# True Joy: Choosing Fun When Life Feels Heavy

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Podcast: [Fun & Bliss Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070)
Published: 2026-04-22T21:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of The Fun & Bliss Show , Monick and Moneeka sit down with Linda Shively, bestselling author, award-winning speaker, mindset expert, and joy mentor, for a tender and powerful conversation about what it really means to choose joy when life has broken your heart. Linda shares her deeply personal story of loss, survival, and finding her way back to the joy that had never fully left her. Together, they explore the difference between forced happiness and true joy, the kind that can live underneath grief, change, courage, and healing. From laughter yoga and dancing to gratitude, nature walks, releasing complaint, and letting life feel lighter again, this episode is a beautiful reminder that fun and bliss are not extras. They are part of how we survive, soften, reconnect, and come alive again.

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