Journey to Joy - Insights and Actions for a Happier Life
A book of wisdom, simple remiders and action steps to help you live a more joyful life
You Deserve a Joyful Life
If life is a journey, we may as well make it a joyful one. Google defines joy as a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. What a way to live your life—with a feeling of great pleasure and happiness! Isn’t that what everyone wants? However, joy seems to be elusive for many. Living a joyless life is far too common. In a society where stress is a way of life, how do we make room for joy?
How can we bring more joy to our lives while we minimize our levels of stress? In Journey to Joy: Insights and Actions for a Happier Life, psychotherapist Susan Goryeb Simms, LCSW, helps you to find actionable answers to these universal questions and many others. Through professional and personal anecdotes, Susan takes the reader on a journey to joy. She shares wisdom gained through more than twenty-five years of helping individuals of all ages, as well as couples. Susan has devoted her life to helping her clients find their path to a more joyful life.
This accessible book addresses topics like the importance of gratitude, forgiveness, love, and compassion as well as the significance of intention and priorities. Each chapter ends with practical “Joyful Action Steps” to help you on your journey. Susan writes with warmth and understanding and acts as a guide as you find your way to joy.
Reviews
Absolutely loved this book! It’s a quick and easy read, with plenty of good tangible suggestions for creating positivity in your life. I’ve read other “self help” type of books, but nothing like this. Recommend HIGHLY!! #gratefultohavereadthisbook1
Journey to Joy helped me during a tough career transition in my life and revealed to me that what seemed stressful and chaotic was “everything falling into place.” Susan is accurate in stating that “something great is always around the corner” so simple, yet so profoundly true.
This book has been invaluable in altering my perspective in so many areas of my life, and I am definitely a more joyful and optimistic person because of it.
Journey to Joy helped me during a tough career transition in my life and revealed to me that what seemed stressful and chaotic was “everything falling into place.”
Excerpt from Chapter on “Change”
Ultimately, the goal is to recognize the opportunities for growth, beauty, and extraordinary experiences during our struggles. When you get to a point, in the midst of a difficult time, where you can say, “I know this really stinks right now, but I am excited to see what good will come from it, because I know it’s coming,” you are in a great place to live joyfully…
…Consider how we eagerly await the springtime. Spring is such a beautiful time of year. Everything that was dormant in winter begins to come alive. No matter how hard the winter is, we know that eventually, spring will arrive We are aware of this process with the seasons so as winter wears on we find relief in the knowledge that spring is just around the corner. Life is much the same way, hard times give way to good times, but we don’t know the beauty or the gifts that are on their way to us while we are struggling. When our lives are dreary and dull, we may not have the same expectation of something good coming that we have for the springtime.
If we always knew that something wonderful was headed our way, the way we know spring is coming, we might be able to feel a greater sense of ease. It won’t necessarily make us less frustrated with our current circumstances (just like we can still be frustrated when there is a snowfall in March) but knowing that there is an end in sight can help to comfort us through the struggle.
If we choose to live our lives with the knowledge that something beautiful is on its way to us, we can live with the same anticipation that we do for spring.
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