Did anyone else use to think that happy people were maybe just a little dumb or at least naive?

It's a little embarrassing to admit, but yeah, I definitely used to think that way.

Being a self-aware, politically aware, feminists can feel a little dark sometimes,

and I definitely used to think like people who are happy must just not really know what's going on in the world or must not be like self-aware enough to know how broken we all are because that's how I felt really about myself and about the world and you know there's nothing wrong

with being an angry feminist despite the stereotype there's a lot in the world to be

mad about but I also believe that happiness is essential for the feminist project and for our personal lives.

And I actually believe that choosing and cultivating happiness, joy, rest, and pleasure gives us more stamina for the fight, for any fight that we want to be in.

And it gives us more of a way of being in the world that will help us have the energy and the resilience and the

creativity to transform it. And I want to prove all of that to you because I like a

challenge in two different ways in something I call the happy feminist challenge.

I want a world of happy feminists who are not just fighting the patriarchy,

but are also truly living it up in their one wild and precious human life who are making

something of themselves and their lives in a way that feels exciting and not like a burden or

stressful.

And so that's what I'm going to teach and that is what we're going to do together in the

happy feminist challenge.

Every day from October 7th to October 11th, you're going to receive a short audio lesson and a small challenge action to help

you rewire your brain for more confidence, pleasure, and joy.

And then we're going to gather for live calls most of the afternoons so that you can get help with any obstacles coming up in your brain or in your life.

These Q&A and success calls will of course be available in replay so that if you can't

attend live you can catch up on them but I've had lots of people come through this

challenge without even being able to attend any calls or watch the replays and still get so much out of it just from doing these audio lessons and these small challenge actions.

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