Hello and welcome to another episode of the Lizl Wellbeing Show, the podcast that brings

you your weekly dose of wellness wisdom you can trust. And you know my team and I always

really love reading your comments and so thank you as ever for all your feedback about

the podcast and our accompanying articles. And interestingly following our recent episode

about IBS Irritable Bowls Syndrome with Dr. Lisa Das. We received this one from Min Kackins

who writes, great podcast for me as a long-term IBS sufferer. I particularly enjoyed the

bit that said enjoy moderate amounts of chocolate. Great advice, winky face. Thank you very

much Min. Yeah, I really listened to that podcast actually just the other day and I did smile

at that bit. Of course Lisa did point out it's dark chocolate that the gut likes. Low sugar,

high cocoa content, lots of polyphenols. So for me that's kind of like a 70% plus in terms

of the labeling. If you want to take that little bit of health advice. And of course by leaving

comments like that you can really help other people to find us too so they can benefit

from the expert help they need really important when it comes to something like IBS. Now if

you do want to get in touch you can find me on social media. I'm at Lizal Me or my team

at Lizal Wellbeing and please do leave us that all important review on your podcast platform

of choice if you get a moment. Well on to today's guest and on this episode we bring you joy

and my goodness after the past couple of years couldn't we all do with a bit of that.

I remember actually writing joy in the magazine as my word for the year. I think that might

have been January 2020. Well that went well didn't it? Anyway today author and illustrator

Laura Brown's new book The Joy Journal for grownups and it includes a 50 fabulous homemade

crafts to inspire creativity, mindfulness and connection all those important things.

And it invites us to experiment and play with a range of really simple ideas that can

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