life -A bunch more (because I always overdeliver, from pizza to malarkey to a gaggle of children to my support group) Listen or download the transcript at flyingfreenow.com/138 FREE: I'll send you the first chapter of my book, Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage. Just hop on my mailing list at flyingfreesisterhood.com/free-download. (I will NEVER spam you or sell your information.) Desperate for real help and safe people who understand what you're going through? Find out about my online education and support program for women of faith at joinflyingfree.com And, if you are an already divorced Christian woman who wants to take back her life and get healthy, have amazing relationships, build a business or career, or even find a good man - check out joinflyinghigher.com

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free
0:10.2	podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden
0:16.6	emotional and spiritual abuse.
0:21.6	Welcome to episode 138 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today I have with me Sarah Richmond,
0:29.7	she's been with me in the past, in the very recent past past and we just had so much fun that we
0:34.6	thought let's do it again and Sarah what topic did you want to talk about Sarah
0:40.3	Sarah actually threw out some topics she really wanted to talk about and she
0:44.4	picked this one as the first one so what what is it?
0:47.8	Joy I guess and I would I would actually qualify that I'm really into humor so that's what I mean by it but I
0:55.5	wanted to sound grown up. Oh my gosh we were having a great conversation before we
1:02.1	started this podcast and then we were like,
1:03.7	wait a minute, we are actually doing the podcast episode right now and we're not recording.
1:08.8	So we hit the record button and we're just going to kind of, not complete,
1:13.4	but we're gonna continue our conversation
1:17.1	about joy and humor
1:19.2	and the place that it has in our lives as abuse survivors.
1:26.4	Does it have a place in our lives?
1:28.2	I mean, some people might say,
1:30.0	there is nothing funny about abuse, which I would agree with, but what so how would you address that?
1:37.2	I can understand that and I think especially in the current political climate and the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic, there's this idea
1:45.2	that if we're laughing or being jovial or making light of things, especially that relate to heavier
1:52.0	subject matter, that we're somehow disrespecting it or we're denying reality.
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