The Year of Living Happy

The Alli Worthington Show

Alli Worthington

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode of the show because it is launch week for my new book, The Year of Living Happy. I like to think of this show as “everything you ever wanted to know about happiness but didn’t know who to ask!” I’m answering your questions, and I don’t hold anything back! You’ll learn why I believe some popular sayings about happiness that are shared on Pinterest and from the pulpit are unbiblical, my own struggles with overcoming depression and finding happiness, and why as women of God we have the responsibility to invest in our happiness. In this episode I share- Why I think the statement “Do more of what makes you holy not happy” is unbiblical. The answer to the debate on if there is a difference between happiness and joy. My own struggles with depression and hope for those who live with it. Questions I answered in this episode- 1. Can you please settle the do more what makes you happy versus holy debate! (2:58) 2. What is the difference between joy and happiness? (7:08) 3. Is contentment the same as happiness? (12:15) 4. Do you believe that those struggling with depression can be happy again? (14:40) 5. I’m a stay at home mom, something I’ve prayed for but I lost my joy. How do I fight back? (17:49) 6. I’m obeying God but what He’s asking me to do isn’t making me happy. What do I do? (25:19) 7. How do you find happiness when all doors close and everybody claims its God’s will? (26:36) 8. How do I find happiness when I don’t think God is answering my prayers? (26:45) Quotes from this episode- 1. The statement that God wants you to be holy and not happy is unbiblical. 2. There is no happiness on this earth. No real, authentic, long-lasting, meaningful happiness outside of God's will for us. 3. There is nothing in the bible that separates the concept of joy and happiness. They have one in the same meaning according to the original languages of scripture. 4. When we separate God from our happiness and from our longing for happiness, we undermine the Christian worldview. -Randy Alcorn 5. We need to trust that God is good. Even when things seem bad, that God puts us on a path and a journey that may not be especially happy at the moment, but He has good for us. That His desire for us is happiness in Him. I hope you love this special solo episode and run out to Target this week and pick up The Year of Living Happy. Get one for yourself and 9 of your friends. :) xo, Alli http://www.alliworthington.com/podcast/theyearoflivinghappy

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special episode, All About Happiness. Now, my new book, The Year of Living
0:05.0	Happy, comes out this week. And today I'm going to be answering all your questions about
0:09.6	happiness that you've been sending me on Instagram through my Instagram stories. Some
0:13.9	were super easy to answer. And others, they were more of a wrestle and really excited to answer them. I think you're going to love today's show.
0:23.3	But before we get started, I need a favor from you. I need your help. The Year of Living Happy is in
0:29.6	Target stores. Like, it's actually on the shelf in your local store. So here's how this works.
0:35.8	Here's kind of the business behind it. Target buys a
0:39.3	bunch of copies for their stores to test out and to see if anybody's going to buy them in the
0:44.4	first few weeks. If people come in and buy them, they'll buy more and they'll keep them in the
0:48.5	store. So if you have any plans to get a book, this week, next week for Christmas presents, if you and your
0:56.4	girlfriends are going to get together and read it next year in a group in January, would you
1:01.5	please go to your local target this week, next week, in the next couple of weeks, whenever you're
1:06.6	listening to this podcast and buy your copy there?
1:10.3	If you go to the stores this week, they should
1:13.2	have them out on the shelves on the second, Tuesday the second. If they don't, just ask them to go
1:18.7	look in the back because they're probably in a box and they can just bring it out. So don't go to Target
1:23.7	to get it and then go away empty handed because they're probably just in the back in a box and it only take a second. The message of holy happiness and how to get it and then go away empty-handed because they're probably just in the back in a box
1:28.0	and it only take a second. The message of holy happiness and how to get it and how to live it,
1:33.1	it's important. And this book is going to change people's lives, especially people who don't know
1:38.7	Jesus. They're just there on a target run. They see this book with a pretty cover that has someone handing them these
1:45.5	gorgeous yellow flowers. And my prayer is that they'll pick it up and they'll be changed forever.
1:51.1	If you would do that, if you would be part of making that happen to help spread this message with
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