Always Connected

Why You Don't Have to Try to Feel Joy

Always Connected

Show Notes

Joy is often treated as a goal or a reward. In this episode of ALWAYS CONNECTED, we explore a different view: joy as something already present, even in ordinary moments. Through live interaction and spirit-guided inquiry, we look at how effort, vigilance, and self-monitoring can obscure joy—and what helps it naturally surface again.

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Suzanne Giesemann is a former Navy Commander-turned spiritual teacher, author, documentarian and evidential medium. Through The Awakened Way, she shares practical tools for living with peace, balance, and joyful connection to Spirit. In her vast YouTube library you will find inspired teachings, messages from her guides, Sanaya, meditations, and evidence that love and life never end.

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