I love our family dinners! This is the time for us to connect about our day, what is happening personally and to hold family meetings. Our favorite place to hold these meetings is at the dinner table.

This week we discuss our puppy, Pearl, who is getting into items that are left out, specifically food. We also discuss with the kids their future in their orchestra for the remainder of the school year, and finally how to make some changes in cleaning up things that do not get cleaned up regularly by ALL of us!

Why are we discussing all of this? So Mom does NOT have to keep nagging everyone about it. Yep, I do because clean up does not get done and violin practice is NOT happening consistently! We all know that nagging is a huge JOY CRUSHER! Who wants to be nagged? And who wants to nag?

You will hear how we navigate these topics with the kids and as a family, keeping the emotion low and the fun up all the while coming to some conclusions!

As always, we would love to hear what you took away from this episdoe, so reach out to me. (See below for ways to do that)

Finally, send this episode to ONE person you know would like this episode. We would be incredibly grateful!!

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Lauren's Book, My Dad Died From ALS and How I Found Joy 30 Years Later
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2J15M3Z

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SPECIAL GUESTS:
My niece Toni and her boyfriend Austin.

Being in their early 20's they will share how they view:

• Joy
• What brings them JOY
• What takes them out of JOY
• How they get back to JOY

Hear what they have to say about social media, how it affects joy, and how "being in the moment" is essential to joy.

This episode is very valuable and enlightening not only for our children and young adults, but for all of us. I learned so much and we hope you do too!

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Lauren's Book, My Dad Died From ALS and How I Found Joy 30 Years Later
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2J15M3Z

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This episode is a conversation with Carla White. Carla is a Spark Igniter!

She’s on a mission to empower high performing

women to heal emotional overwhelm &

exhaustion so they can finally give themselves

enthusiastic, unapologetic Permission to Play… to reignite the Spark within, find joy, and boost their energy using the power of FUN. She is a 4x international

best-selling author, including her book Reignite

Your Spark & contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul,

The Spirit of Canada. Carla is the creator of The Connection Club and Reignite Your Spark Retreat, held annually in the Canadian Rockies. She hosts the Permission to Play Show

Another enlightening episode on how one can reignite their spark through play and find JOY once again. Carla´s work in the world is based on the proverb, ¨The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with JOY.¨

She talks about how the natural state of human beings is JOY however, we have all experienced drama, trauma, and shitastrophies that if left unhealed will keep us from actually enJOYing our life adventures.

Carla shares her personal experience and how she got herself to where she is today and how she supports professional women in finding their JOY again through play.

I love her take on PLAY and how important it is for adults to still PLAY. She also shares with us her ABC´s.

A-Allow what is coming up and let it be, don´t judge it.
B-Breathe- This is our energy life source
C-Connect with soul, community, higher power, or support system.

She also chats with us about about the three components of PLAY:
1. Connection
2. Playfulness
3. Flow

Enjoy this episode and please let me know what you took away from this episode that can change what you are doing right now!

Please TEXT one person who you KNOW who will like this episode. Tell them that they NEED to listen to this podcast and to get back to you and tell you what they took away from it.

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Website: https://www.carla-white.ca/
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Lauren's Book, My Dad Died From ALS and How I Found Joy 30 Years Later
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2J15M3Z

CONNECT WITH LAUREN AND HER FAMILY

Email: lauren@dailyjoy.us
IG: https://www.instagram.com/laurensdailyjoy/
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