Hi, welcome to another episode of Enthusastically Spiritual. I'm your host Theresa Shands and welcome to the wake-up series. Yes, the wake-up series. In this series I'm going to take one key word or topic and talk about it and share a little bit of mini morsels, satisfy your spiritual sweet tooth, every

single episode. So in this episode I'm going to dive in a

little deep into your own inner happiness. So what is happiness all about and

how do you get happy? how do you gather that inner

happiness well for one thing it starts with you because there's no one else on the

planet that can create your inner happiness you truly are the master builder of your own happiness. And happiness

is really a byproduct of honestly the choices you make in your life, the road you decide

to go down, the people you choose to have in your life, and you know what, there's no right or wrong in any of that because it's all part of the journey.

It's all part of the experiences and the challenges and the exciting moments you have

to create that inner happiness for yourself.

Now I know some people find creating happiness very challenging.

And well, that's probably part of what they're here to do, is they're here to experience having

some challenges in that.

And I know for years that I thought I was good at masking my unhappiness.

Yeah, I was really good at masking my unhappiness. Yeah, I was really good at masking it and I didn't realize how other people could see how unhappy I was. I was in a life where it all looked great and I had everything I wanted and I had the family and everything

but honestly inside I was so unhappy and I went along with this for years played the game, did my thing,

until I got the point where I can't take this anymore.

I need to make myself happy.

And looking back at that, when I made choices

to shift my life and go down a different road with different people in different situations,

some people came at me and said, I've known all along for years you've been unhappy.

And we knew something was going on and I'm like holy crap so I guess unhappiness also exudes out to the way we act towards with others and the way we act in our daily routine because literally people said to me I just knew you were unhappy.

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