Joie de Vivre

Real zest for life through self-love is a bit of a personal quest. I’ve always been good to create zest for life *somewhere* in my life myself, but sometimes it would be as bad as like 10% intense fun and 90% drudgery and despair. The joyful parts covered up for the shitty bits and I was really far from feeling fundamentally okay, largely independent of how my life circumstantially went on any given day.
Does that sound any familiar? Are you prone to have a few ew-parts in your life and kind of gloss them over with other, more fun bits? Alternatively, you’re pretty good at managing all the bits and pieces, but it’s a lot of work to cover that underlying “something’s not quite okay” – an unrest of sorts that never ceases for long.
Either way, la joie de vivre kind of notoriously escapes you. That’s because it’s actually to be found within you and starts with self-love. The real zest for life through self-love isn’t easily to be created, with a world around you to teach it’s about external fixes. In this category, I want to hand over ideas on how to go on that quest anyway, with a different set of tools and possibility.