You Deserve Joy!

You want to be happy but why are you denying yourself daily joy?

Why do we deny ourselves joy?? Let’s look at that, so we can figure out this pattern and break it.

We all say that we want to be happy but time and again we deny ourselves joy in our every day lives. Why is that?

Here’s a few reasons that may resonate:

• You feel unworthy of joy. If you don’t believe in your own worth and value you may not make an effort to pursue your own happiness. But this is a story you are telling yourself.  What are the thoughts and feelings behind this that make you think that this story of unworthiness is true? What if you made the conscious decision to believe something different? To live differently? To change the story in your head?

• It has been modeled for you that life is suffering. Perhaps you saw your parents suffer or they told you that success involves sacrifice and suffering. But know this – you are the authority in your own life, not those who have given you advice on how to suffer through life, and you get to say how you live your life. So – what do you want to be true about your life and how you live it? You are the master of your own destiny!

• When you wait for the right time to do the thing, you deny yourself joy. When I have enough money I’ll…, when I have enough time, when I have permission (?!), when I look a certain way, when I get a sign….. There is always a reason not to if you want there to be one. We are very good, too good, at making up reasons not to experience joy. How about there is always a reason and way to experience joy every damn day?!!

What is your reason to experience joy? What is the way you can feel joy today?

Most importantly, what are you waiting for?

Try this: journal on one or more of the reasons we deny ourselves joy above and see what comes up – what story are you telling yourself and how can you override that story today?!

Be Well, Real Well,

Tracey xo