your dose of happiness

  • Gratefulness hijacked

    What positive emotion do you feel most often? It starts so subtly you don’t even notice.One thought, one shadow, one heavy breath. And before you know it, something has taken over — hijacked your mind, blurred your sight. The world becomes flat, colorless. You can’t taste the sweetness of sugar in your tea, only the…

    Stefanie Anna

  • The Emergency Preparedness Plan for Your Soul in a Mad World

    Create an emergency preparedness plan. Step 1: Stockpile Your Inner Resources ○ Self-love: Enough to carry you through someone else’s meltdown without melting yourself.○ Boundaries: Like toilet paper—never run out, always keep extras.○ Laughter: Mandatory, even if it’s bitter and sarcastic at first. Step 2: Build Your Inner Team ○ The part of you that…

    Stefanie Anna

  • Alignment: The Spiritual Red Bull Everyone’s Chugging

    What is a word you feel that too many people use? Alignment. Soul alignment. Divine alignment. Vibrational alignment. Everyone chases it like it’s a sip of magic that will make them whole. They meditate for alignment, journal for alignment, breathe for alignment, whisper it to the sky—and still, nothing. Still hollow. Still jittery. Still running…

    Stefanie Anna

  • “If Joy Had an Address”

    If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? If I were going to open a shop, it wouldn’t be the kind where you pop in, grab your thing, and leave with a plastic bag.No. It would be a soul-supply store. The shelves?Stacked with jars of belly laughs, the kind that…

    Stefanie Anna

  • “The Compass and the Crumbs”

    What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? My heart… and maybe snacks.Because honestly, you can’t pour love from an empty cup —and you definitely can’t give good hugs when you’re hangry.Carry your heart like it’s a compass, pointing you to joy in the smallest, messiest moments.The smell of rain…

    Stefanie Anna