There’s a kind of joy that isn’t loud.
It doesn’t announce itself with champagne 🥂 toasts or big career moves. 💼
It doesn’t sparkle on social media. 🤳
It doesn’t hustle. 🏃♀️➡️🏃🏻➡️
It rests. 😌🌿
And for that reason, most people miss it.
Lately, I’ve been living inside a strange kind of contradiction:
My days are full of meetings, strategy, building, guiding.
But in the quiet hours in the spaces between I’ve felt something even more powerful than momentum.
I’ve felt joy. Real, sustainable, sovereign joy.
Not the dopamine spike of a like.
Not the relief of checking off a to-do list.
But the kind of joy that hums 🦜from somewhere deep and ancient 🍃
A quiet confidence. A knowing.
And I’ve realized something important:
Stillness is not laziness. It’s a form of resistance.
The world wants us tired. Joy wants you Awake.
Stillness was not a breakdown. It was a Breakthrough.
☁️ The Cultural Lie: Rest = Worthlessness
We are conditioned from school desks👩🏫 to corporate boardrooms 👩💻to measure our worth by output.
Produce more 👉🏼Perform faster👉🏼Be seen👉🏼Stay visible.
And if you stop moving? You’re behind. You’re lazy. You’re falling off the map.
But what if the map 🗺️ itself is broken?
What if rest 😌 isn’t the reward for surviving burnout, but the baseline from which abundance and creativity are born?
What if joy doesn’t arrive after achievement, but instead guides us toward it?
🧬 Joy as a Compass, Not a Distraction
Here’s what I know now:
Peace is not a fluke. It’s feedback. Joy is not indulgent. It’s intelligent. Stillness is not weak. It’s sovereign.
When I sit in stillness when I allow myself to not chase, not perform, not produce I don’t disappear.
I become.
This is the quiet space where 💡 ideas surface uninvited,
🌿 Where answers land without force,
🌿 Where we no longer have to run after the world…
🌿 Because we are the world. 🌍
🔥 Rest as Rebellion
The most radical thing you can do right now?
Be well.
Be so well that you can hear your soul over the static.
Be so at peace that joy becomes your new normal.
Be so in rhythm with yourself that external validation loses its power.
Because we live in a system that profits from our disconnection from our chronic striving, our self-doubt, our exhaustion.
So when you reclaim your stillness,
when you choose joy without reason,
when you rest 🍃😊 without guilt
you are disrupting 👉🏼 an entire system.
🌿 My Personal Reminder
When the world 🌍 feels like it’s spinning too fast,
when I feel the urge to “do more,” to “prove something,”
I pause.
I put my hand on my heart and say:
“Stillness is sacred.
I don’t need to rush to remember who I am.”
And suddenly, I’m home 🏡 again. 🌻
If you’ve been feeling that quiet joy lately 🌺 the kind that can’t be posted, the kind that lives beneath words 🌝 trust it.
It’s not weakness.
It’s wisdom.🪬🧿🪷
It means you’ve stopped performing for the world…
and started listening to your soul.
And that?
That is sacred
That is freedom
That is leadership.
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