Small moments of joy are often the first to go when we're stressed or in a crisis. But they're actually a tool to restore our emotional well-being, says designer Ingrid Fetell Lee

The first moment of genuine joy is the moment of commitment to the human experience. Joy is what makes us human. When we deny that, when we push joy off to the margins, when we say it’s extraneous, or it’s a luxury, we lose a piece of our humanity.

Ingrid Fetell Lee

Joy is often the first thing to go when we’re stressed or experiencing a crisis. “If you feel yourself entering a mode of chronic stress, where it’s relentless, it’s very easy to dig in and say, I just have to get to the other side,” Lee points out. “That’s a good trigger to say, I should do some small and joyful thing now.”

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