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What Is Joy, and How Can You Experience More of It?

What is joy?It’s such a compelling concept, but no dictionary definition I’ve ever read seems to capture it.If we can understand what it is, then we’ll know how to experience more of it.First, what it isn’t.Though joy can make you happy, it isn’t plain happiness. Happiness is what you feel…
September 13, 2023
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Are You a Heroine?

“I have a confession to make.” After three days together and almost non-stop catching up, my friend was getting vulnerable. “I’ve never read Middlemarch.” I sputtered for how to respond. Not because she had committed some crime. Because I was groping for an explanation as to why I am so…
July 14, 2023
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The Heroines Retreat

My coaching group, Be the Heroine, just had its first in-person retreat. We met for a long weekend in beautiful Ojai, California. It had been a cold, wet winter there, but spring sprang on the day of our arrival. The rain stopped, the sun warmed, and the hillsides from Los Angeles…
April 11, 2023
Stop Suffering, Start Living

Dear Worth It

Dear Allison,I’m considering Be the Heroine, but I have a few concerns. What if I can’t make all the meetings? My schedule is already full, and I’m not sure I can add another thing to it. Also, I’ve invested in other programs before and didn’t get the results I wanted.…
December 1, 2022
Stop Suffering, Start Living

The Joy Experiment

Above: Look at the joy on those faces! Though not all the Heroines were present, this photo is special because it’s the first snap of the first time we met in person. “What if joy were my only metric for success?” The comedian Sarah Jones said this in conversation with…
September 9, 2022
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