I am excited for you to meet my guest Joy Dushey! Years ago she created something called The Joyful Approach, that emerged during a great transformation in her life after suffering with grief and illness. While recovering from a stroke at 29, she began to question how she was living her life and realized that until then, she had been living a life without true meaning.  When she looks back now, the entire process was an awakening. Today she shares her inspiring story and how eventually she found meaning and joy in her life. https://www.talkingjoy.org

Pam talks to Joy Adler who has been a leader in Holistic Health, Healing & Wellness, for over 2 decades. Joy uses her knowledge and training in psychology, energy and the arts to help you attain optimal health. She is also an award-winning singer/songwriter and sound healer and integrates her experience with holistic health into “Music for healing.” If you are going through a tough time, this is the podcast for you--I believe it will help you find hope and encouragement for your journey. Take a listen! https://www.talkingjoy.org

A conversation with Spiritual Teacher and Coach, Rita Desnoyers-Garcia. She helps women have a happier life by making better decisions. You can start today by following her simple steps in her book, The Self-Compassion Project/Workbook. When you're aligned with your purpose, you make great choices that lead to more growth, more life, and more joy. https://www.talkingjoy.org

On this episode Pam asks her team, "what is the one thing you get to do every day that makes you happy?" During our conversation we found that it is the simplest of things that make our days joyful. If we can pause just long enough to notice when someone smiles at us, expresses gratitude or how we feel in our bodies after working out at the Bar Method-Summit. These simple things are all that is needed to live a happy life. https://www.talkingjoy.org

It's been a month since our team checked in during our ten week quarantine in NJ.There is quite a contrast between these two podcasts. In the first one, everyone has mostly positive comments about slowing down and actually feels a little guilty about it. In this episode there are many more struggles. I am sure you can relate, life has become a roller coaster of emotions.

Talking Joy Founder and Spiritual Director, Pam Robertson, and CEO at Life Younique, Kelly Kannwischer - A discussion on how we can stay spiritually centered during this time by turning disruption into transformation.

Pam and her friend, Rev. Amy Sandlin sit down to talk about her hospice work, faith in something greater than ourselves and how to find hope in the unknown. Perhaps we can grow to trust that death is the painful but graceful passage that will bring us face-to-face with the Divine. Fitting for our times and not knowing a pandemic was going to unfold, this podcast was taped in January 2020, airing May 2020. https://www.talkingjoy.org

The Talking Joy team goes Zoom! Since we cant be together in person to record our podcasts, we thought we would check-in on zoom. Today we are talking about family togetherness and finding hope and comfort in the slowing down. We hope you are hanging in there! Sending you our best wishes for health and happiness. https://www.talkingjoy.org

Navigating life's BIG transitions. Talking Joy Team member Jennifer shares a personal story and how she is selling her house after 17 years. This is the space she has raised her big family in. It's hard to let-go. Our advice? Grab a friend who can help and start sorting through your stuff! This led Jennifer to a whole new business called Pare and Polish where she collaborates with you and her friend Dana to streamline and style your closet.

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Fearful? Today we offer helpful strategies you can start using today."Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into prison and slams the doors." ~Max Lucado https://www.talkingjoy.org