This last weekend, we moved into our Winter Inquiry series designed to explore the light and dark side of matters. AKA... the lightside and shadowside or front of the hand and back of the hand.
This will be the background (and sometimes the foreground) of all the Goddess Living content for the season. We began by exploring the dark and light sides of Joy. After all, the holidays are often referred to as the most Joyful time of the year
On Friday’s Goddess Talk, we opened with a giant leap... the concept of Foreboding Joy, a term coined by Brené Brown in her research about joy. The video we watched and discussed is offered below in This Week's Goddess Practice.
This dialog really opened up the notion of why we so often limit or even reject the experience of joy. It can come with the immediate fear that something bad will happen next. This is the foreboding part. We don’t want to deal with possibly losing it so we limit our experience of JOY! Crazy right?!!
The whole conversation was SO impactful and juicy, we decided to dig down deeper in the Members Inquiry on Saturday. For this, we watched Brené’s longer talk on the whole matter of vulnerability (also in This Week's Goddess Practice below) and how it IS the access to true Joy. The sharing and inquiry that ensued was authentic, rich and vulnerable indeed!
You can watch/listen to the Saturday inquiry meeting below. AND/OR, you can engage in this week's Goddess Living practice to discover what is between YOU and unlimited joy!
Jump into the inquiry!
Saturday's Inquiry Recordings
This Week's Goddess Practice
Access to JOY - Discover Vulnerability
Start by watching the Brené Brown & Oprah discussion about Foreboding Joy on Super Soul Sunday (6m). Journal or discuss with a friend what stands out for you?
Then watch the full TED talk where Dr. Brené Brown dives deep into the research on JOY and distinguishes how we can live a joy filled life through the following practices ..
- Be willing to be SEEN
- Love with your whole HEART
- PRACTICE Gratitude
- BELIEVE you are ENOUGH
In this video, Brené lays out what gets in our way of these things. Don’t just take the easy answers, it’s important to go on the full journey and recognize the dark-side… how we unconsciously hold ourselves back from these life giving practices.
