Prioritizing Joy + Optimism (with Katherine Center)
We all could use more joy in life. Christine chats with best-selling novelist Katherine Center about positive vs. negative valence theory, why prioritizing happiness and joy matters, amazing women writers, and more.
LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:
- Katherine Center and her full suite of books
- Mini Edit: Quick Mood Boost Ideas
- “Making a case for slow reading”
- Jenny Lawson’s blog The Bloggess + books Furiously Happy, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, You Are Here
- Katherine’s women writer book recommendations: The Identicals by Elin Hilderband; anything by Jo Jo Moyes (Still Me is the latest in the Me Before You trilogy); The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty; The Nightingale + The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah; Wishful Drinking, Shockaholic, and The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
- Two book recommendations from Christine: Pachinko + Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee