Episode 13: Joy is the Matriarch (Joy 1 of 4)
In season two, episode one of The Unvarnished Edit, Angie and Jaelene return to introduce a “joy arc,” exploring what joy means to them and why it can be hard to access after a history of adversity. They open with light banter about competitive Scrabble, loving dictionaries, and finding joy in learning, then shift to how joy and pre-excitement can feel unsafe because happiness can be taken away or dismissed. Angie shares realizing this during a Sesame Street special, while both discuss living on alert, defaulting to negative feelings as “safer,” and needing intentional practice to experience…
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