Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay

Author:   Cyndie Spiegel
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:  

9780349433318


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 February 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay


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Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspiring essays and thoughtful prompts that will keep you afloat in difficult times and sustain you in the everyday. Microjoys are a practice of uncovering joy and finding hope at any moment. They are accessible to everyone, despite all else. When we hone the ability to look for them, they are always available. Microjoys are the hidden wisdom, deep memories, subtle treasure, and ordinary delights that surround us: a polka-dot dress on a thrift store shelf. A dear friend's kindness at just the right time. The neighborhood spice shop. A beloved family tradition. The simple quietude of being in love. A cherished recipe. Cyndie Spiegel first began taking note of microjoys during the most difficult year of her life - when she experienced back-to-back unprecedented and devastating losses - and she found that these fleeting moments of hope helped her move through each day with a semblance of comfort and a lot more joy. Through beautifully written chapters and prompts, Cyndie shares the microjoys that have kept her going through tough times and shows us how we can learn to see the microjoys in our own lives. Microjoys don't change the truth of loss or make grief any more convenient, but they allow us to temporarily touch joy, keeping us buoyed and moving forward, one moment at a time.

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Author:   Cyndie Spiegel
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Piatkus Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 18.20cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780349433318


ISBN 10:   0349433313
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 February 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Full of heart and truth. This book is an essential companion to remind you that you are not alone -- Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of FURIOUSLY HAPPY Reading Microjoys is such a big joy. Moving, inspiring, and encouraging, this is the book you read when you are grieving or celebrating or reflecting or curious or wanting more or coming back to yourself. Read it with a full or a heavy heart, a busy schedule or a lazy day, a clear or uncertain future. There is never a bad time to read these words. You'll get exactly what you need. What a gift -- Courtney Carver, author of SOULFUL SIMPLICITY and founder of Be More With Less MICROJOYS is a deep inhalation - a nudge to slowly open your eyes and take in all the gifts your life shows you daily, if only you'd look. What a wonderful, soulful reaffirmation that there is still beauty in this world, despite it all! -- Karen Walrond, author of THE LIGHTMAKER'S MANIFESTO and THE BEAUTY OF DIFFERENT Microjoys! I have a name for them now, thanks to Cyndie Spiegel, and a renewed commitment to seek them out - those delights, mercies, and inexplicably magic moments, big or small, that are always right there, if we only open up and pay attention. Spiegel writes that freudenfreude, the opposite of schadenfreude, is the joy we feel for others' joy. I'm feeling freudenfreude in advance, thinking about the readers who will discover this book, knowing the joy they'll find in these pages. I'm so happy for them. For us -- Maggie Smith, author of KEEP MOVING and YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL


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Cyndie Spiegel is a born storyteller-turned-writer; she's an aspirational voice and an igniter of powerful conversation around self-acceptance, integrity, and joy. She is a former fashion executive, adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology, and holds a masters of professional studies. She is also a TEDx speaker and a certified yoga and meditation teacher. Her honest storytelling, vulnerable self-inquiry, and penchant for swear words have made her a sought-after speaker for conferences, brands, and organizations, and she has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Glamour, Teen Vogue, and The Huffington Post. She is the founder of Dear Grown Ass Women, an inclusive and highly relatable social community for women 35+, and she is also the author OF A YEAR OF POSITIVE THINKING.

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