Joy is the key ingredient for our well-being, relationships, and creativity.

But what is joy? For many, joy seems like the rare feeling on a perfect Saturday afternoon when there’s no work to be done. Or, if you’re like me, like a reward that you have to earn.

I can't tell you how many people I've worked with over the years were almost chronically waiting for joy to come to them. They hoped that if they followed all the rules and worked really hard, joy would magically reveal itself as their reward.

The truth is, real joy is the fuel that keeps you going. Far from a random high, it supports you in achieving your goals while keeping you connected and aligned with yourself.

Leading a life with joy at its center is not a one-time choice; it’s a lifestyle. And while some changes in your life do need massive intervention, becoming more joyful is not one of them.

Today I’m sharing how you can shift your thinking about joy and simple ways to create space in your life for an intentional joy practice. I’m also talking about what my joy practice looks like in this season of my life. Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it’s easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/1

When we don’t prioritize the things, moments, experiences, and interactions that bring us joy, life doesn’t work.

If you don’t take the time to connect with yourself and find out what brings you joy in this season of your life, you miss the important opportunity to build a strong, healthy foundation that sets the stage for you and everyone around you to thrive.

My name is Caroline Zwickson, and I'm an integrative coach and joy mentor with a background in Counseling Psychology. I focus on helping people understand, nurture, and unlock their joy because I have found that when your joy is alive, you almost can't help but create a beautiful, magnetic, and energized life that you can actually sustain in the long run.

To help you adopt a simple joy practice, I created Easy Joy, a 28-day challenge to help you make joy an intuitive, no-fuss focus in your life (you can check it out at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/easy-joy). And lastly, I am also a wife and a mom to 3 sweet and wild kids (2 boys and a girl), a lover of nature and food, and an avid painter.

So yes, my life is pretty full.

And you can trust me when I say that I know firsthand how easy it is for life to get stressful, how quickly our busy-ness can take over, how seamlessly our self-care can slip on the backburner, and how tempting it is to define your worth with an ambitious to-do list.

I believe that the greatest skill one can practice in life (and I really want to emphasize that this is a practice!) is to take one’s ambitions, dreams, hopes, and desires seriously and pursue them with zest and passion AND, AT THE SAME TIME, maintain the ability to see things with a dose of humor, to not take yourself too seriously, to let things roll off your back and maintain your lightness throughout your zig-zag journey.

JOY CLASS is a space where I host insightful conversations with top experts, brilliant thinkers, deep healers, and inspiring creatives to better understand what it takes to create a successful, joy-filled life that doesn't come at the sacrifice of your health, your relationships, or your inner peace.

Let’s Pull Joy In Together.

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it’s easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/podcast