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Joy Rising is not a memoir about a perfect life. It’s a collection of stories from a real one. With humor, candor, and hard-won grace, Carolyn Pistone explores joy not as a personality trait or a spiritual bypass, but as a practice–one that can co-exist with trauma, grief, injustice, aging...

So often, we find ourselves at a crossroads or crisis in life, career, family, or business. This can obscure our view of the joy that is always present in us and in the world. We can often find ourselves saying and thinking, “If I could just___then I’ll be happy,” or “Once this happens in my career___I will be successful,” or even “If I could just get a big windfall, I can start living the life I want, have the impact I want, or bring my business to the next level.”