If you have been waiting for joy to find you rather than going out to find it, this episode is going to change how you approach every day you wake up feeling heavy. In "Joy Is a Practice," Suki delivers a simple but powerful truth: joy is not something that happens to you. It is something you choose, create, and protect — especially on the days when nothing goes the way you planned.

Joy is not the absence of hard things. It is something you can hold alongside them. This episode is an invitation to ask yourself when you last did something simply because it made you happy — not because it was productive, not because someone needed it, just because you wanted to.

Scheduling joy is not a luxury. It is self-care at its most practical. You deserve to feel good right now, in this exact season, exactly as things are. The permiss ...