Reclaim your joy with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, author of 23 books including the recently released The Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight. Featured on Good Morning America, the Playbook is a follow-up to her NAACP Image Award winning Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration.

“We have an ancestral mandate to hold—not just the pain and trauma of our experiences as Black people—but to hold the joy and love and peace that is also ours,” says Lewis-Giggetts.

Her hope for listeners of this podcast is that by the end of this episode you will know that:

1. There is healing power in intentionally unearthing and pursuing joy—particularly in the midst of grief and chaos. 
2. Sometimes joy requires us to be still. (Are you willing to sit with yourself and identify your unique needs?)
3. Black joy is unique and necessary. 

“Joy is a weapon, not only for resistance, but also a means for healing—a powerful tool that is all-encompassing and necessary. The Black Joy Playbook helps you mine your memories to discover what joy looks and feels like to you and then guides you to re-create it in your present-day life,” says Lewis-Giggets.

Listeners can purchase The Black Joy Playbook: 30 Days of Intentionally Reclaiming Your Delight in bookstores everywhere.

Featured Guest: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
Links: @tmlgwriter and www.traceymlewis.com