Nobody’s happy right now. Either we’ve got a deadly disease or we’re freaked out we’re going to get a deadly disease, our income has tanked or we’re freaked out our income’s about to tank, or we’re finally facing the fact that we’re totally not going to Paris next month.
It’s a global grief sandwich. Psychology teaches us that anxiety and a lack of control over negative stimulus are the greatest predictors of depression—and we’re all facing unknowns we can’t control right now.
What better time to inquire about joy? A little over a dozen years ago, I started a feminist psychology project—an “experiment in living” inspired by Joanna Field’s 1934 book, A Life of One’s Own.
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