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The Parenting WisdomFinding Joy in the Hard: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Meaning- A Conversation with Suzanne Andora BarronIn today’s powerful and heartfelt episode, I sit down with Suzanne Andora Barron—yoga instructor, breathwork and meditation guide, and host of the Finding Joy in the Hard podcast. Sixteen years ago, Suzanne experienced every parent’s worst nightmare: the loss of her nine-year-old son. Left to navigate the grief while raising her younger child, she began a journey of deep healing, spiritual growth, and redefining joy through suffering.Suzanne shares her story with raw honesty and grace, offering profound insight into the complexities of grief, the practice of presence, and how we can still find joy—ev...2025-05-1457 min

Midlife Purpose Project: Conversations for midlife women on mindfulness, mental health and spiritualityE71 Grief, Healing, and Yoga: Suzanne Andora Barron on Overcoming Loss, Finding Joy, and Empowering Kids Through CreativitySuzanne Andora Barron wear many hats. She’s president and founder of a foundation, The Christopher Barron Live Life Foundation, she started in honor of her little boy, Christopher, who passed at the age of 9 from leukemia. The Foundation offers comic creation workshops to underserved kids. To date, her foundation has helped more 1200 children discover the power of their imagination. Suzanne’s also a yoga instructor, a meditation coach and a certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner. She’s been teaching yoga, meditation and breathwork for 12 years and Jin Shin Jyutsu, an ancient Japanese healing modality, for eight. These practices helped...2024-09-251h 24

Rekindle Your Light: Purpose, Creativity, and Transformation!EP 56: Healing Through Jin Shin Jyutsu and Finding Joy in the Hard with Suzanne Andora BarronSuzanne Andora Barron Suzanne Andora Barron’s oldest child’s leukemia diagnosis changed the trajectory of her life. She cultivated practices to stay grounded, not just for herself, but for her family too. Through these practices, she discovered an unexpected gift, the ability to find fun in each day, no matter the circumstances. Her son’s passing at the age of nine, however, nearly crippled her. Prayer, yoga and an ancient Japanese healing practice helped her find her way back. As a yoga instructor, a certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner and a mindset coach, she now guides others to uncove...2024-08-1451 min

Energy of the Untamed HeartFinding Joy in the Hard - a Conversation with Suzanne Andora BarronSuzanne Andora Barron is a writer, Jin Shin Jyutsu and Yoga Practitioner, Meditation Coach, Podcaster Losing a child is among the most unthinkable, difficult and painful experiences for any parent. Suzanne lost her son from leukemia at age 9. In her own words, “I didn’t know how to breathe let alone live. Sunlight physically hurt. I was in deep grief for three years. I was lost and uncertain how to live. I wanted to feel happy again—and I would get glimpses of it through our younger son, but I couldn’t sustain it.” Slowly, thr...2024-07-2535 min

Living Life IN AweFinding Joy in the hard with Suzanne Andora BarronThis episode with Suzanne Andora Barron is a powerful one! We talk about life's challenges, how to go through them with grace, how to find joy in the hard times. Suzanne went through several challenging years when her 3 year old son Christopher had leukemia. Suzanne is the podcast host of Finding joy in the hard. She is a writer, she is currently finishing up her memoire. She teaches yoga and meditation. She is well versed in Jin Shin Jtusu. In this conversation with Suzanne we go deep on life's...2024-07-081h 26

Finding Joy in the Hard#91 Guided Jin Shin Jyutsu Meditation to Recongize What's Going RightHere's a meditation to take you to a higher vibration to help you recognize what's going right in your life.There's always something right, but we tend to look at what's wrong. Think about how much happier we would be if we focused on the positive. For the healing element of this episode, I suggest you hold one of your middle fingers to boost your energy, ease feelings of anger and ease low back discomfort. If you'd like to join my Monday meditation live, sign up for my Sunday newsletter, where I offer we...2024-07-0717 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#090 Do you spend more time criticizing your body or complimenting it?Are you critical of your body or are you supportive and complimentary to your body? We don't just have a body. We are our body.Let that sink in for a moment. You are your body. Do you listen to your body when you're tired? Do you get up and go to sleep? When you have to go to the bathroom, do you get up and go? Or do you wait because you don't want to excuse yourself from something or someone? Is there a part of your body that...2024-07-0204 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#089 Can't Figure Out Why Your Anxious?Do you ever find that sometimes you feel anxious or fearful and you can't figure out the reason? Sometimes there is no reason. A lot of times there is no reason. Often, it has to do with the feelings we've shoved down consciously or unconsciously getting triggered and seeking an escape. So what do we do? In this episode, I share three ways to allow the emotion whether it be anxiety, fear, anger or another feeling to pass through you more gently and easily. Questions, please DM me at https://www.instagram.com/suza...2024-06-2505 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#088 How Have Suppressed Emotions Affected Your Life?We all know that we push down emotions, both consciously and unconsciously. But have we stopped to question how that shoving down is holding us back in life? Dr. David Hawkins in his book, Letting Go, shares that we think external circumstances cause us to be angry, sad, fearful, fill in the blank, but stress results from accumulated pressure from within, from guess what - those repressed and suppressed emotions. He says external events or circumstances only trigger what we've been holding down consciously and unconsciously. When we feel angry about something or someone, it has to...2024-06-1812 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#087 Jin Shin Jyutsu Meditation to Ease & Shift WorryHere's a meditation I taught on easing worry and connecting to the abundance within you. The Jin Shin Jyutsu that I teach is the long version to calm worry. You'll hold three fingers starting with thumb, followed by your middle finger and lastly your little finger. It doesn't matter which hand you hold, but continue with the hand you started with. If you're uncertain how long to hold, you can hold each finger for two minutes or longer. As you practice, you might notice your energy shifting. What does that feel like? Your stomach might gu...2024-06-1422 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#086 "Kindness, Your Super Strength," with Irene SoloLearn how to find the upside of any situation in today's episode: "Kindness is your super strength with Irene Solo."Irene lost her dad when she was eight and her husband when her children were young, but when you listen to Irene, you'll hear only her strength, her courage, and her light.Living as a teen under a bridge in South Africa rather than focusing on being hungry, she told herself she was fasting. When she lost her husband way too soon, she focused on being kind to others, and she always praises...2024-06-1051 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#085 What are you Holding onto Too Tight?What are you holding on to so tight that it's hard to breathe fully? It's hard to walk. It's hard to move. And why are you holding on to it? Our accumulated thoughts and way of behavior have made us an imposter to who we really are. We're living as a character, instead of as ourselves. Leo Brusccaglia said, "There are people waiting for someone like us to come along. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. In order to give wha...2024-06-0805 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#84 Jin Shin Jyutsu Guided Meditation to Realize the Lives We WantToday, I share with you a guided Jin Shin Jyutsu meditation that I taught this morning via zoom. We start with a healing hold to release attachment to thoughts and to balance digestion. I guide you through a body scan to balance mind, body and spirit. The meditation then allows you to take a birds-eye look at the life you're currently committed to. Not what's important to you, but rather the habits and way in which you're currently living, in a non-judgment way. As you go deeper into the meditation you get to see your life and y...2024-06-0318 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#083 Is It True What They Said?Is it true what they told you? So often when people give us advice, especially if they have a certain authority to their tone, it comes across as feeling as if it's fact or truth. But it's only a theory. It's based on their thinking and what they're believing. And if you'd like to receive weekly healing tips along with pictures of the self help, sign up on my website: https://suzanneabarron.com/ The information presented on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or prescribe for...2024-05-3003 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#82 Do You Remember the Sacrifice?Welcome back to Finding Joy in the Hard. On this Memorial Day, do you remember the sacrifices that were made for our freedom? I have to tell you, I often forget. I think about this holiday as a day off; a day to be with family and friends, but I often forget about all those who have died to give us our freedom. In this episode, I share some thoughts and my experience at the Memorial Day ceremony today—that I had no plans of attending. It was a spur of a moment decision on the way to ge...2024-05-2805 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#081 Do You Give Up if Something Doesn't Work Out the First Time?What if you can look at failure as a good thing? It's not easy for me. And yet there are so many examples of people who've failed and failed again and then found that thing that really inspires them.Maybe failure is a path to learning more. I was at the podcast summit this past Monday and Tuesday and the women speaking talked about how they love what they do but it took one failure after another to get there. Yesterday, I watched the movie Nyad about the 62 year old female swimmer who swam from Flori...2024-05-2604 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#080 What If Your Anxiety Is Really Excitement?Recently, I had an idea about an article I wanted to write. I got really excited about the idea. The next day, when I thought about it again, I got another fluttering, but this time it felt like anxiety. The first day, I was focused on the possibilities. The next day on the roadblocks and what it would take. But as soon as I realized that I paused focusing on the present moment and I dropped down into my body to see more clearly what the difference was between the two times. The first time I was in my cen...2024-05-2503 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#079 What Have You Decided You Can't Do?We all have these ideas of things we can't do. It's simply too hard. But is it? Or is that simply something we've never tried. I was convinced something I had set out to do would be too hard. Yet I was willing to try it anyway and you know what? It wasn't as hard as I expected. In fact, I learned a new technique . Listen and hopefully it will encourage you to take a chance at something you want to try.I also offer a new healing tip in this episode to he...2024-05-2405 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#78 What Lies are You Telling Yourself?For most of my life I've carried the belief that I'm not organized. I shared this with a few women at lunch the other day after I told them I record, edit and produce my own podcast and that I share an episode daily. I batch them and schedule them.They said I think that's a story you have to stop telling yourself. In fact it's a lie. What lies are you telling yourself. Listen to what you say. What lies are you repeating? If we can catch them, we can cha...2024-05-2403 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#077 Where Do You Want To Be A Year From Now? Where would you like to be a year from now?As humans, we're habitual creatures. We identify with our past and see ourselves for what we have done. But our past doesn't define us. James Clear suggests to create change, you only need to know the direction, not the destination. That's huge, right? If we only need to know the direction, then we can start now. Too often we're, we get stuck on not knowing the destination. And so we do nothing. The direction is enough to make the next choice. So what dir...2024-05-2202 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#076 Do You Know How Capable You Are?Do you realize how capable you are? Have you taken time recently to acknowledge the strength you've mustered or are currently mustering when you didn't think you could? Too often we focus on beating ourselves up, forgetting how powerful we are. We all have courage deep within. Author Debbie Ford calls it a divine confidence. One that can never be stripped away. She says, It doesn't come from being good at something or possessing vast amounts of information or a large bank account. It can never be found outside of us because it is within you. It...2024-05-2103 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#075 Are You Willing to Be Uncomfortable for 5 Minutes?Are you willing to be uncomfortable for five minutes? Starting is the hardest part. If we're willing to experience discomfort for as little as five minutes, we'll be less likely to procrastinate.And if you'd like to receive weekly healing tips along with pictures of the self help, sign up on my website: https://suzanneabarron.com/ The information presented on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or prescribe for any medical or psychological condition, nor to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure any such conditions. 2024-05-2001 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#074 What Have You Decided You're Too Old to Do?What have you decided you're too old to do? We've all heard or said he, she is too old to change. Do we believe this about ourselves? Consider this. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer said that in his book, The Power of Intention. A Course in Miracles reminds us we have given everything we see all the meaning it has for us. That includes the person we see in the mirror. Louise Hayes didn't publish her first book until she was 50. She didn't...2024-05-1902 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#073 Do you Fear Uncertainty? Do you make room for uncertainty in your life? We like having certainty. We like knowing how our day will go. We like assuming we are in control of everything, but uncertainty brings possibility. Think about it. When you're out and about and you run into a friend you haven't seen in a long time. You did not anticipate that encounter but you're filled with so much joy. That's uncertainty. That's possibility. In this episode I share how to get more comfortable with uncertainty. I also share a Jin Shin Jyutsu healing tip to help c...2024-05-1804 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#072 Do You Complicate Your Life? Have you ever thought about how we make our lives more difficult? Maybe you go to bed too late. Like me, staying up to watch Pretty Woman last night until ten of twelve. What was I thinking?Yes, I loved the movie, and yes, I fell asleep on the couch earlier, but that didn't mean that was going to help me. Do you hit the snooze button too many times in the morning? That's not helping you get any more sleep. Maybe you book your appointments too close together without time to b...2024-05-1703 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#071 Why Do We Believe the Bad Stuff? If five people said something nice about you and one person said something mean, what would you focus on? I asked my high school juniors this today. There were about 13 of them present and all of them, except one said they would focus on the mean thing. One student said the good, and I was so proud of him because most of us, myself included would focus on the bad. Why is that? We have to practice believing the positive; believing the good. In this episode, I share how and also offer a Jin...2024-05-1704 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#070 Are you Waiting For Permission?Are you waiting for permission to do something? If so, I give you permission. That's what a coach said to me a few years ago. Why do we wait to pursue our interests, our dreams, something we want to do? It has a lot with our nervous system. If it's an experience that we've never had before, the nervous system sends out messages of danger, danger, danger. Don't do it. And so then we pull back and we think, Oh, tomorrow will be better. But tomorrow never comes.In this episode, I share how...2024-05-1506 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#069 What If Resentment Is a Good Thing?What if resentment is a good thing? Kate Donovan, expert on burnout, believes it's our superpower as it lets us know when a boundary is missing. So often when we talk about boundaries, we talk about others crossing our boundaries, but a lot of times we cross our own boundaries. In this episode I share two examples of how cross our inner boundaries; how to recognize when we do it and how to shift. I also include a light touch (Jin Shin Jyutsu) healing tip.And if you'd like to receive week...2024-05-1406 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#068 What If You Can't Feel GratefulWhat if you can't feel grateful? If you've been listening to my podcast for a while now, you know I'm a huge proponent of gratitude journals. And while they can be life changing and super helpful, there are times in our lives that we just can't feel grateful , especially when we're burnt out.Kate Donovan, an expert on burnout and the author of the Bounce Back Ability Factor explains that when we're experiencing extreme sadness, anger, or burnout, we can't experience the physiological benefits of a gratitude journal. Instead, she suggests we do a res...2024-05-1403 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#067 Have Trouble Receiving Compliments? Might Impact You More Than You RealizeDo you have trouble receiving compliments? You might not think it's a big deal, but did you know your inability to receive small gestures impacts your ability to receive and allow the big things in life.How? Tune in to listen to this mini episode. And Happy Mother's Day.If you'd liked to receive information on my free Monday Morning guided Jin Shin Jyutsu meditations (10-15 min in length) via zoom sign up at https://suzanneabarron.com/And if you'd like to receive weekly healing tips along with pictures of...2024-05-1306 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#066 Want to Cancel Out 8 Hours of Worry a Day?Imagine you can cancel out 8 hours of worry a day - it's possible and guess what it only takes a consistent 4 minute daily practice. Have a listen and give it a try. It will change your life. And if you'd like to receive weekly healing tips along with pictures of the self help, sign up on my website: https://suzanneabarron.com/ The information presented on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or prescribe for any medical or psychological condition, nor to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure any...2024-05-1106 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#065 What You Lose When You People PleaseDo you know what you give up when you people please? You give up yourself. You put everyone's needs and interests ahead of your own—even strangers.I recorded this episode in Rome on my last day - it's pretty profound. If you're a people pleaser, it's definitely worth a listen. And if you'd like to receive weekly healing tips along with pictures of the self help, sign up on my website: https://suzanneabarron.com/ The information presented on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diag...2024-05-1005 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#064 Want to Feel More Abundant by Next Month?Want to feel more abundant by next month? And it takes only 15 minutes day. What I share in this episode seems too simple. The ego will tell you it's not possible. But I'm proof it is. Give it a try and let me know what you experience. And if you'd like to receive weekly healing tips along with pictures of the self help, sign up on my website: https://suzanneabarron.com/ The information presented on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or pres...2024-05-0902 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#063 Does Dreary Weather Bring You Down?Does dreary weather bring you down?Sometimes it really affects my mood. One day while driving to school where I teach Yoga for Stress Management, I considered this:When you go up in a plane, it's always sunny. Above the clouds and the dreariness is the sun. And if we can think like that and we can focus on just above what we see is light and so much light. Allow it to fill you up and see how you feel. It can shift our perspective. I shared this with my college students and it shift...2024-05-0802 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#062 Do You Ask for the Brownie?Do you ask for the brownie?In other words, do you ask for what you want despite the obstacles?In this episode, I share a story from my Belief coach. She shares how she and her daughter were at a cafe on vacation where there was a plate of cookies for free. Beside the cookies was a plate of brownies. Yet the brownies weren't free. The mom asked if she wanted a cookie. The daughter said, "I want a brownie." The mom reiterated that they weren't free. The daughter asked anyway. After going back and...2024-05-0702 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#061 Three Words Can Improve Your Public Speaking & Test TakingDo you ever get sweaty palms, a racing heart, feel like you're about to have a panic attack, or at least you're about to slip into a bout of nervousness? You can change the narrative by saying these three words. I AM EXCITED. Research shows that when people reappraise anxiety as excitement, they move out of a threat mindset of what can go wrong into an opportunity mindset of what can go right. Harvard Business School did a study where they studied this phenomenon of saying, I am excited in 3 situations: public speaking, test taking, and karaoke. 2024-05-0604 min

Finding Joy in the Hard#060 Remember This is Your First Time LivingThis wise piece of advice comes from my 16-year-old student. I had given a random act of kindness assignment to my Yoga for Stress Management students. I teach yoga at a nearby community college. In this episode, I share one of my student's random acts of kindness and an aha she had in her reflection.She realized simply because your a mom or an adult, you don't know everything. "This is all our first time living and we all get to learn every day!"And if you'd like to receive weekly healing tips a...2024-05-0503 min