Hello, everyone, and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast to fill your soul, challenge your mind, and make you brave.

I'm your host, Joy Clarkson, and an evangelist for all things good, true, and beautiful.

So make yourself a cup of tea, find somewhere comfortable, and let's dive in to this week's episode. Hello, friends. I am so happy that you

have joined me on this lovely Monday, or whatever day you happen to be tuning in.

This is the fourth in my series of aggressively happy podcasts.

We've been exploring the themes in my book, Aggressively Happy, A Realist Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life.

The first week we talked about deciding to live.

The next week we talked about befriending sadness. Last week we talked about floundering well.

And today we're going to talk about remembering that you have a body. But I wanted to pop on

quickly and give you some announcements. This week, my book officially launches on February 15th. And to celebrate

the launch of this book, I'm going to be releasing an episode every single day, one for each

chapter in the book, with a different conversation with someone about kind of the themes that

are explored in the book. And I am so excited to share these conversations

with you. I've been recorded them over the last couple of months. And each one of them

encouraged me and inspired me and was honestly just a blast. This book is about what it takes

to find and keep a sturdy center of joy. And in doing that, I got to talk with people

who I think have done that really well and explore themes that I think help us center ourselves and

find some sanity and joy and beauty and hope. So I hope you will tune into each episode this week.

And if you like them, share them with your friends.

And I also want to let you know there will be a few events. I'll be doing an Instagram live,

probably at, I'm trying to think about this, it'll be 1.30 Eastern on my Instagram on February 15th.

So tune into that, and there will be giveaways and lots of

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