The Stories We Tell About Happiness
Explore the beliefs and messages that have shaped your ideas about happiness and joy. This free reflection guide will help you uncover what you learned from family, culture, media, and life experiences, and begin noticing which beliefs you still carry today.
Have you ever stopped to wonder where your ideas about happiness came from?
Long before we consciously decided what happiness meant to us, we were absorbing messages about it from our families, culture, stories, media, and the world around us.
We learned what happiness was supposed to look like, what we needed to do to deserve it, and sometimes even how we were expected to express it.
But are those beliefs actually ours?
This free reflection guide invites you to explore the stories and messages that have shaped your relationship with happiness and joy.
Through simple explanations, reflective exercises, and journaling prompts, you'll begin to uncover the beliefs you may have inherited and consider which ones still feel true for you today.
Inside this free guide, you'll explore:
• The cultural messages we've absorbed about happiness
• How achievement and hard work became connected with happiness
• What family, stories, and media may have taught you about being happy
• The messages about happiness you continue to encounter today
• Reflection prompts to uncover the beliefs you may still carry
Sometimes finding our own joy begins by recognizing the stories we've been telling ourselves about where happiness is supposed to come from.
Download your free guide here and begin exploring which stories still belong to you.
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