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January 24, 2021 7 mins

Do you secretly find it hard to feel and/or express joy in your personal life? Are you in a relationship with a joy killer?
If you do, then you're not alone!

In the past months, we have discovered that Assael has trouble expressing joy (can you say, a pessimist?), while for Galit joy is a natural and accessible resource (optimist, or as we call her a unicorn).

This sent Assael to family therapy with his parents to understand the source of this difficulty - and he came back with some shocking discoveries.
Since then we have been talking about it with our clients, only to discover that many people find it hard to recognize and express joy for a myriad of reasons.

In this talk, we share what we discovered about joy from our marriage and the clinic. We share both the pessimist and optimist tips on how to recognize and express joy in your life.

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