Join Spark Your Health for an engaging and uplifting discussion with award-winning journalist, Steven Petrow.
In 2017, Steven Petrow experienced one of the worst years of his life – through losing parents, separating from his partner, and learning that his sister had metastatic cancer. He began contemplating how one can find joy during incredibly difficult times.
He explains that joy is not only around us, but within us. In Steven Petrow’s latest book, The Joy You Make: Find the Silver Linings — Even on Your Darkest Days, he explores the many expressions of joy and shows readers how to find, cultivate, and share it. If you are seeking ways to find joys in every facet of life, not just the grandiose moments, this talk is for you.
The connection between joy and grief are inseparable. Joy is present everywhere; it takes practice, we need to shift our mindset and we need to understand better to experience it. Petrow offers practical, prescriptive advice to find the joy around us including:
Joy is there if we only attune our eyes and our hearts to it.
Learn more about Steven Petrow’s book, The Joy You Make.
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Steven Petrow is an award-winning journalist and author who is best known for his Washington Post and New York Times essays …
Steven Petrow is an award-winning journalist and author who is best known for his Washington Post and New York Times essays on aging, health, and civility. He’s a contributor to NPR and other news outlets and his TED Talk, “Three Ways To Practice Civility,” has garnered nearly two million views. Petrow is the author of six previous books, including the bestselling Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old. He’s North Carolina’s 2024 Piedmont Laureate, and lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Katera has been an integral leader in 92NY’s athletics, health and wellness department for 10+ years …
Katera has been an integral leader in 92NY’s athletics, health and wellness department for 10+ years. She works closely with organizations such as ACSM and American Council of Exercise as a Physical Activity in Public Health Specialist, Health Coach and Group Exercise and Subject Matter Specialist. Katera is the founder of 92NY’s Spark Your Health, developed in 2022, a health & wellness initiative which provides cutting edge health-related talks and programs to thousands of people all over the country and world. Katera also moderates talks with experts for select Spark Your Health talks. Katera provided expertise for the design, equipment and creation of hundreds of new programs for the Penthouse Gymnastics Studio in the Sky in 2013. Her mission is to connect children and adults to physical movement in a positive and joyful manner so it becomes a lifelong habit. Katera enjoys bringing positive psychology into her work at 92NY and writes children’s books and novels in her spare time.
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