How to Create Joy on Purpose (w/ Dr. Sue McCreadie)

In today’s episode of Joyfully You, we’re diving deep into sustainable happiness, emotional mastery, and how to create a joyful life on purpose — not by accident.

I’m joined by the radiant Dr. Sue McCreadie, a physician-turned-holistic happiness mentor who helps midlife women reconnect with their joy, vitality, and purpose through mind–body–soul alignment. And omg… our pre-convo had me buzzing, and the episode is even sweeter.

We talk about:

~ How joy is something we create, not something we wait for
~ Why “beautiful states” are available to us even in the messiness
~ Midlife as a “second adolescence” — and why that’s actually empowering
~ Emotional discernment: when to shift your state vs. when to sit with a feeling
~ Tools for processing emotions so they don’t swirl and stay stuck
~ How to come back to joy again and again… sustainably

Plus, some really tender moments about shame, self-loathing, play, and what it actually feels like to meet yourself in the full spectrum of being human.

This episode feels like a warm hug and a gentle hype session. I know you’re gonna love it.

💃 What You’ll Learn

• The difference between “fleeting happiness” and renewable joy
• Why shifting your physiology first is the easiest way to change your emotional state
• How kids naturally model sustainable joy (and what adults can steal from them!)
• How to identify when an emotion still needs to be felt, heard, or honored
• Simple tools for emotional resilience you can use anytime, anywhere

 Connect with Dr. Sue

Website: https://www.drsuemccreadie.com/

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Transcript

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Sue: Sustainable, right, to me is something that you can return to again and again. It's lasting, you know, it's, it's renewable. It's something that isn't just like a fleeting moment in time, right? It has this level of genuine, like not putting on a mask. We're not putting on a mass and pretending we're happy, like we're genuinely.

Sue: Sustainably happy. It doesn't mean we don't have moments where you trip down and like fall and smear ourselves in the mud, right? And then we're like, oh, here I'm again. You know? What's up world? Welcome to Joyful You. I'm your host, Amy Dickens, professional joy maker, part-time goofball, and full-time believer that adults deserve recess.

Sue: Too. I'm here to reconnect you with joy and play so you can show up as your most vibrant reel and ridiculously yourself. This podcast is your permission slip to be silly. Shake off the blahs and remember that play isn't just for kids. It's actually how we come back to life. And yes, we're gonna get goofy as hell while we do it.

Sue: We'll be diving into the good stuff, [00:01:00] chatting with inspiring guests who are experts in play, bringing more lightness, creativity, and fun into the world, and exploring why play isn't just. I'm nice to have. It's literally essential for your wellbeing. So wherever you're at in your life journey, welcome and let's dive on in and have some fun.

Sue: Woo. Hello. Hello everyone. I'm your host, Amy Dickens. Welcome to Joyful You. Today we have Dr. Sue McCready here. I am so just like buzzing with excitement, but I don't know, just being with you. I'm feeling like already so in my heart and I'm so excited. Chat with you today. Dr. Sue is a physician turned holistic happiness mentor for midlife women, helping them reconnect to their joy, their vitality, their purpose, through this mind, body, soul alignment, and just actually enjoying all the chapters of your life.

Sue: And our pre-conversation was so sweet and I'm so excited to get into how we create joy in [00:02:00] our life. Not by chance, but choice and you know, really choosing the meaning and all how to create. Stable happiness is basically what we're getting all into today and what's really happening and behind the scenes to create that.

Sue: So, so happy to have you here, Sue. Oh, beautiful. Amy, thank you for having me. I love your energy. It's very fun. It's very playful. Um, yeah, I love it. Um, yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay, so just to get into the foundations of joy, I am just really excited to pick your brain here a little bit. So when you say we create joy, what does that mean?

Sue: Mm-hmm. And is like, it's not something that we just wait for and, you know, like hope that, you know, it comes on our front porch or something. And how, how does that, how does that feel for you? And like when you explain it? Yeah. As you're talking about that, it reminds me about when I was younger, I thought that.

Sue: Like joy happens to you. And I actually like when you [00:03:00] were speaking, I was thinking about a memory I, little known fact about Dr. Sue. She used to play in a traveling orchestra to to Europe and I was in this traveling orchestra and we would stay with all these abroad families and there was this one girl.

Sue: I can't remember her name. I think her, I cannot remember her name right now. I think it might be Amy.

Sue: I honestly think her name might be Amy. Anyways, I started noticing this pattern that each time, like each city, we would get dropped off and we would be with a new like, um, family that we would be staying with. It was like every time Amy had the best family, she had the best time. She was always. Joyful.

Sue: And I was like, what's up with Amy? Is that just luck? Like how is this happening? Right? And so I think that that's just how I believe that most of us, until we come to the realization that we actually create our emotions, most of us just think joy happens when good things happen, [00:04:00] right? Like that's kind of the formula.

Sue: Joy happens when good things happen. What if though, actually you create your joy and that's how joy happens. And. So I know you're all about that, Amy. And so, more recently when I started discovering about how we create our own emotions, I realized like the importance of, you know, honing this skill during our forties, fifties, and sixties, otherwise known as midlife.

Sue: You're actually a young adult until you're 39, which I was like, snap, snap. I would never think of a 39-year-old as a young adult. However, technically you're still in young adulthood. Middle adulthood is forties, fifties into mid sixties, and then there's the others. So anywho, I thought this would be a great time to really master that because there's so many changes and I think of midlife like a second adolescent, which everybody listening has been through adolescence, which.

Sue: Felt like [00:05:00] what for you, Amy, like what did adolescence feel like for you? Can you give some descriptor words for it? Wow. Okay. Lemme, lemme tap back into it. I feel like adolescence was really hard. I, I feel like I was numbing out a lot during that numbing. Yeah. Like so, and like I didn't have the tools to know anything.

Sue: And so I was just like, ah, too much. Let me just stay busy, like overeat, you know? Just like, I don't know, just be like distracting. All of the time from this like storm of transformation happening within Really? Yeah, that's true. There is like a storm and I think of it as like all these physiological, hormonal changes are happening during adolescence and like we feel stretch and we feel pulled and we feel uncomfy and our bodies and it's like literally.

Sue: It is transforming from girl to woman, from boy to man, and you're not really like comfortable in the new suit. [00:06:00] Essentially. You're also trying to figure out like your identity, like who am I in this world? What am I gonna do? How am I gonna earn money? Right. You're also probably navigating relationships.

Sue: You may have your first heartbreak, right? You may have your first intimate relationship and first heartbreak and feel that. And so there is just this kind of avalanche of emotioning happening and navigating that water, I feel is very similar for midlife. So if your listeners are not yet into midlife, it feels very similar.

Sue: Hormones are changing. Bodies feel uncomfy. Relationships are changing identities changing careers can change, right? And so all this change can create an onslaught of. So it's a beautiful time to really what I call mental emotional mastery. 'cause mental mastery is associated with emotional mastery. And the way I see that is this, um, I learned from a mentor of mine, Tony Robbins, this concept of, of how we [00:07:00] create our emotional state.

Sue: And I kind of created this little triangle to help me memorize it. So. For instance, let's take an instance. Amy, you can be our little Guinea pig here. Think of a time back when you felt joyful. Like, can you, it doesn't, you don't even have to tell me what the memory is, but I just want you to be in that moment in time.

Sue: It could have been yesterday. It could have been five years ago. It could have been during your childhood. Are you at that memory? I'm in it. All right. Awesome. Now tell me, what are you focusing on in that moment? Are you focused on what's going right or what's going wrong? Totally focused on what's going right.

Sue: Yeah. Are you focused on what you can control or what you can't control? What I can control. Yeah. And are you focused on like the present moment or are you somewhere like trapped in the past or worried about the future? Totally present. Yeah. Totally present in the present moment. So it's like. [00:08:00] Those are kind of the keys, right?

Sue: And, and, and now like the other, so the thing is like, what are you focusing on that's really important for creating an emotion? What you focus on the next, like I want you to go back to that moment, like close your eyes again. And I want you to think about like the meaning you were giving that experience you were having, or like what were you saying in your head or out loud?

Sue: Can you remember any of like the language or the meaning you had around that experience? I can't remember like specifically like some languaging I like exactly used in that moment. Yeah. But something along the lines of, uh, it was like kind of like, this is what I came here to do. Like this is what came here.

Sue: Oh, I love that. Oh, I love that. Like, so, like, I feel like that's empowering, that's empowering language. It's like you found it, like you stumbled upon it. Like you've got it like this is it, I'm, this is me. Okay. And then can you remember, like, close your eyes again and remember like what were you doing with your body?

Sue: Like what, [00:09:00] what was happening with your body at your time at that time? Definitely I'm like on my feet and like in that Amy is animated and excited and I like all over the place and I'm like over here and I'm like, and then we're up here. That's so great. Yeah, like so. So the, so it's a triangle, right? So what you focus on, like you point to your head like, what is my brain focusing on now?

Sue: What's the language that I'm saying to myself or out loud? Or what kind of meaning am I giving the situation? And then you're, the bottom of the triangle is your body, like what are you doing with your body? And out of all of that shoots in emotion. So that emotion you were feeling at that time was joy or somewhere along that spectrum, like high energy vibes.

Sue: Right. Okay. Now let's just prove this point and I want you to go to a moment that didn't feel so great. Maybe it was a moment where you felt overwhelmed [00:10:00] or frustrated or sad, or any of those kind of emotions that we angry. Anything that you wanna get out of pretty quickly, like it's pretty uncomfortable.

Sue: And then when you're there, let me know when you're there to that moment. Could have been yesterday, last week, years ago. I'm there. Okay. Now I want you to tell us what are you focused on in this moment? Are you focused on what's going right or what's going wrong? A hundred percent is focused on what's going wrong.

Sue: I said like, are you focused on what you can control or what you can't control? Or what I can control. Yeah. And are you focused on the actual present moment? Are you more like tripped up by the past or worried about the future? Yeah, definitely not present. Like kind of in the, the swirl of the swirl of it all.

Sue: Yeah. Awesome. And then were you, were you saying any particular things like to yourself out loud? [00:11:00] Anything that you can remember, any meaning that you were giving that experience that you were having? Like, this always happens to me. I suck. Why does this always happen? Like anything like that? Yeah. I would guess it was something along the lines of like, I can't do this.

Sue: I don't believe in myself. I'm not, who do I think I am? Do this. Yeah. And then in that moment, can you remember what you were doing with your body? Was your head in your hand? Were your shoulders slumped? Were you kind of like in a ball? Like what? What do you think you were doing in that moment? Can you remember?

Sue: Definitely like really like slumped forward, like horrible posture. Yeah. Contracted. Usually we're contracted and so these are, this is how we can create our emotions based on what we're focusing on. The meaning that we're giving to the experience or the language, what we're saying to ourselves, and then our physiology, what we're doing with our body, and then outshoots an emotion.

Sue: To me, that's where sustainable happiness, sustainable joy. Not [00:12:00] that we're not ever gonna feel these other emotions, like yes, we're gonna have self-loathing and just like horrible things that we don't wanna feel. And also though we can work our way through it by shifting our focus, shifting the meaning and the fastest way out of like an emotion that we don't wanna feel is actually shifting our physiology.

Sue: Like probably a lot of things that you support and, you know, teach Amy, I'm guessing like play, like jump up and down. Yeah. Go skip down the road. Like take a few breaths like, you know, go hug your child or a friend or your partner. Like anything to like shift your, some people like that whole splash your face, like take a shower, brush your teeth.

Sue: Anything that really shifts your physiology is the fastest way to shift your emotional state. And so to me that is just like a fun, playful way to remember. And I do it [00:13:00] all the time. Like when I'm kind of in a disgruntled state, I'll just stop myself and be like, Sue, what are you focused on? What meaning are you grad?

Sue: What are you doing with your body right now? And then like shifted. So like if I'm in the kitchen and I'm like. Gotta make another meal. Some people gotta eat. I want us to eat healthy. You know, it's not my favorite thing. It's like, okay, well take a breath, ask for support, maybe can come help you, you know, put some music on dance, right?

Sue: So there's all these ways that we can shift to change our emotional state so it feels better, more playful. Yeah, absolutely. I'm also a big Tony Robbins person, so I'm all, I'm all about all of these things, like the physiology first with the play. 'cause it's like, we know, I feel like a lot of us know, okay, it's like we are what we focus on and like it's like mm-hmm focus shift the meaning.

Sue: But it, to me, it's like when you shift your physiology, it's become so much easier to shift what you're focused. [00:14:00] Shift the meaning versus almost like doing it reverse. 'cause it's like, oh, I'm just kind of more naturally noticing that when I shift my physiology to being dancing or playing or just something that's moving different.

Sue: Oh, now I don't have to work. So use so much willpower, like focus on something different. Amy. Like, make a new me. It's like, oh yeah. See the new way. So much more easeful. I'm curious with, because like of course we're full spectrum humans, like we're not supposed to be. Mm-hmm. Like. A one note, I'm just happy all day long and I never experienced anything else.

Sue: And I find I call like the discernment bit of knowing when it's to shift and when it's like, oh wait, this is actually just like a feeling that wants to like be felt pregnant right now. Mm-hmm. What would you, how do you navigate like that discernment that, and what does that look like for you of, Hmm.

Sue: What you like would say to somebody else and like, I don't know, like how to really tell the difference yet of when it's time to shift [00:15:00] and when it's time to be like, man, I just need to like feel this for a sec. Yeah, that's such a great question. I think, I mean, I had some self-loathing yesterday for sure, and to me it feels like if I keep coming back to that emotion, if I keep feeling that emotion wanting to surface, right?

Sue: So. Generally, like I think of e motion as energy and motion. They wanna move. So if they haven't been fully expressed or fully felt, or the message fully delivered to you so that you can learn what the mess, what, what the emotion has to say on the matter, right then it's gonna keep bubbling up, keep bubbling up, keep bubbling up, it gonna keep swirling like you're gonna keep coming back to it.

Sue: So this was happening to me yesterday, so I was working on this emotion. Did a little bit in the morning, like journaling. I do tarot, numerology, and like morning astrology, kind of grounding and centering myself. Digging in. Those are tools that I use. You could use anything like [00:16:00] breath work, meditation, coloring, like whatever works for you to sort of get into more of a subconscious state.

Sue: And so I got some, I got some input, right? And, and then I went on with my day. But then in the afternoon it kept bubbling up again, right? Like I feel like, oh, it wasn't fully heard. Like it need, it wants, it wants to be heard more. So that's my discernment. Like if it just keeps bubbling up. Yeah. Then it hasn't been fully expressed, right?

Sue: Yes. So then what I did is I, um, used a tool, like did some journaling around the emotion, then did an emotion centered meditation so it could express, then it came back up and I was like, okay, like I had deeper insight into it. Right? And then of course, like de depending on the type of emotion that you're having, especially if you're having self-loathing or shame or some of those really like I am bad type of feelings.

Sue: Um, you wanna express them to people that you totally [00:17:00] trust, right? Mm-hmm. So I have kind of my little sacred pod people where I just jumped on and I was like, okay, here's where I am, right? So I like fully just express all of it so they can hold that safe container for me. That's how I really discern because.

Sue: To me, it just, it still keeps bubbling up. And then today I feel great. I feel like, okay, integrated that emotion. Okay, I acknowledged it. I see you like I see you. And also there's this, right, there's this and there's also that. Now Tony Robbins says it, it is like what's going wrong is always there and so is what's going right.

Sue: You know? Yeah. Like what are you focused on? Are you just focused on how you mess that whole thing up? Are you gonna focus on like how you're a beautiful being and a light and doing great things in the world, right? Like what are you gonna focus on? So, yeah. Yeah. So finally, yeah, that's where I feel the discernment is.

Sue: And to me, my experiences, the more self-development I do, the more I work on myself. The quicker I can use my tools, like I, I literally think as like a medicine [00:18:00] bag, right? 'cause I'm a medical doctor, I think of like my little medicine tool bag, my little, or like my medicine cabinets, like which 1:00 AM I gonna pull out today to really help me process this emotion?

Sue: Um, and, and I think that's the beauty of doing personal development and you just continue to do it faster and quicker. So you're not like swimming in that like, I used to swim in these emotions. For decades, like a long time, you know? And now it's like, hmm. See it, honor it, ask its message, you know, so that you can hear the message and honor it and move forward.

Sue: Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's like a carpenter with their tools. It's like someone who's like just learning how to pick up a hammer, he knows how to do. A lot less different. Someone's like, oh, I've been a carpenter for like 20, 30, 40 years. They can just like do amazing things with that thing. I'm like, oh my God, I didn't even know you could do that with a hammer.

Sue: Like that's amazing. But it's the same thing with our, our. Where over time we, I think build more [00:19:00] skillfulness. And it's not to like shame people. They're like, I'm just a beginner. I dunno. It's like, no, you're perfectly exactly where you're at. And I think that what you say about, you know, especially when you're experiencing something that's maybe shameful or I am bad or any emotion, honestly.

Sue: Because I think sometimes we can like feel, say anger towards someone, but then have the shame on top of that because like, oh, I feel like mm-hmm. And then Aidan expressing that and someone's like, oh, hey, like this isn't like an like as shameful of a thing because it's a, like I'm saying, saying it's safe to share this, it's safe to be seen in this.

Sue: And then it's almost, yeah, it's a human experience that we all feel. Absolutely. Yeah. Thanks so much for sharing that. I'm curious how you would define sustainable happiness. I know there's like mm-hmm. Definition. Be kind of tricky. Mm-hmm. But how you would put words to it. Sustainable. Right. To me is, is something that [00:20:00] you can return to again and again.

Sue: It's lasting, you know, it's, it's renewable. It's something that, you know, isn't just like, um, a fleeting moment in time. Right. And it has this level of. Genuine. Like not putting out a mask. We're not putting out a mask and pretending we're happy, like we're genuinely sustainably happy. It doesn't mean we don't have moments where you trip down and like fall and smear ourselves in the mud, right?

Sue: And then we're like, oh, here I am again. You know? Um, that's what I mean by that. Like something that we can come back to again and again, the majority of the time we spend there, um, if we cut off our arm in one moment in time, we're gonna regrow it. Right. Metaphorically speaking. Yeah. Like we can really trip ourselves up and know that we can always get back to this with Tony, Tony Robbins, you know, since you're, you love Tony.

Sue: You're like, I love Tony. It's just like, he calls it a beautiful state, [00:21:00] you know? Beautiful state is a loving state. It's a joyful state. It's a peace filled state. A state of high vibes, right? Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Kind of like letting that joy. Feel more sustainable. 'cause it's not completely dependent on your external circumstances.

Sue: There's mm-hmm. That, that, okay, I can create a beautiful state no matter what, no matter where I am that's available to me. And realizing, you know, I feel like I've been in certain moments where I've really been in not a beautiful state, and it's the same exact moment that somebody else right next to me.

Sue: Having this incredible moment. I was hiking in India years ago and I was like, uh, it's hot. Like I'm tired. And I'm like, Ugh. One step in front of the other, got like a wet towel over my head. I'm just like drenched in sweat. And this little girl, she sees two inches of water falling down the path, like it's the smallest thing.

Sue: She goes, oh, water fall. And she's putting her [00:22:00] hands in it into her. She's experiencing, oh, that's so beautiful. Struggle and it just like, it was like 12 years ago, I think that I experienced this and that lives in my head rent free. So I realize. We were two beings in the same exact moment. And before that I was in like total like exhaustion and just tired and just, and she was in the full awe and wonder of something that seemed totally mundane to me.

Sue: I'm like, wow, okay. I wonder, I think that's too, you know, I'm a pediatrician by training. I love kids and I think they are such beautiful teachers for us of learning how to be in a joyful state. Um, yeah. Especially little ones, right? Like they can fall and tumble and cry and like that. They stand back up and like the next second they're like laughing and like they're belly juggling and like they're wobbling all around.

Sue: You know, they just have like a memory of a goldfish, like, you know, they just forget it yesterday and then they jump back into [00:23:00] awe and wonder and play. And so I love that story, Amy and I, I think that's also something that. Really valuing. Another thing that I like is really teaching about the value of play.

Sue: Yeah. Like physiologically, what play has been shown to do is increase dopamine, which helps you. Um, connect with others. It imp it improves your product productivity, it improves your resilience. Like there's so many things that it benefits. And so I feel like us valuing play like kids do could be really supportive and just, even if that looks like leaning into awe and wonder, like looking outside instead of just seeing the same backyard like.

Sue: What is just like, what would a kid see? Like what would a kid be in awe over, you know, instead of just like passing [00:24:00] the bunny, like talk to the bunny, be like, Hey, how are you? Like just that more, you know, just a playful, like it's a miracle. I feel like that's what it is. It's like seeing the miracle of just life itself rather than just the same mundane thing.

Sue: Yeah, absolutely. I, as you were saying, that there was like a light bulb moment where I feel like as adults, I think we kind of do understand that play is so important for children as though like the story that we have. 'cause you know, it's like your kids in a funk or something. You're like, like almost every adult says like, go run around outside, go play.

Sue: Like that's like what they're telling them to help them shift. But there's not that like connective like, oh, maybe I also need to like go play or like move my body. I'm not feeling so groovy either. Like it's not just for the little ones. Yeah. That's so great. Like we're good at dosing out that medicine for little ones and not so great often at doing it for [00:25:00] ourselves.

Sue: Like I know I'm guilty of it too. Like just that whole like play is silly. It's not essential. And though, yeah, then when you look and you're like, oh wait, it's gonna increase my productivity. Like, wait, maybe I should value play. Like I get to value play. I get to. Um, and I like to find like little ways of just integrating into my day.

Sue: So when I do my morning journaling, I started like learning how to draw little easy things. Like I'll just look up easy draw, airplane, you know, so that when my girls took and I took a girl's weekend to New York City, like I drew a little airplane and I bought up my markers and I like colored it in and like I showed my girls and I were like, mom, this is so cool.

Sue: And it's actually. It's just fun to play. Like that to me is play. It's colorful and it's a really important tool for tapping into your subconscious. This is like looking for all the ways that you get out of your head, right? Mm-hmm. And into another layer [00:26:00] of, you know, deeper. What really is driving your life is your subconscious, those conscious, subconscious beliefs and thoughts and patterns that are driving your behavior.

Sue: And therefore your current results, let that be a motivator to play because that's another way you can access it, is through just drawing and journaling and meditating and yeah, it's beautiful. Absolutely all of it. So many beautiful little tendrils in there. All right, so if somebody's listening and they're thinking, I'm drained, I'm overwhelmed.

Sue: So I can't even see the joy right now. What's like the one tiny action or where would you I like, suggest to them to start? Um, sometimes in personal development, we like to say, ask a better question. Right? Yeah. So ask a better question, get a better answer. Yes, totally. Get a better [00:27:00] strategy, get a better result.

Sue: Right. So like, what should I do right now? You know, if I'm feeling really overwhelmed, I think a great question is what would love do? Mm, yeah. What would love do? Yeah. Because naturally our, our natural state, I believe, is a loving state, right? And that's why all these other emotions feel like. Really uncomfy because it's not like our natural state to be in doesn't feel peace filled and loving.

Sue: And so asking the question like, what would love do, I think can give some pretty profound answers. Like sometimes love would say, go take a nap. You know? Or Yeah. Love might say like, go eat something before you respond. Yeah. Love might say like, pick up the phone and, and forgive and maybe you'll, you know.

Sue: Feel less overwhelmed by the situation when you just own up to your responsibility in the part, right? So I just think the options are endless when you ask the question, what would love [00:28:00] do? And I think it naturally brings back a more, you know, playful, loving part of you to get a better, you know, perspective and therefore a better procedure moving forward, A more playful, loving, joyful, one most likely.

Sue: That's a beautiful answer. 'cause it's so empowering as well. Mm-hmm. Like, you're not saying this is the thing to do, it's like, oh no, you have the answers. Just you have the answer. Hey, shift the way you're looking at it and then you're able to access it more. When you're asking a tricky que like the question, like a not so great kinda way, you're like, I can't find the answer.

Sue: What would love do? It's a little more ease. Useful to see maybe through the fog and say, oh, okay. That's what I could try today. See? Yeah. I think in those moments of, you know, people feeling this, like, oh, I am who I came here to be. They're never feeling this. Like, uh, like, you know, kinda like, it's like we're feeling loving, we're [00:29:00] feeling open, we're feeling joyful, whatever it is, you know, but like, we're not feeling like down in the s there's some shit that, yeah, that would be another great if you, you know, if you ask what love would do.

Sue: You're, you know, you might, um, better access it by opening up yourself. So what are ways that you can open again, shifting your physiology, right? Yes. Maybe it's taking a breath, maybe it's going for a walk. Maybe it's jumping up and down on a trampoline. Yeah. So opening up yourself, um, so that you can receive the answer.

Sue: Yeah, absolutely. 'cause sometimes there can be some resistance Definitely to asking questions like that for sure. If I knew I would do it. Alright, so it has been so sweet having you here today. Is there anything else that you'd love to share? You're like, oh wow, if I had like. One, two minutes to share with your platform, your audience.

Sue: I would love to [00:30:00] have this. I think one thing I'd like to share in the whole personal development journey, including creating your own emotions, right? Owning responsibility for your emotions. Is the best place to start is with you like learning more about yourself. And um, on my website, which is dr re.com, there is a quiz, like, take the quiz.

Sue: And the whole point is to better learn about which, you know, I call them mama personality ties, but which type you fall into because essentially. At any age, you don't have to be a midlife, but when you learn your gifts and like own them, you know, a lot of times we brush over what we're great at. Right?

Sue: And probably in that moment that you were having, Amy, you were doing something that you're naturally great at. Mm-hmm. And, and you recognize it, you're like, oh my gosh, this is something that works for me, right? Like, I'm naturally good at this thing. Right. And so [00:31:00] the quiz is my way of highlighting that.

Sue: For women like, this is what you're good at. Take the quiz. It's like 11 questions. It's super easy and fine. And then you can figure out like these are own your gifts and then the things that can trip you up. 'cause for every gift that we have, we can also in excess, it can super trip us up in ways. And so then I just share, you know, eight simple steps that you can choose from in order to kind of overcome those challenges or obstacles.

Sue: I love that. And I also love a good quiz. I am definitely a sucker for a quiz. I'm a quiz. I love a good quiz too. It's so good. I'm sure it's like so beautiful. How else can people say in your world, you said your website, anything else? It'll all be in the show notes. Anything else you wanna share here? Yeah, so I am on substack and Instagram and Facebook.

Sue: Um, and, and the website is a great place. To start, really start with a quiz, you know, and then we'll be instantly connected. Absolutely. Dr sue mccready.com. [00:32:00] Thank you so much, Amy. Thank you so much. It's been such a delight having you here. I just truly just feeling so heart open, just being in your presence.

Sue: It's such a gift. Oh, likewise. Thank you. Thanks to our beautiful listeners. You are also a gift and just bring so much magic to the world. Just you being who you are and just so great. Have a beautiful rest of your day. Thanks y'all. Truly from the bottom of my heart for being here, for listening, for choosing to prioritize your play in all the little and big ways that you do.

Sue: If you've got a sec, I'd be so, so great. But if you'd subscribe and leave a review wherever you listening. I know, I know. You know, literally all the time. But it actually really does help more people discover the show and get a dose of that sweet playful nuggets of inspiration. You can think of it as your own little, tiny, but mighty way of spreading what joy and play out in the world today.

Sue: So thanks again for tuning in, and until next time, have a groovy, playful [00:33:00] day.