Can you be heartbroken and happy at the same time? Can you experience grief, sadness, or loss and still allow yourself to laugh, feel joy, and keep living?

In this episode of SolTalk with Sunny Dawn Johnston, Sunny explores the complicated relationship between grief, happiness, healing, and choosing joy when life hurts.

After recently celebrating the life of her dear friend Robin, Sunny shares what she is discovering firsthand about grief. The pain does not simply disappear, but neither does your ability to experience happiness.

In fact, one of the most important messages in this conversation is that grief and joy do not have to be opposites.

You can miss someone deeply and still laugh.

You can hurt and still experience a beautiful moment.

You can grieve and still choose to live.

As Sunny explains, laughter and happiness after loss do not erase your love or mean that you've “moved on.” We are capable of holding grief and happiness at the same time.

Sunny also shares a hilarious real-life story about attending an outdoor concert that turned into an unforgettable Arizona storm filled with wind, rain, hail, mud and chaos. While some people became angry and frustrated, Sunny found herself laughing and even dancing in the rain.

It became a powerful reminder:

We cannot always choose what happens in life, but we can choose how we participate in it.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How grief and happiness can coexist
• Why feeling joy does not dishonor someone you've lost
• How to find happiness even when circumstances are difficult
• Why waiting for everything to be “okay” can keep us from living
• How changing your perspective can change your experience
• Where happiness may already be available in your life today
• How our loved ones in spirit can remain connected with us

Sunny encourages us to stop waiting for the perfect circumstances before allowing ourselves to feel good and instead begin noticing the small places where happiness is already available.

If you are navigating grief from the death of a loved one, a relationship, or another major life transition, Sunny invites you to join her FREE grief webinar on August 19.

👉 schooloflight.biz/webinar

Sunny will explore the real experience of grief, including love, pain, anger, laughter, guilt, healing, and learning how to keep living while honoring someone who is no longer physically here.