In this episode, we explore a powerful question. Where is your happy hour?

Why do we place our peace and joy in a time to come? After the promotion. After the approval. After the uncertainty clears. If you struggle with anxiety about the future, overthinking, or feeling like you are just getting through the day, this episode is for you.

You will learn:
How we give our joy away to future fears
How to stay present even when life feels uncertain
A simple maybe practice to calm anxiety
How to create more peace in everyday life

You do not need to know what will happen next.
You need to be here.

If you have been worrying about work, AI, relationships, money, or the unknown, this conversation will help you come back to your inner garden and create more happy hours now.

Lastly, you can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times (including a new audiobook), A Year Without Men: A 12 Point Guide To Inspire and Empower Women and my new Audiobook, Maybe Everything Is Okay, A Parent's Guide To Less Stress and Worry. Also you can check out my new Maybe Cards: A Path to Stress-Free Living or my new digital Maybe Journal.

Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.

Many people stop watching the news in hopes of finding peace, relief, or emotional balance. But does turning away from world events actually reduce suffering, or does it quietly create new forms of stress and inner conflict?

This episode explores a familiar modern response to overwhelm: avoiding the news as a way to cope. Rather than telling listeners what they should or should not watch, the conversation looks at the emotional difference between healthy boundaries and avoidance, and how ignoring what feels disturbing can remain active beneath the surface.

Through reflection and awareness, the episode invites listeners to look more honestly at their relationship with attention and responsibility. It explores how peace does not necessarily come from disengaging, but from noticing what is being avoided and why. By bringing presence to discomfort rather than pushing it away, conscious choice can begin to replace automatic avoidance, allowing engagement with the world without becoming overwhelmed by fear or constant information.

This episode is for people who want to stay engaged with the world but feel overwhelmed by fear and uncertainty, and for those who have tried avoiding the news and found it does not bring the peace they hoped for.

This is a repeat episode, shared again because the topic remains timely and deeply important.

Lastly, you can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times (including a new audiobook), A Year Without Men: A 12 Point Guide To Inspire and Empower Women and my new Audiobook, Maybe Everything Is Okay, A Parent's Guide To Less Stress and Worry. Also you can check out my new Maybe Cards: A Path to Stress-Free Living or my new digital Maybe Journal.

Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.

When problems show up in your life, it is easy to believe that everything is going in the wrong direction. Stress builds, anxiety takes over, and suddenly it feels like life is falling apart, even when many things are actually working.

In this episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering, I talk about why having problems does not mean your life is bad or broken. We explore why problems are often unrelated, how negative thinking creates stress and exhaustion, and why focusing only on what is wrong can cause us to miss what is right. I also walk you through simple ways to separate your problems, recognize what is working in your life, and use the maybe practice to soften fear and reopen possibility.

Problems come and go. Life is always changing. Even when things do not resolve the way we expect, there are many ways to be okay.

If you are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious about where your life is headed, this episode offers perspective, grounding, and relief.

Lastly, you can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times (including a new audiobook), A Year Without Men: A 12 Point Guide To Inspire and Empower Women and my new Audiobook, Maybe Everything Is Okay, A Parent's Guide To Less Stress and Worry. Also you can check out my new Maybe Cards: A Path to Stress-Free Living or my new digital Maybe Journal.

Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.