Welcome to ✨The Joy Club Way✨ Playful experiments for midlife women ready to feel more free, more alive, and fully at home in their own lives. Newslet...
tl;dr: After reading this, you will be able to understand the power of changing your mindset towards a play orientation to make your tasks lighter, more enjoyable, more creative. Since I was a child, I have focused on what makes me feel alive. My childhood diaries attest to that. I wrote down moments of great joy, sadness, fear, and excitement. Life seemed to be perpetually interesting. Diary…
I enjoy doing Sudoku puzzles (crosswords not so much). I used to be a middle school math teacher, and to me, there is something soothing about the numbers all working out. So when I saw that a daily, printed Sudoku puzzle was available on our cruise in March, I eagerly grabbed a copy. My 17 year old and I sat down to work on it, something we used to do together when he was younger. Yet, no matter…
It's story time! A fable that explains how our work in the world is connected to our deepest suffering. I have been thinking of a story which came to me a few years ago. There is so much suffering in the world, and yet it seems like we are each equipped to ease the suffering a little bit in our tiny corners. I was trying to share this with my graduate students one day—I wanted to affirm their…