12/01/2025
🌟 Motivational Monday: Choosing Joy on December 1st
Welcome to December — the month of twinkling lights, overflowing calendars, emotional plot twists… and the quiet invitation to choose joy anyway.
This season can feel upside-down — juggling work, motherhood, family energy, holiday expectations, and the hormonal rollercoaster that is peri/menopause. One minute you’re humming Christmas songs… the next minute you’re crying in the pantry because someone moved the ornaments. And guess what? It’s all normal.
But today — on this first Monday of December — I want to remind you of something powerful:
✨ Joy isn’t something you wait to feel.
It’s something you allow yourself to choose.
Even when your hormones are acting wild.
Even when your patience is thin.
Even when you’re exhausted, overstimulated, or stretched between caring for everyone else.
Joy lives in the quick moments:
– the first sip of coffee in the quiet
– the sparkle from your tree
– the laugh you didn’t expect
– the peace of knowing you’ve survived every December before this one
– the pride of taking care of YOU even when your body feels unpredictable
Midlife doesn’t steal your joy — it reshapes it.
It makes joy softer, deeper, earned.
It makes joy something you practice, not something you chase.
So today, let’s walk into December with grace, humor, and a whole lot of self-compassion.
Let’s honor our changing bodies.
Let’s celebrate the woman we’re becoming.
Let’s choose joy on purpose — even if it’s messy, imperfect, or squeezed in between hot flashes.
🎄 This December, joy belongs to YOU.
Not because everything is perfect, but because you’re still showing up — heart first, resilient as ever.
💬 Comment “JOY” if you’re ready to receive it this month.