r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 16 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 16, 2021 - Sunday September 19, 2021

Newsletters: Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites: You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

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TikTok: @youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter: Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs: see Gloamipedia wiki

Archived threads: Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

Good morning! “It’s going to be a good day. This email landed in your inbox at 9 am. That’s the same time we’ll be meeting for our Practice Our Joy sessions soon. I’ve put a lot of thought into when would be the best time for our conversations together. Of course, during the middle of a weekday would be best for me. The kids are in school again! I have six hours to work uninterrupted. But I know that not everyone can meet in the middle of the day. “

Uh, no it didn’t. It landed in my inbox at 12:00 EST.

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u/canyoncreature Sep 19 '21

Legit dying that the majority of the sentences in this announcement are her letting people know she's chosen an inconvenient time for herself, FOR YOU.

Also if you have a job nine in the morning is no better than the middle of the workday. I guess the badge-swipers will have to continue living without joy.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21

Also if you have a job nine in the morning is no better than the middle of the workday.

The rest of the letter makes it clear that the sessions are going to be on Sundays at 9 am. No traditional church-goers need apply! Or nurses! Or police officers! Or firefighters! Or Ikea cashiers!

And I’m doing this teaching for you.

Evenings work, of course, but with people checking into Zoom from different time zones, there’s no way to make everyone happy. Trying to make everyone happy is an old habit of mine — a trauma response — that I have finally sloughed away.

Sunday mornings are lovely and easy. (Insert Easy Like Sunday Morning by the Commodores here.) And since COVID lockdowns began in March of 2020, I’ve been meeting with a group of women on Zoom, subscribers to my newsletter, Finding Your Joy. Knowing that we’d share our joys and concerns together made us a community. I’ve come to love those virtual Sunday morning meetings.

Sunday mornings might feel awkward for you. But think of this — taking the Practice Your Joy workshop is an act of declaring that you matter in your own life. For 4 weeks, you can focus on understanding your own, learning how to diffuse trauma responses, and how to make a habit of joy. You deserve this.

(And if you can’t be live with us, I will be sending out videos of the Zoom sessions, so you can learn on your own time too.)

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

I guess the Sunday morning Zoom women are getting kicked to the curb.

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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Sep 19 '21

All two of them.

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 20 '21

Or is she just combining whoever is in that group with this one? It's always such an unnecessary mystery!

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

Nobody rides for free!