{"product_id":"joyful-anyway-by-kate-bowler","title":"Joyful, Anyway by Kate Bowler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou can't always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe live in a culture convinced that chasing happiness will optimize our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our lives. But in the meantime, bad news usually stays bad: Illness, chronic pain, grief, and disappointment don’t obey our timelines or vision boards. We are left wondering why, if we’re doing everything right, life still feels so hard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHonest and bracingly tender, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e proves that experiencing joy does not depend on everything getting better. Drawing on a decade of living with serious illness and a lifetime studying North America’s obsession with progress, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler shows why people so busy chasing happiness miss out on actual joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy isn’t something you can optimize or manufacture; it finds us at the edge of expectation, where life interrupts our scripts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyful, Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gives us language for the ache we all carry and practices for putting ourselves “in the way of joy”: loosening control, introducing novelty, choosing charity, and staying open to the surprising, Technicolor moments that pull us back into life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy reminds us that, no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask Is this it?, joy will answer: There is more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42654292017239,"sku":"9780385704199","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/6488\/2007\/files\/TBMBookmanagerImage_10_d944a1c5-859f-4152-b9ca-52e75d48c49b.jpg?v=1774983186","url":"https:\/\/nottawacottagebookstore.ca\/products\/joyful-anyway-by-kate-bowler","provider":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}