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Embracing Celebration When Life Feels Heavy with Nicole Zasowski
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Joy & celebration can feel like it's for other people but not for you, right? I get it, I've been there before and so has the guest on the podcast today. Nicole has actually been studying this very thing from a personal and Christian family therapist point of view for years and her insight is life changing.
Nicole Zasowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the author of “What If It’s Wonderful?” and “From Lost to Found.” As an old soul who wears her heart proudly on her sleeve, she enjoys writing and speaking on topics that merge her professional knowledge, faith and personal experience. Nicole lives in Connecticut with her husband and their three young children.
Daring Joy takes a fresh approach to studying six familiar women in the Bible—Eve, Sarah, Miriam, Mary the mother of Jesus, Elizabeth and Mary Magdalene—understanding their stories in relationship to the human experience and God’s heart for our joy. It helps us get real life examples of what joy looks like in our lives and what it doesn't look like.
Here is a link to the conversation Nicole and I had last year on the podcast about her book What If It's Wonderful.
Key Takeaways:
- We can be hesitant to embrace joy when we experience a lot of loss
- Joy is the most vulnerable emotion we experience because when you hold something with joy it is automatically accompanied by the possibility of loss
- It can feel safer to not hold joy at all than to risk pain
- We can live a lifestyle of joy & celebration even when our circumstances don’t match up with that
- Sometimes when we are hesitant to celebrate, it’s because we’ve made it about ourselves and not God
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