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Aug 2024
30m 46s

Joy Is the Only Strategy

MARTHA BECK
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Can you remember times when you’ve experienced pure joy? Martha recalls some key moments that led her to make joy her strategy for living, and she’s talking about it in this episode of The Gathering Room. The dictionary defines a strategy as “a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim." We all want to experience joy, and yet we h ... Show More
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