Joy Let Loose

March 17, 2022

How to step in, even when you feel disqualified

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Have you been afraid of what God is calling you to? Does it feel just too big for you?

It probably is. And you probably won’t get it right. And you’ll see failure along the way, and experience moments where you want to quit. How’s that for hope for you today?

Listen, if the call you sense in your innermost being seems just too huge for little you, can I introduce you to a few people?

-Moses

-Jonah

-Elisha

-David

-Peter

Just to name a few…

All were called

All of them were called. All of them were too small.

They each doubted at some point that they could fulfill their calling. All eventually clung to the Lord and followed His direction in some way.

They each left incredible legacy, and showed us that legacy is possible despite human frailty, when we lean into the Lord, trust His voice, and choose to step forward with courage.

We won’t get it right

We won’t get it all right – we will fail sometimes. We’ll doubt ourselves, and we will doubt God.

We’ll say the wrong thing, and avoid the right conversation.

We’ll hide. We’ll get angry.

We’ll even lament our lot In life maybe.

But if God is welling something up under the surface, if He is calling us to something bigger than ourselves, we need to answer. And He’ll help us walk it out.

Let’s not put it off anymore.

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9 NIV)

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January 1, 2022

Create Your Happy New Year

The New Year brings lots of hope for change, but often convinces us to make unreasonable promises to ourselves. This year, let’s simplify and commit to repeated small steps toward our ultimate purpose.

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Happy New Year to you!

I pray that you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends, and that you have experienced the nearness of Emmanuel this season.

As we enter the New Year, we are often tempted to make huge (sometimes unreasonable) promises to ourselves, unwittingly setting ourselves up to fail.

I don’t want that for you.

Instead, I pray that you stay close to the heart of the Father, asking Him for guidance. I pray that you are intentional to simplify your activities. I pray that you are reasonable and purposeful in setting one daily and one weekly action step that help lead toward your goals, seeking accountability from someone who will help you stay on track.

I pray that in this next season you make the choice to invest in your wellness and your future by trusting a coach who hears from the Lord and desires to help you unlock your purpose.

You can find out more about how I help people with their life purpose right here.

7 helpful tasks for the first week of 2022

An Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.


May God be with you and bless you:
May you see your children’s children.
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.


May the road rise up to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near.


May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you

For your joy,

Elizabeth Joy

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November 5, 2021

5 Ways to Simplify the Holidays and Avoid Burnout

Instead of the holiday season “impending” this year, let’s be proactive to create the space we need for expectation. Let’s simplify the holidays and avoid burnout.

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Do the holidays sometimes feel like they are “impending”?

Somehow, every year I  get shocked when Halloween decorations show up in the stores in July, and the Christmas trees are already selling in September. 


It drives me nuts, if I’m honest.


It makes me feel like I’m being rushed through the year, and I also find it leads me toward holiday burnout.
I mean, it creates in me a sense of adrenaline, and “I’ve got so much to do for Thanksgiving/Christmas and I need to start NOOOOOWWWWW.”


Then by the time the holidays actually arrive, I’m over it.

So I’ve needed to embrace important rhythms to help me not to get burned out. Because I don’t want to enter the holiday season tired, or resentful.I want to be able to embrace the whole meaning of it, and the important family time with peace, and hope, and joy.

5 ways to simplify the holidays and avoid burnout

  • Start now by making the decision to keep a healthy pace this holiday season.

Since it’s the top of November, you have the opportunity right now to craft your schedule ahead of time in a way that serves your family well.

Make a list of the very top priorities for you (i.e. faith celebrations, family time at home, certain holiday gatherings) and get them on your calendar now. Decide that it’s ok to say “no” to the extra things that pop up. 

  • Look for ways to combine multiple annual traditions into one.

If you are a DIY gift maker, and you also typically host a cookie exchange, and you always have a Christmas party with the girls, could you gather your friends together for a 3-in-one, where you make your gifts while the cookies are baking and you are drinking eggnog? We can find creative ways to simplify the holidays.

  • Plan to do a personal or family Advent Study this year.

Advent is all about waiting. This year it begins on November 28th. It’s an inhale of breath, expecting and anticipating the arrival of Jesus. Advent can be a beautiful season of slowing down, acknowledging our need of a Savior, and prioritizing our faith.

The Adore Advent Study from Joyful Life Magazine is part of this beautiful Deluxe Winter Set, or can be downloaded on its own.

  • Instead of giving dozens of gifts this year for Christmas, why not consider giving people the gift of an experience?

Think about the people you normally purchase gifts for (your own immediate family, your sister’s family, your brother’s family etc.). What lights them up? What pulls them together?
Find a gathering opportunity near them that they would love (an Escape Room, a concert, a scavenger hunt etc.) and purchase one gift card for the whole family. Create a fun video explanation or a card to send them explaining the joy you want for them to experience. Bam! Your shopping for them is done and you have saved yourself hours in the mall.

  • Finally, and perhaps most significantly, start today to create a daily and weekly rhythm of rest.

Practice prioritizing a segment of each day, and at least one day each week to rest, recharge, and simply breathe. If you practice this with regularity in the early weeks of November, it can become an established habit that will be easier to maintain through the holiday weeks.

Let’s simplify the holidays

Instead of the holiday season “impending” this year, let’s be proactive to create the space we need for expectation. For anticipation. We have the opportunity right now to change the story we are writing. So let’s write a purposeful one.

If you share on socials about purposeful choices you are making this season, please hashtag it #yourpurposefulstory so I can see it!

Tell me in the comments: How are you living on purpose this season? 

Elizabeth JOY

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October 17, 2021

Your True North Is Your Joyful Direction

Do you have a guide to help you find your true north? Or are you batting at the chaos of life without an intentional plan to build your joyful legacy? I’d love to help you write your purposeful story.

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Have you ever studied the skies? Wondered how the North Star always points north? Have you ever longed for stability like that and a clearly charted course when the world all around you feels like a swirling chaos?

I have. For a really long time, if I’m honest.

And I’ve found out that my true north is ultimately my joyful direction.

Your true north is your joyful direction

I’ve been on a journey, kind of like an astronomer actually. I initially was looking way up and seeing thousands of stars in the darkest of nights. I couldn’t perceive any sort of rhyme or reason, pattern or perspective other than that I felt V-E-R-Y small and the universe seemed I-M-M-E-N-S-E-L-Y large.

No, I’m not actually an astronomer. I’m just a regular person with my feet planted on the earth.

But for many years, it felt to me like life was swirling around me. It seemed as though I couldn’t really make sense of what was coming at me, and I didn’t have the ability to focus on what mattered most and how I could be the most effective human I could.

I didn’t know much about myself and I got myself involved in a thousand things, hoping that eventually something would stick and be important.

I was navigating the stars without any concept of direction, constellations, or galaxies.

I didn’t have a telescope to help me find my true north. So my life was hectic, exhausting, joyless, and discouraging.

Sound familiar?

Joy Let Loose: My True North

I’ve written quite a bit about discovering deeper purpose, and I’ve told you a lot about how Joy Let Loose came to be.

My personal mission statement is:

I exist to let joy loose in the people around me by helping them find holistic wellness and uncover their life purpose so they can leave a joyful legacy.

That mission statement took a long journey for me to craft, through seasons of self-discovery and prayer, tears and determination. I didn’t have a roadmap for it, but the Lord was a gentle guide.

I didn’t have a roadmap, so I’ve constructed one to help others through their own process with greater ease.

Your Purposeful Story

I’ve realized that I can be a more intentional participant in the authorship of my story on earth when I uncover what God created me for. It’s only when I’m truly open to who I was made to be that I can take purposeful steps to lean into His intentions for me. And when I live that way I find greater joy and I see more fruit grow.

And I’m here at launch week.

I’m nervous. Will anyone come?

Will anyone decide it’s worth their time to spend 90 minutes with me to walk through my signature roadmap so they can also uncover their purpose and craft their own mission statement?

I honestly don’t know how this will go.

I just know it’s the next step that I’m supposed to take. And I believe it could be powerful for others to take courage to join me.

My true north / Your true north

What about you? I

  • If you’ve been a faithful reader of this blog, has God been stirring anything in you?
  • Has He whispered into your heart that you were made for more?
  • If you have trusted my words on these pages, would you trust my words even more directly into your journey?

It’s my invitation to you, dear reader, to take courage and take another step with me deeper into your legacy. I know that legacy I want to leave – it’s reflected in my personal mission statement.

And part of that fleshes itself out in helping people like you take your next steps toward building yours.

Because building a legacy produces the fruit of joy both now and long after we are gone.

Would you check out my life coaching this week so we can begin to uncover your personal mission statement and start writing your purposeful story?

Let’s pick up the telescope together and find your true north.

https://elizabethrhyno.com/purpose-coachin

I hope to see you really soon!

Elizabeth Joy

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June 7, 2021

Do You Want to Establish Your Life Purpose?

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What’s the reason you get up in the morning? What draws you to put your feet on the floor? Does it fuel you with JOY?

I’ll be honest that many mornings saw my feet hit the floor out of sheer necessity. I didn’t roll out of bed with excitement for what lay ahead of me in the day. In fact I dreaded it, both when working, and when at home with my kids. I didn’t really have a plan or specific goals, or feel at all purposeful. I just knew I had to get up in the morning.

Do You Want to Establish Your Life Purpose?

PSA: It shouldn’t take someone to hit their forties before they discover their life can radiate with purpose.

It shouldn’t be long before they unlock what brings them meaning and joy. It did for me though. I floundered.

But now my season of purposelessness and floundering fuels me to help other people discover their joyful purpose earlier. To establish purpose now. To build the life that not only leaves an incredible impact on the world, but also brings genuine joy and satisfaction. It’s never too early or too late for that while we still draw breath.

Several years back, I head this phrase deep in my soul: Joy Let Loose. If you’ve been around these parts, you know that the phrase itself made no sense in my context at the time because I was battling depression and facing difficult times with my kids and my own motivation.

Joy Let Loose

But I now know that phrase was the gift of a seed that managed to plant its way into my undeserving soil, and take root.

Joy Let Loose first became a blog. Because honestly that’s the only thing I could think of to do with it. I was kind of stuck at home at the time, and unable to work, so I figured I’d do something I was decent at, and use this new phrase as a title. On this blog, it became both a lens and a benchmark for how I would serve my readers. I soon discovered many other people were also starving for joy.

As time progressed and I wrote more for this blog, I had opportunity to write in a few other publications as well. No matter where my words landed, I made the effort to keep JOY as my lens. Because people want to be more joyful.

A Reason to Get Up in the Morning

On social media, I curated and created content to help bring people JOY. People were finding it helpful. Then when I launched as a Brand Partner with Young Living, I found my chief audience were women desperate for help with their hormones and emotions. They needed to find sanity in the chaos of everyday life, and were also floundering. Now I have been so blessed to come alongside a couple hundred people to manage those emotions safely and holistically. And I have the honor of mentoring other Brand Partners as they lean into their purpose too.

As my customers were seeing results in their physical, mental, and emotional wellness, I quickly realized my new small business was an extension of my purpose to let JOY loose in people. And my small business and community brings me exceptional joy.

That’s really just a snapshot of a focused process that helped me lift up my head from discouragement, cultivate purpose, and lean into it. There were intentional steps I needed to take to examine myself and my motivations, to learn how my past hurts were impacting me, and how my perspective needed shifting.

I’m so incredibly glad I put in that work to gain clarity and direction.

Coming Soon

I became certified as a Life Coach, and I have a growing desire to teach people. I want to help folks who feel joyless and purposeless how to rewrite their stories like I did. How to reframe past experiences, leverage their unique skills and passions, and lean into a more focused life.

I am currently beginning to offer life coaching services to help you find your life purpose.

I’m really excited as the ideas and content come together. And I’m praying over each and every client that the Lord will lead my way. It is rewarding to see how my own story, my teaching skills and ministry and life coaching training have prepared me to lead other people toward lives of impact, joy, and fulfillment.

I am looking for people who want a reason to jump out of bed in the morning. I’m looking for those who feel joyless but want to let joy loose. I’m praying for those who feel lost, but want to find and live out your life purpose.

Stay Up to Date

If that sounds like you, I’d love to add you to my email list so you can stay up to date as the pilot course gets ready to launch. Do you want to establish your life purpose? I would be honored to help you! Simply click here to stay up to date!

Thanks for much for being here! If you know someone facing purposelessness, I’d be so grateful if you shared this with them, or on your social media channels!

Elizabeth JOY

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