The Happier You: Empowering Your Journey to a Joyful and Fulfilling Life

In today's episode we are talking about how to take back control of your life and create powerful habits.  Have you ever stopped and wondered how you got here?  Where did all your healthy habits go?  What about that strong healthy body?  Where did it go?  When did you stop taking care of yourself?  In this episode we are talking about how habits can build happiness.  Creating Small daily wins for yourself builds confidence, creates momentum and allows you to celebrate the journey, not just the end goal.  Join us this week as we talk about happiness through habits!

Resources I referenced this week:
Atomic Habits – James Clear
Or check out more episodes and what is going in in The Happier You Community at thehappieryou.net

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

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✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

Have you ever met someone who seemed to be really comfortable living their One True Authentic Life that you felt intimidated?  Well, today I'm interviewing Kyra Wong, and she was that for me a few years ago.  After figuring out what my one true authentic life looks like,  Kyra's incredible "Sparkle and Glitter personality" no longer intimidates me. It inspires me!  I am so thrilled that she agreed to share her journey, her energy and the work she is doing with The Happier You Community in this interview.  Are you ready to embrace your own unique glitter?

Resources I referred to this week:
The Magical Unicorn Project. This is the non profit that Kyra created to help make the world a better place! And she's doing it, check out her website!
Celebrating The Small Wins Challenge - Its not too late, you can still join us for this month's challenge! We've embarked on a 30 day challenge to add a positive habit to our lives in October!

I hope meeting  Kyra and learning about her mission and her energy inspired you to "choose you" and make some changes in your life.
Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

I hope my summer reading List for 2021will motivate you to invest in your future happiness by adding some inspirational reading to your summer plans!  What we read today will take a few years to get implemented in our lives.  The more we stretch and grow now, the happier our future selves will be!  What’s on your summer reading list?  Here are my top 5 recommendations.  Enjoy!  

The Gifts of Imperfection – Brené Brown
Finding Your Own North Star – Martha Beck
Daring Greatly–  Brené Brown
Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline – Becky A. Bailey
Think Like a Monk– Jay Shetty
If none of these call to you, I have other books I love  at The Happier You Resources page
I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Once you choose your summer reading, whether its one of these or something else, I would love for you to share it. 

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

This week's Real People Finding Real Happiness podcast interview is with Christie Parcigneau.  Christie was not only a 21 Day Happiness Challenge participant, she also created the guided meditation during the challenge.   In this episode, Christie gives us some great insight into building our meditation practice.  As well, she shares her biggest take-a ways from the challenge that remind us to celebrate the small wins, ask for what we need and focus on our strengths.  I think you will enjoy getting to know Christie in this episode and see that her guided meditation, positive outlook and infectious laugh will draw you to this incredible woman.

Resources I referred to this week:
Check out Christie's Guided meditations in French and English.
You can learn more about Christie and the healing work that she does at Wheel of Life Wellness.

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

If you want to hear any of the original podcast episodes that were referenced in Christie's 3 biggest take-aways, you can follow these links:

Celebrating The Small Wins
How to Ask For What You Need
Acknowledge Your Strengths

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

This week we are talking about why we need to avoid negativity and the 3 C's to increase happiness.  Negativity is contagious and the 3 Cs of Comparing, Complaining and Criticizing spread that negativity in our lives.  They are so prevalent in our culture that we often don't even realize when we are doing them.   The sooner we identify why and where they show up in our lives, the sooner we can stop them!  Eliminating these negative factors or at least decreasing them will add to our happiness journey.

Resources I referred to this week:
Think Like a Monk - Jay Shetty
21 Day Happiness Challenge Sign Up Page - we'll be starting another one again soon!

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

Today's question we're contemplating is, Does each of us have a limited amount of happiness? Is there only so much happiness to go around?  Are you thinking that because someone else is happy, you can't be? Well guess what?  The answer is, No! In fact, I believe that the more happiness there is, the more there is to share.  More like it's contagious than limited.  I explain my thought process in today's episode.

Resources I referred to this week:
Info I found on the Dynamic Spread of Happiness Study
The Magic Penny Song - Malvina Reynolds
Who Do You Spend Time With? - The podcast episode on how who you spend time with makes a difference
21 Day Happiness Challenge Sign Up Page - we'll be starting another one again soon!

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

This week we are talking about how to find your happiness when it feels like it is just outside your comfort zone!  Many of us don't know where to start because our personal happiness seems elusive and unclear.  How do you try to work towards something when you aren't even sure what that "something" looks like?  Well, today's episode is about exactly that.  What do you do when you don't know where to start.  Come find out my thoughts on when and how is the best way to start your happiness journey.

Resources I referred to this week:
Finding Your Own North Star - Martha Beck
21 Day Happiness Challenge Sign Up Page - we'll be starting another one again soon!


I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

This week's Real People Finding Real Happiness podcast interview is with Teri Murray.   Teri has been on her own happiness journey for over 2 years and I know that you will enjoy learning about her journey.  As Teri shares her biggest take-a ways from the challenge she also encourages us all to try the challenge if we are feeling kinda stuck or feel something is missing!  Teri is a joy to be around.  As you will hear in the interview, her happiness and positive attitude are infectious. 

Resources I referred to this week:
21 Day Happiness Challenge Sign Up Page - don't forget, we're starting early May!
The Original Podcast where we referenced this topic was titled:  How to Change The Negative To Positive

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

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Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

This week is another interview where we find out what practical tools Happiness Community Members got by doing the 21 Day Happiness Challenge.  This week Lisa Parr is our guest and she shares her biggest take aways from the challenge!  Lisa has great energy and I think we can all benefit from the insights she gained during the challenge.  She reminds us that play is not only for kids and we can push the limits at any age.  I think you will really enjoy getting to know Lisa and sharing in her 21 Day Happiness Experience. 

Resources I referenced this week:
The 21 Day Happiness Challenge  Remember we are starting another one in May!
Play Is More Than Just Fun with Dr. Stuart Brown
If you want to know more about Lisa, here's her website: Aboveparrfitness.ca

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!
And remember you can sign up for the next 21 Day Happiness Challenge Here.We’ll be starting another one in May! 

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook