Joy on Hold: Are you afraid to be happy?

Juvie de Koning
Nov 3 · 6 min read

​”He who laughs the loudest, cries the hardest.” Someone said this in high school during lunch as we watched a girl laughing so boisterously that everyone in the cafeteria turned to look. “She’s so going to cry tomorrow,” she declared matter-of-factly. How would she know? I thought to myself. She was only 15, after all, just like me. And yet, somehow, what she said haunted me in the many years to come.

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Juvie de Koning

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Juvie de Koning helps Seekers connect with their true self, unique gifts and higher purpose by listening to their inner guidance. subtleawakening.com

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