Remember Julie Andrews singing, “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down…” in Mary Poppins?
Looking for #tinylittlejoys (TLJ) daily with @mc.phd over on Instagram, and TLJ seekers/new friends, this year has proven that finding even the tiniest little joy every day, especially on the hard days, helps lift the ‘hard’ just a little bit. Over time it becomes a game changer you will never give up.
When you’ve walked your husband to Heaven’s gates, had to raise your children alone, battled cancer, thought you could never possibly be happy again because your rose-colored glasses have been shattered, walked your parents to those gates, took your strong-willed sister with special needs into your home, and literally three pages more of legit life challenges just in the last 19 years, you eventually find you are deep in the abyss and must find your way back out.
I started hearing about neuroplasticity and how we can rewire our brains. After all, it only believes what we tell it or allow it to believe. The more we think misguided thoughts the deeper they get rooted in our brain as truth. But, we can challenge the lies we've believed by overrunning them and weakening their hold with alternative, positive thoughts that are actually true!
I realized I had been believing the lie I had told myself for years - that I could never be genuinely happy again because I had just gone through too much!
I stopped floundering and started actively seeking joy and happiness with 40 Days to a Joy-Filled Life: Living the 4:8 Principle, after a sleepless middle of the night hunt for the book already somewhere in my home.
The 40 Days study began lifting me to the surface by helping me overwrite the lies.
However, it was Dr. Mary Catherine McDonald’s practice of finding tiny little joys every day of 2025 - and I started a few months late - that got me to the surface of the abyss and primed for the breakthrough that came at the beach.
Like that spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down, so too tiny little joys and the hard things in life, even an abyss of deaths, traumas, heartbreaks, and more.
For instance, this cloudy sky the other day (on the titlecard), if you looked up you could see tiny pockets of blue. And, the wisps of white are reminiscent of silver linings that can only be seen because of the clouds.
Start looking for and pondering those tiny little joys (and joys of all sizes, even those in your memories) and you’ll find your way back, too!
Do it even when it’s hard. Those first few weeks were so hard for me, and sometimes it still is, but it’s so worth pushing through!!!
Making it a practice to find even one tiny little joy every day is literally life-changing!
Looking for #tinylittlejoys (TLJ) daily with @mc.phd over on Instagram, and TLJ seekers/new friends, this year has proven that finding even the tiniest little joy every day, especially on the hard days, helps lift the ‘hard’ just a little bit. Over time it becomes a game changer you will never give up.
When you’ve walked your husband to Heaven’s gates, had to raise your children alone, battled cancer, thought you could never possibly be happy again because your rose-colored glasses have been shattered, walked your parents to those gates, took your strong-willed sister with special needs into your home, and literally three pages more of legit life challenges just in the last 19 years, you eventually find you are deep in the abyss and must find your way back out.
I started hearing about neuroplasticity and how we can rewire our brains. After all, it only believes what we tell it or allow it to believe. The more we think misguided thoughts the deeper they get rooted in our brain as truth. But, we can challenge the lies we've believed by overrunning them and weakening their hold with alternative, positive thoughts that are actually true!
I realized I had been believing the lie I had told myself for years - that I could never be genuinely happy again because I had just gone through too much!
I stopped floundering and started actively seeking joy and happiness with 40 Days to a Joy-Filled Life: Living the 4:8 Principle, after a sleepless middle of the night hunt for the book already somewhere in my home.
The 40 Days study began lifting me to the surface by helping me overwrite the lies.
However, it was Dr. Mary Catherine McDonald’s practice of finding tiny little joys every day of 2025 - and I started a few months late - that got me to the surface of the abyss and primed for the breakthrough that came at the beach.
Like that spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down, so too tiny little joys and the hard things in life, even an abyss of deaths, traumas, heartbreaks, and more.
For instance, this cloudy sky the other day (on the titlecard), if you looked up you could see tiny pockets of blue. And, the wisps of white are reminiscent of silver linings that can only be seen because of the clouds.
Start looking for and pondering those tiny little joys (and joys of all sizes, even those in your memories) and you’ll find your way back, too!
Do it even when it’s hard. Those first few weeks were so hard for me, and sometimes it still is, but it’s so worth pushing through!!!
Making it a practice to find even one tiny little joy every day is literally life-changing!
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