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

Griefing doesn't need to be one way.

The sort of foundation of microjoys is 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 and 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 in

there on some level.

But what if even in those moments where the big happy or the big joy just isn't

accessible, there was still a way to dip into fleeting moments of

lightness or what my dear friend and guest today, Cindy Spiegel calls

microjoys. Ones that give 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 grown-ass women,

a beloved storyteller turned writer,

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

like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Lamber, and more.

Her new book, Microjoys, Finding Hope, especially when life is not okay, is really a revelation.

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