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The Resilient Joy Podcast
This is the Resilient Joy podcast, where Danet Peterson and Kensi Evans explore building resilient joy, inside and out.
Kensi and Danet believe joy is the sum of our life's collective experiences. It is the overarching theme as we experience the entire gamut of human emotions. Our ability to feel, experience, and maintain joy as we go through life's challenges, attests to the resilience of the human spirit. The presence of joy does not mean there is an absence of pain, challenging/uncomfortable emotions, or conflict, but rather, demonstrates the reality that joy is the ability of individuals to make meaning and maintain hope in all circumstances, highs and lows.
"Resilience is built in every day choices to get back up when life knocks you down." - Danet
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Episodes
27 episodes
Brighter Community Resources with Kensi
Hey there! This episode hear more about the nonprofit Brighter Community Resources - and how they co-founded this incredible organization. Check out their website to learn more here: https://brightercommunity.org/
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New Cancer Treatment - Hepzato Kit
In this episode, Kensi interviews Danet about her journey this year since April 2025 with an FDA approved treatment called Hepzato Kit - a treatment of chemo to the entire liver that is unique to her cancer only so far. (hopefully one day it'll...
Cancer Recurrence and Insurance Battles
In this episode, Danet and Kensi talk through Jan - March of Danet's battle with insurance for coverage of histotripsy for her liver tumors found on Dec 31 2024. This vulnerable episode is an attempt to give voice to just how much D...
Strategic Incompetence - aka Choose What to Bomb
Hey friends! We're back! We took a bit of a break during the holidays, and then with Danet's treatment schedule going a bit haywire, we just had to slow down in the podcast department. In this episode, Kensi and Danet cha...
Happy Halloween- ACOTAR Style
In this episode, Danet and Kensi talk about their love of reading, the joy they find in a good book, and some of their most recent faves- the ACOTAR series! Join us for this book-club-feel chat, and if you have any book suggestions for us, let ...
Integrity and Integration
Kensi and Crystal continue their conversation regarding healing. We talk about what it means to be integrated and share personal examples of what it looks like to not be integrated. Crystal helps us understand how being integrated is tied to ou...
Embracing Self-Compassion
In this episode, Kensi interviews her friend, Crystal on the lessons she has learned throughout her life. She shares her experiences with learning to offer herself compassion rather than criticism, beginning to recognize her wants and needs and...
Certainty and Uncertainty
In this episode Kensi and Danet talk about the complimentary and dissonant qualities of our need for both certainty and uncertainty, how we can better create empowering certainty and uncertainty in our lives, and how we can practice tolerating ...
Your go-to Self-Care Menu
In today’s episode, Danet and Kensi discuss some foundational self- care practices. Self-awareness and self-compassion being the central components in those practices. As a reference, we use a list of self-care needs for optimal functioning tha...
Getting to know Danet - Resilient Joy 2.0
In this episode, Kensi, newly minted co-host, interviews Danet about her life to date. Areas covered in this introductory episode to rebrand the Resilient Joy podcast as a co-hosted podcast: 1. Where are you at in life...
Getting to know Kensi! New co-host!
Tune in to learn a little about Kensi, the other co-host of The Resilient Joy Podcast.This episode will cover some of the same questions Kensi asked Danet, but we'll get Kensi's take on it!Fun fact! Danet actually spent all of m...
Parenting and Stage IV Cancer
Danet Peterson, a nearly 4 year ocular melanoma survivor and host of the Resilient Joy Podcast, discusses navigating the stage IV recurrence of uveal melanoma with another ocular melanoma parent and friend, Lindsay Brown. Tune in t...
E15 What's been going on--Integrative Cancer Therapy
Hi all! It's been a while! A hot minute. I wish I could have kept up with continuing my own podcast but in the midst of kids getting sick, a stage IV cancer diagnosis, and my job working for a nonprofit to aid research, and help patients with t...
Episode 14: Kreacher and other little monsters
In this episode, Danet explores how our emotions, usually the perceived "negative" ones, do far less damage when we allow them space and validate them, than if we ignore and stifle our emotions. Like Kreacher, and the little monster from a stor...
Episode 13: Christmas Gift hiding places (better late than never)
On this episode, Danet shares from posts and polls the many clever ideas for where to hide gifts for your kiddos so they won't be found. This month flew by too fast--apologies for the lateness of this episode!Overall lesson to be learne...
Episode 12: Developing Resilience through a skin cancer diagnosis
The Resilient Joy Podcast is joined by Leah Adams, speaking about her journey with skin melanoma, as well as her family's journey as a whole. Her dad is currently battling stage 4 skin melanoma. Leah urges everyone she comes ...
Episode 11: Complicated and Boundaries; parenting edition
In this episode, Danet shares how setting some personal boundaries in parenting with school homework have helped save her sanity as a mom. ;) Also, some working through some complicated unexpected emotions!
Episode 10: No one has the emotional range of a teaspoon
In this episode, Danet shares about the EMDR therapy session of processing heavy fears about the future and comes to an important conclusion: You can never protect the people you love from their feelings. We all have to FEEL our feelings to bui...
Episode 9: Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself
In this episode, Danet talks about facing your fears, and processing the emotion behind fear."Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself." Albus DumbledoreHow to FEEL your fearI feel fear a lot these days--maybe y...
Episode 8: Facing the Unknown
Let's talk about certainty, and uncertainty, and how you can't have one without the other!Both certainty and uncertainty are part of the 6 human needs (disclaimer, learned this from Brad Bizjack who learned it from Tony Robbins).
Episode 7: Sorting Hats (and when to set them down)
In this episode, I talk about releasing our identity as defined by the hats we wear, what we do, and practicing self love and grace in tricky seasons!
Episode 6: Creating a morning routine
Morning Mastery E BOOK LINK to follow along in this episode! https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5fb81b247f165b94ed6386b6 subscribe and get it emailed to your inbox!Are you a morning person? Or a night owl?-Regardl...
Episode 5: Summer Mojo!
How do you stay motivated, especially in summer? I've been getting this question a lot lately! So I figured we could talk about it! I have to stop relying solely on willpower and hack my habits. Having a set plan and p...
Episode 4: PPD, Miscarriage (my story part 1)
Taking a walk down memory lane to walk you through some of the seasons of life I've gone through, some of what helped me in those seasons, and why I want to continue sharing what I have learned through all the crazy--why I look back now and see...