Скачать или смотреть Episode 27: Joy as Strategy: A New Tale to Tell

Season 2 of Living in 3D Power is here! In this opening episode, Emma and I dive into joy—not as something we wait for, but as something we practice. Through laughter, reflection, and a playful Mad Lib activity from Sonya Renee Taylor’s Your Body Is Not an Apology workbook, we explore what it means to rewrite our stories and embody joy as resistance.

I share what I discovered while pulling out old journals and sitting with my unfinished pages, and we talk about why so many of us confuse joy with happiness. Together, Emma and I lean into the guiding question for this season: “What would it look like if joy was our strategy, not our reward?”

Chapters
00:59 – What my journals and unfinished pages taught me

01:52 – Why we confuse joy with happiness

04:20 – What joy looks like as a strategy

05:57 – Emma joins me for the conversation

06:45 – Mad Libs & body positivity (Your Body Is Not an Apology)

14:32 – Historical figures, dreams, and bravery

24:14 – Struggles, apologies, and growing through them

26:28 – Homework battles & puberty

28:01 – The power of facial expressions

29:32 – Spiritual habits and serving God

32:37 – Centering marginalized groups

32:59 – The “brown paper bag test” and colorism

36:38 – Rewriting affirming stories through Mad Libs

51:01 – Practicing joy as resistance

52:59 – Emma’s closing wisdom & farewell

Resources & Mentions
Sonya Renee Taylor, Your Body Is Not an Apology (Book & Workbook)

Sonya Renee Taylor, Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!)

Tracy M. Lewis-Giggetts, The Black Joy Playbook