How to Actively Seek Out Joy In Your Life

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Joy isn’t as simple as many of us like to think. If we are stuck in fight or flight mode, if life feels really hard, or if we are used to climbing a mountain every single day - sometimes joy can really evade us. This week on Self-Care Daily, we are going to make more space for joy in our lives, through contemplating our relationship with it and working through it step by step. Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6	Hello, my friends.
0:32.5	Hello, my darlings.
0:33.8	Welcome, welcome back to the show.
0:35.8	I hope you are feeling good and that you had a really
0:38.5	nourishing weekend. It is time for us to dive into a brand new week of inner work. And I have a
0:46.0	feeling just in my bones that we could all use a little bit more light in our lives right now.
0:52.8	So I thought we would set our intentions this week
0:56.1	around looking for and actively inviting joy into our lives. Black Friday at Abercrombie
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1:48.4	intention this week to actively seek out joy, to actually wake up in the morning with joy on our minds and in our
1:56.3	hearts and to look for ways where we can sort of put ourselves in the way of joy, making space for
2:02.8	joyful experiences all throughout the day, all throughout the week in different ways.
2:07.4	And of course, we're going to contemplate our own inner sense of joy as well, because joy
2:13.3	is not as simple as many of us maybe like to think. So oftentimes we think of challenging emotions
2:21.6	as emotions that we deem negative, right? So a difficult emotion could be sadness or jealousy or
2:28.2	shame or anger. And then we have other emotions that we think of as positive as maybe gratitude
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