How to Get Your Joy Back

Have you ever felt like joy was robbed from you? Taken without your permission?

I’ve been thinking deeply about this—especially in a world where your presence, your identity, your values can be questioned with one post, one email, one screenshot.
So many of us are out here trying to do good. Using our platforms to learn, connect, and grow. And yet, all it takes is one moment to shift the narrative, to make you question your purpose, your voice, your joy.

But here’s what I’m learning:
Joy is the one thing we do have agency over.
Even when it’s tested. Even when it’s shaken.
Even when it feels like it’s barely there.
That’s when your joy plan has to show up. Not for the algorithm. Not for your critics.
For you.

And that plan can’t be surface-level. It has to be soul-deep.
It has to remind you that joy is your birthright.
That it’s not about how others see you—it’s about how you see yourself.
It’s about remembering who you are, what you’re made of, and who has you.

Joy isn’t just smiles and selfies.
Joy can be healing.
Joy can be resistance.
Joy can be the anchor that holds you steady in the storm.

This is your reminder: You can get your joy back.

And when you do, let it hold you—loud, soft, quiet, proud.

Let it remind you that you are still here. And you still matter.