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
#140 What if you don't fill up all your space?
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Not the space in your home but the space in your mind, in your schedule. Do you give yourself a chance to ponder, explore or dream? Do you allow yourself to sit and do nothing and simply receive the gifts from God.
Or do you leave just enough time to get somewhere so you can do one more thing? I'm not judging you. I do this too. But after meditating one morning, I had the aha what if I don't fill up all the space.
So much of our stress is self-induced. Leaving too late, multi-tasking, watching hours of Netflix so we don't have to feel.
What if you create pockets of time where you do nothing? I'm going to take my own advice and do this 3x a day.
Care to join me? Don't think you have time? I bet you have three minutes. Start with one minute each time.
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