What is a Joyful Vegan?
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Being a joyful vegan doesn't mean you're joyful all the time. It doesn't mean you're Pollyanna. It doesn't mean you're never angry. But it does mean this.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Small Bites, Sound Bites, a midweek segment of food for thought podcast where I share short, succinct, thoughtful responses to typical questions, myths, and misconceptions related to plant-based eating, veganism, and animal protection. |
| 0:15.0 | You can get written transcripts of this podcast by going to joyfulvegan.com slash donate. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm asked a lot why I call myself a joyful vegan. What does it mean to me to be a joyful vegan? I've been calling myself a joyful vegan for decades, I've made it my brand, and I'll tell you why. |
| 0:49.0 | For me personally, I call myself a joyful vegan because I genuinely find great joy in reflecting my deepest compassion in my everyday behavior, reflecting my deepest values in my everyday behavior that is being vegan. |
| 1:05.0 | I use joyful vegan as my brand, as the title of my recent book, the joyful vegan, because I want to mirror back to people and hopefully attract them to what it looks like to live with awareness and purpose while still being hopeful and joyful. |
| 1:24.0 | But being a joyful vegan doesn't mean I'm just dancing in the daisies all day long, I don't know if I dance in daisies. Being a joyful vegan doesn't mean being happy all the time or living as some delusional polyanna who sees everything through rose-colored glasses. |
| 1:39.0 | So what does it mean to be a joyful vegan? I think it means acting with integrity and compassion behind closed doors and in public, online and in person with vegans and with non-vegans. I think it means choosing hope over despair. |
| 1:58.0 | I honestly could not do this work or call myself a joyful vegan if I didn't have hope or rather if I did not choose to dwell in hope. |
| 2:10.0 | I have hope because there's much to be hopeful about, it's just a matter of where you want to put your focus. |
| 2:17.0 | Finally, to me, being a joyful vegan means orienting to the world in an open, thoughtful way, where your eyes are wide open, yes, and your mind is wide open, yes, but so is your heart. |
| 2:32.0 | That's what being a joyful vegan means to me. For the animals, this is Colleen Patrick Goodrow. Thank you for listening. |
| 2:47.0 | Thank you. |
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