Your Weekly Dose of Joy: Fiction, Musk Oxen, and Bears
Weekly Joy A little bit of Joyful Support directly in your inbox! This week we are embracing and exploring the joy of fiction. There is something so fun about getting lost in another world can be so magical and full of joy. So to jump of this week we want to know: How do you consume the most fiction? Books TV Movies Other (if you choose this please respond with what it is so I can keep track!) Joy Happenings This week on the blog, Lacey makes the case for having the joy of a beach read all…
Joy of Beach Reads
Summertime is filled with many clichés, but one of my favorites is the concept of a Beach Read. A beach read is a book you read purely for fun and joy. It’s a book designed for reading quickly during long stretches of time.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret –
I only read beach reads.
Your Weekly Dose of Joy: Inside Jokes, Pet Name Palooza, and Home Quests
Weekly Joy A little bit of Joyful Support directly in your inbox! Inside jokes make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The shared history of something you experienced with another can be such a gift. And from those shared experiences, we sometimes end up with funny nicknames. We will explore joyful support through funny nicknames this week. Joy Happenings From Sara: After years of hearing my friend and her husband call one another ‘Baby Das’, I finally asked ‘What is that from?’ It went back over…
The Power of Names in Home Management
In my Communication degree, one of the first lessons I learned was that we give meaning to words. We usually associate two types of meanings with words: denotation, which is the literal dictionary definition, and connotation, which is the additional meanings we assign to words. These additional meanings can be thought of as the emotional […]
Your Weekly Dose of Joy: Velociraptors, Dogs on Skateboards, and Secret Talents.
Weekly Joy A little bit of Joyful Support directly in your inbox! We adore talent shows. The purity of sharing what comes naturally to you and knowing it may bring joy to others is some good clean fun. There is also a level of bravery that comes along with talent shows – showing up and sharing your gift with the world takes courage! This week we explore joyful support through fun talents and party tricks. Joy Happenings Sara’s Secret Talent Sara is going to share a secret talent. Ok, not a…
Your Weekly Dose of Joy: You’re a Super Hero, We’re your Sidekick
Weekly Joy A little bit of Joyful Support directly in your inbox! My family loves superheroes. On a daily basis, we talk about Spidey and his Amazing Friends, the Hulk, or my favorite, Wonder Woman. It’s to the point that last night during dinner, my husband started playing a song, and before it even registered with me, my 3-year-old daughter yelled out, “Batman!” It brought my husband so much joy because his favorite is Batman. This week, our joyful prompt is asking about what superpower…
Captain Chronic Illness Super Hero Origin Story
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Human Design with Adriana Keefe
It is no secret that we love Adriana. It is her Human Design course that Lacey and Sara met. Listen to Human Design with Adriana Keefe
Your Weekly Dose of Joy: Beginnings, Endings, and a Challenge
Weekly Joy A little bit of Joyful Support directly in your inbox! Life is about beginnings and endings, and this week we are feeling that hard. As season 2 of No Shame in The Home Game comes to an end, we are thinking about the bittersweet nature of endings. There are so many photos of the end of the school year and graduation that it’s definitely bittersweet for parents. We see you – whether it’s a good or bad ending, we can always count on a new beginning coming next (like our call for…
Your Weekly Dose of Joy: Get Recognized, Lucky Socks, and Transformation
Weekly Joy A little bit of Joyful Support directly in your inbox! This week, we had a significant realization about one of the things that we genuinely want you to get out of The Joyful Support Movement: To Feel Seen. Whether that is in a story we share or a step you can take, we want you to know your experience is valid, noticed, and you’re not alone. We don’t pretend to know your challenges or how to fix them all, but we want to be a safe space for them to exist. Our hope is that by being…