It's okay to be sad sometimes. Our culture is terrified of sadness. It is an unwelcome guest. people will try to make you smile while you're sad. As if they're going to catch a bug if they sit with you in your sadness. All this avoiding and suppressing makes us depressed. It weighs down our system. If we don't have healthy outlets for our sadness, if we don't make spaces in our lives where our sadness is invited to exit, then our sadness becomes toxic and cancerous. There is

There is a place for happiness. For everyone. Nobody is too broken, too broke, too victimized, too privileged, too anything to find happiness. But happiness is something that is earned, not granted. It takes work. It takes healing. It takes discipline. It takes courage. It takes a rebellious spirit. It is not something anybody can give us. It is not something that can be taken from us either. It is ours to find and ours to keep. Happiness is not childlike joy. That is our bir