Finding Joy in the Hard
Finding Joy in the Hard is a weekly podcast about how we meet life when it stretches us — in grief and growth, in ordinary struggles and unexpected turns.
In short minisodes, I share honest reflections, gentle nervous system awareness, and simple embodied practices to help you steady yourself when things feel uncertain.
From time to time, I sit down with guests who have walked through difficulty and found light in the dark and joy in the hard.
I’m your host, Suzanne Andora Barron — yoga and meditation teacher, Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner, and writer. Through breath, awareness, and simple practices, I help people ease tension and reconnect to their inner steadiness.
Finding Joy in the Hard
#109 Are you beating yourself up because you said or did the wrong thing?
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Welcome back to Finding Joy in the Hard.
Let the guilt go.
If you said or did the wrong thing, you can say you're sorry. But guess what? No one else probably noticed.
And if they did, they noticed it for a second and moved on.
Why can't we? Because our minds like torturing us. That's its safe place. But what the world needs more is your heart. The world needs us to shine.
The world needs us to be ourselves.
Why is it so hard to be us?
It should be the simplest thing ever, but a lot of us are wired to look out, to look out and check and see if we're okay by other people's standards.
And you know what? We can never be okay by other people's standards because they're not us and they don't know what's best for us.
So if you find yourself today getting stuck on that track, pause, breathe, and notice something beautiful about you. It will be hard at first, especially if you're used to giving yourself a hard time.
But we have to start somewhere. We are beautiful human beings. You are a beautiful human being. Allow yourself to shine.
My healing tip for today helps calm the nervous system.
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