The Power of Unapologetic Joy: Why Your Happiness is a Revolution
About This Episode
In this Sunny Side Up episode, Jessie May explores joy as a living, embodied force - not something earned, filtered, or withheld. What if your happiness isn’t indulgent or naive, but a form of integrity?
Through storytelling, science, and soulful reflection, this conversation reframes joy as a compass - one that shifts your nervous system, your relationships, and the spaces you move through.
This episode is an invitation to reclaim happiness without apology and to trust joy as a form of presence, resilience, and truth.
What You’ll Learn
Why joy is medicine for your nervous system and emotional health
How conditioning, guilt, and empathy can quietly dim happiness
The neuroscience behind joy, regulation, and resilience
Joy as an act of resistance rather than avoidance
Reflection prompts to embody happiness without shrinking
Why Listen Now
You’ve been holding back joy out of guilt or responsibility
You want emotional freedom without bypassing reality
You’re craving happiness that feels grounded and real
You sense joy asking to be reclaimed in this season
You’re ready to let joy lead without explanation or apology
If this episode lights something in you, come listen in, and share it with someone who needs permission to feel alive again. Joy shared is joy multiplied.
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Resource(s):
Greater Good Science Center (UC Berkeley): Building Resilience
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Positive Emotions and Your Health
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