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261. Why You Feel Like You Never Have Enough Time (And What to Do About It) (encore)
We're in our new "month of renewal" format. We're essentially exploring this question throughout the month... what if growth required less effort? This is an encore episode that helps us answer this question. Reminder...
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260. Perfectionism Is Stealing Your Balance — Here's How to Take It Back [encore]
We're in our new "month of renewal" format. We're essentially exploring this question throughout the month... what if growth required less effort? This is an encore episode that helps us answer this question. Reminder...
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259. Why Your Brain is Craving Quiet (And What to Do About It) [encore]
We're in our new "month of renewal" format. We're essentially exploring this question throughout the month... what if growth required less effort? This is an encore episode that helps us answer this question. Reminder...
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258. Renewal Without the Hustle: How to Let Growth Happen This Season
We're doing something a little different this month — and a little more of nothing. This is our new "month of renewal" format (happening three times a year in April, August, and December). We're essentially exploring...
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257. Permission to Grieve: How Feeling It All Makes You More Complete
This is it — the finale of our 10-part series on grief, and we're closing with a Gate that might be the most quietly powerful one yet: Other. That's right, the catchall. The one that says: if your loss doesn't fit...
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256. How to Love Fully When You Know Loss Is Coming
Grief doesn't wait for loss to arrive. Sometimes it shows up early — sitting beside you while someone you love is still right there. That's anticipatory grief, and if you've ever felt your mind drift to a future...
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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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