Stephanie Harrison

This is the heart of all of the work I do.

So you just nailed it with this description.

Honestly, it's because we live in a culture and a society that tells us to do certain things to become happy.

And as you said so beautifully, even though it doesn't align with our own experience and our inner knowing, we end up being very much influenced by that.

And it ends up driving our actions to deprioritize the things that do make us happy.

And

unfortunately pursue things that don't end up contributing to lasting well-being in the long term.

It's really what you described, this cultural understanding of happiness that teaches us that if you want to be happy, you need to perfect yourself.

You need to achieve more and more and consume as much as you can.

And you need to dominate other people and essentially cut yourself off from them and be completely independent.

And these messages about happiness, they seep into our lives in so many different ways, whether it's through our workplaces or through the institutions that we see or what we see in the media.

And so it becomes very hard to untangle them if we don't have that awareness about what old happy is.

This is the heart of all of the work I do.

So you just nailed it with this description.

Honestly, it's because we live in a culture and a society that tells us to do certain things to become happy.

And as you said so beautifully, even though it doesn't align with our own experience and our inner knowing, we end up being very much influenced by that.

The first old happy lie is that you have to be perfect because you're not good enough.

And so this pressure that we all feel, that voice in your head that tells you, I'm not worthy, there's something wrong with me, I'm broken, that we all have, it really comes from this old happy culture.

And it ends up driving our actions to deprioritize the things that do make us happy.

And