Micrature is really came to be about honing the ability to find joy, in spite of everything else.

Grieving doesn't need to be one way.

The sort of foundation of microjoices about learning to hold joy in one hand and grief in the other,

at any particular moment.

Fall to your knees heartbreak, but also joy that is bigger than you've ever known possible,

and sometimes you will experience that in the same breath.

And what grace it is to allow ourselves to feel that.

So have you ever had a moment or experience, maybe an entire season of life that was just so

hard, so filled with struggle and maybe even grief, loss and uncertainty, that the very idea of

feeling or accessing any kind of big or meaningful or sustained happiness or joy, it just completely left you.

And those well-intended folks around you who try to refocus your heart in mind on the good things and

the gratitude it actually just kind of made you feel even worse.

Because the darkness, the struggle you were navigating, was so far beyond what simple advice and

platitudes could even begin to help. It would have all been there on some level.

But what if even in those moments where the big happy or the big joy just is inaccessible?

There was still a way to dip into fleeting moments of lightness or what my dear friend and guest

today, Cindy Speagle calls, micro-joys. One that gives you just enough of a glimmer of hope and

connection, ease and maybe even laughter that it keeps you going long enough to begin to emerge

back into a state of more sustained and spacious possibility. So Cindy is a speaker and best-selling

author, founder of the social community, Dear Growness Women, a beloved storyteller turned writer

and an igniter of power conversation who has been featured in publications like Forbes,

Entrepreneur Glamour and more. Her new book, MicroJoyce, Finding Hope, especially when life is not

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