Takeaways

• Joy isn't the absence of hardship. It shows up in the middle of hard seasons, not after them, because God is present through all of it.
• Comparison always measures your life against someone else's highlight reel, and it steals the joy that's already sitting right in front of you.
• Your worth was never tied to your productivity. You're valuable simply because you belong to God, no other measurement required.

Summary of the episode

In this solo episode, Courtney sits down with the version of herself who thought she had to have life all figured out, and shares the five things about joy she wishes someone had told her sooner. Drawing from her own seasons of loss, grief, and unanswered prayers, she unpacks why joy was never meant to wait for easier circumstances, and why comparison, the pressure to  ...