The addJOY Podcast

S4 E5 Savoring + Appreciation: Appreciating the Challenges, the Hard Stuff, and the Rough Patches

Episode Summary

In today's episode, our founders, Jane Roe (Mari) + Hermione Granger (Kanika), discuss what it is to savor + appreciate the difficult moments too. If you're enjoying, like, subscribe, and review. Opening Music: Ten Times Mood by Elliot Holmes Outro Music: Last Train by Elliot Holmes Interlude Music: Some Catalan Mysteries by Redeemin'

Episode Notes

• Savoring and appreciating the challenges, the hard stuff, the rough patches
  • Be grateful for the things you wouldn’t have chosen for yourself
  • Reevaluate that which you call an obstacle
  • Savor the little things in the midst of adversity
  • Look for beauty 
  • Appreciate the ones going through it with you 
  • “Bow to your opponent” 
  • Find value in the fruit of the difficult time
  • Morehouse Brother’s meme: “hey, it wasn’t the trauma that made you stronger, kinder and more empathetic…it’s how you handled it. That credit is yours.” 
  • Embrace failure 
  • Identify the purpose for your pain and then find value in that purpose
• Why is it important to savor and appreciate the difficult parts of one’s life?
  • It builds resistance
  • It improves your decision making 
  • It humbles you…in a good way
  • It brings out the you, YOU didn’t even know existed. 
  • It gets you out of old habits and patterns that are no longer serving you
  • It can shorten the healing time
  • It teaches you how, and when, to let go