When Everything Sucks, Rehearse Your Joy

Like a muscle, your ability to feel pleasure can deteriorate if you don’t use it

Ashley Abramson
Forge
Published in
3 min readMar 2, 2021

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Photo: Luca Upper on Unsplash

I keep a running mental list of things that make me belly laugh: videos of my kids when they were babies; old episodes of Impractical Jokers; a spontaneous FaceTime call with my best friend from college. When I catch myself slipping into doom and gloom, I pick…

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Ashley Abramson
Forge

Writer-mom hybrid. Health & psychology stories in NYT, WaPo, Allure, Real Simple, & more.