I am thrilled to be able to share this conversation with you as it is so inspiring. Dana is a widow, cancer survivor and founder of The Forced Joy Project, and here she shares so much from her own journey through widowhood you can’t help but feel inspired by her.

Dana’s husband Brad died in January 2017 and since then it has become Dana’s mission to inspire and empower others to find joy in the midst of grief, teaching people to embrace the joy, even during times of great sadness.

The Forced Joy Project is a community of people who are willing to share in life’s brightest and darkest moments, which is something I love to do in my groups and what attracted me to Dana in the first place.

Dana shares with us where the inspiration for The Forced Joy Project came from, how she dealt with her early grief and the changes she made in her life after Brad died.

We talk about what Brad taught Dana and how she takes that forward with her honouring him in her new life, the importance of creating space for our grief and how it feels to be widowed with no children.

We also discuss how we learn to trust our intuition, the choices we make in life and how we have to ‘do the work’ in grief, plus the world of dating!!! 

It really is jam packed full of wisdom, hope and compassion, Dana is a woman I admire hugely and I know you’ll get so much from listening to this. Enjoy.

If you want to follow Dana on Instagram click on the link below;

https://www.instagram.com/forcedjoyproject/?hl=en

And here is a link to her book of stories,

https://www.forcedjoyproject.com/book-of-stories-intro