We’ve been sold the idea that the more we suffer, the more we grow, that fun is what happens once we’ve earned it. This week, I’m breaking that belief, because there is no prize for suffering.

I get into why joy is the highest spiritual vibration in Kabbalah, and what actually happens in your brain when you let yourself have fun. We talk about the guilt so many of us carry, especially as women, the box people try to put you in when you’re “the spiritual one,” and why enjoying the physical world isn’t a detour from the path. It is the path.


Plus the small, everyday practices I’m using to bring more fun in: romanticising the ordinary, dressing up for no reason, meeting new people, breaking the routine, and moving my body for the joy of it. Because presence isn’t found in the big milestone you’re waiting for. It’s here, in the moment you’re in right now.


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