The holidays often bring joy — and stress. In this episode, I share three practical principles for staying present, letting go of expectations, and remembering what truly matters when spending time with family. Then, I also share a short practice to help you embody peace during the holiday season.

Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or mentally “always on”?

At The Joy Within, we call this The Slow Burn: the constant, low-level tension that creeps in when the mind is overloaded, and slowly chips away at your energy, clarity, and joy.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- What The Slow Burn really is (and why it hides in plain sight)

- The subtle signs you’ve been carrying too much

- How your inner story—not your circumstances—is driving the stress

- How to begin shifting out of stress using The Path of Alignment

- 5 reflection questions to help you identify your #1 stress source

By the end, you’ll understand exactly how to recognize this pattern in your own life — and what to do next to feel calmer, clearer, and more in control.

👉 Take the free 7-Day Reset tointerrupt stress and reset your system in just a few minutes a day: https://thejoywithin.org/reset

👉 Take the Self-Assessment to identify how Unconscious Unhappiness is showing up in your life: https://thejoywithin.org/unconscious-unhappiness

👉 Learn more about The Path of Alignment: https://thejoywithin.org/path-of-alignment

In today's episode, Kyle walks through the Path of Alignment, a framework for transforming reactive stress into grounded clarity. You’ll learn how to reset your mindset, detach from negative patterns, shift your self-talk, and update limiting beliefs so you can act from a place of authentic joy.

Next Steps:

1. Take a 2-minute self-assessment: https://thejoywithin.org/start-here
2. Get started with a free 7-Day Reset: https://thejoywithin.org/join

If you ever feel like something’s off — but you can't quite put your finger on it, this is for you. In today’s episode we dive into the phenomenon of Unconscious Unhappiness.

It's something we all go through at times: when everything is fine — but you still feel a subtle emptiness, a softness of lack of fulfillment.

I explain

• What this quiet dissatisfaction really means,
• The 7 most common ways it shows up in our lives, and
• How you can move past it by coming back into alignment.

You’ll leave with simple, yet powerful perspective-shifts that make room for everyday joy — not as a distant goal, but as part of your normal inner rhythm.

Tune in, let yourself feel what’s really beneath the surface, and discover how to turn unconscious unhappiness into conscious a deliberate joy.

When we align our actions with our deeper purpose, even hard work feels effortless. Building on last week’s episode about setting clear intentions, today I share a 3-part framework for taking action that flows — not forces.

Discover how to act from purpose instead of pressure, focus on the unfolding rather than the outcome, and express your authentic self through every step you take.

It’s a simple shift that turns striving into flow — and makes progress feel joyful, natural, and deeply fulfilling.

Many of our goals sound good but feel wrong. In this episode, we look at how to spot when your ambitions are being driven by fear or ego — and how to re-center on the feeling you actually want.

You’ll discover a framework to transform pressure-filled striving into purpose-driven flow, where action becomes effortless.

If you're a driven, goal-oriented person, it's easy to forget there is more power in being present in each action than focusing on what hasn’t happened yet, or what still needs to be done.

I am as guilty of this as anyone. It is easy to set a goal and then think about everything that must happen to get there. We like to think linearly, logically, and the mind likes to think it knows how to achieve the things we say we want.

The problem is: when we do that we focus on lack, on not yet being, doing, or having the thing we want. So if you’re stuck in that lack-focused cycle, which feels like: “I have so much work to do”, “I just can’t get past this.” —> Today’s episode is for you.

As we step into September, it's the perfect time of year to reset and reinvigorate the goals you've set. Especially if you've been feeling behind, or less excited about your goals for the year, it's important to reignite the excitement you have for them.

Today's podcast walks you through a mental framework and clear practice to help you reignite your dreams, by building inner momentum towards them.