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255. How the World's Pain Enters Your Body and What to Do Next
Grief doesn't only come from what happens to us directly. In this episode of our Grief Series, we'll look through the Seventh Gate: Trauma — specifically collective trauma and secondary (vicarious) trauma. We'll break...
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254. How Facing the Harm You've Done Can Set You Free
In this episode of Joy Lab, we'll explore the Sixth Gate of Grief: the grief we carry for harm done to ourselves and others. We'll draw on the expanded framework of Francis Weller's gates of grief to unpack why this...
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253. Breaking the Cycle: Ancestral Grief, Epigenetics, and the Power to Change Your Legacy
What if some of the grief you carry isn't entirely yours? In this episode we'll open what Francis Weller identified as the Fifth Gate of Grief: ancestral grief. We're talking about the unacknowledged, untended sorrows...
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252. Born to Belong: Grieving What Should Have Been There From the Start
What if the loss you're carrying doesn't have a name — no death, no disaster, just a quiet, persistent ache that something was always missing? In this episode of Joy Lab, we'll look at Gate Four of our grief series:...
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251. Why You Can't Escape the Sorrows of the World (and why that's a good thing)
We're diving deep into Francis Weller's third gate of grief: the sorrows of the world. This gate reminds us that collective losses like wars, violence, injustice, and environmental destruction impact us whether we...
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250. Welcoming Back the Parts of You That Have Not Known Love
We're exploring the second gate of grief from Francis Weller's framework: The Places That Have Not Known Love. Unlike the first gate (episode #249)—which dealt with more of the external losses—this gate turns inward...
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249. Everything We Love, We Will Lose: Navigating the First Gate of Grief
In this episode, we're exploring the first of Francis Weller's Five Gates of Grief: "Everything we love, we will lose." This isn't just another depressing truth about life—it's a surprisingly liberating gateway to...
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248. The Grief Series: The Wholeness of Being Human
In this introduction to our 10-part grief series, we'll explain why a podcast about joy is diving deep into grief—and why you can't truly have joy without grief. During this series, we'll mainly lean on Francis...
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247. The Science of Goal Setting: Fit (with self-connection) and Grit (with harmonious passion)
Why do most New Year's resolutions fail by week three? Often because we don't really connect with those resolutions. In this episode, we'll build on our self-connection series to see how that work of connecting with...
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246. The Power of Self-Alignment & Reclaiming Your True Self
We're talking about self-alignment today—the final piece of our self-connection series and perhaps the most challenging. What does it really mean to be "comfortable in your own skin"? More than just knowing yourself...
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245. Stop Waiting to Accept Yourself: The Truth About Unconditional Self-Acceptance
Most of us are wait to accept ourselves after we achieve our goals—after we get that award, land the job, or fix that flaw. But this approach keeps us trapped in an endless cycle of unworthiness. In this...
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244. The Practice of Self-Awareness: Why You're Worth Knowing
Are you self-aware? Thankfully, it's not a yes or no question. Self-awareness is the practice of knowing yourself without judgment and it isn't a one-and-done achievement. It's a lifelong practice that exists on a...
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