[opposite] joy.

One of my FAVORITE concepts that I have learned around joy is the concept of post-traumatic growth - It's different from resilience, which is the ability to return to how you were before the trauma. PTG is about new growth that can change how you think, live, and function. I believe it is part of what helps us to become what we were create to be.

It may seem counterintuitive, but we shouldn't avoid the hard parts of life - negative experiences and difficult moments. I am not going to go and seek the challenging experiences, but they have a great influence in adding meaning to life - which is an integral part of living a life filled with happiness.

One of the strategies to employ to embrace this concept is "the opposite signal strategy" - there's a great clip about that here from Arthur Brooks. "When you need more love, you need to give more love." - the entire premise of our motto: give joy. feel joy.

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Thank you to the kids from the Young Men of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for volunteering to assemble snack boxes at our headquarters.

Deliveries abound! Several hundred more snack boxes delivered this past month. Thank you to my side-kick Gary (in life and Mattea's Joy) for helping with this month's delivery to Lurie Children's Hospital.

We were honored to help the Women United chapter of United Way of Kankakee & Iroquois Counties in their efforts to place care kits for bereaved parents at The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. What a kind and special was to serve as a part of Infant and Child Loss awareness month.

Some of the episodes by category of the Joy in the Journey podcast 🎧

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