A Recipe for Happiness

Kristin Maxwell:

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I am your host, Kristin Maxwell, and in this show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own world.

Today, I have the pleasure to be talking to Rebecca Morrison about a recipe for happiness. Rebecca Morrison is a lawyer turned executive leadership and happiness coach with a mission to spread joy by helping people discover what they need to live happier lives and build happier businesses. She loves to help successful, but unsatisfied people discover their own happiness recipes. She is also the author of the book, The Happiness Recipe. Rebecca or Becky, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.

Rebecca Morrison:

Thank you. You can call me Becky. I mean, Rebecca is what’s on the front of the book, but I only get that name used when I’m in trouble.

Rebecca Morrison:

Well, actually, no. I mean, so I’ve had to do it in my own life too. And I definitely, you said it. I’m a lawyer turned executive leadership and happiness coach. And when I tell people that they’re often like, well, how did you get from A to B? And the traveling from A to B was the result of some serious untangling starting way back about four and a half years out of law school. I had a toddler, I was married and still, I’m married and my husband had a really intense job. And I found myself one evening sitting on the floor of the bathroom with my toddler in the tub, the cordless phone clipped to the back of my pants, and the toilet seat cover closed with a notebook on it and paper all around. And I was doing two things at the same time. I was trying to bathe my toddler and I was trying to prepare an expert for their upcoming deposition. At the time I was like I said, four and a half years out of law school working as a litigator.

Rebecca Morrison:

And I had kind of two thoughts at that moment in quick succession. The first was who says you can’t do it all? I’m literally here, I’m a mom, I’m present and I’m also doing really well at work. I’m having some success, I’m killing it. And then the second thought was, and I’m exhausted, and I’m overwhelmed, and this is unsustainable and I’m not even sure I’m happy. And so that was the beginning for me of trying to untangle what it was that I needed from my life in order to be happy that maybe looks a little bit different from everything that I was told I should want, or that should define success. And so there is an element of it that I had to learn how to sort of unraveling from a very busy, full life place, the fundamentals of my own happiness recipe and then execute on them.

Kristin Maxwell:

Yeah. That’s so interesting. I have to mention, well, I don’t have to, but I will. I was also a litigator for 10 years and one of my memories is of my daughter screaming. I had to put her down for a nap and it was one of my days off because I was to go part-time but I was obviously working on my day off and she was screaming in her bedroom and it was the same thing. I was working on a summary judgment motion and I’m like, this is not sustainable.

Rebecca Morrison:

Yeah.  

Kristin Maxwell:

And also I realized I don’t like conflict so much, so there you go.

Rebecca Morrison:

And so that’s the second layer part of it right, Kristin? It’s like, something’s not working. Okay. Well, what is it that’s not working? Is it that I need a different schedule? Is it that the work isn’t really feeding my soul? What is the actual issue? And that’s, to me, where the untangling comes in is being able to get down to that sort of deeper level answer of what needs to be realigned in order to live in a happier way.

Kristin Maxwell:

Yeah. I think the thought I had again and again as I need to be helping. I’m not being helpful. I really need to be helpful. And I haven’t had that thought in a long time. So I hope that means I am being helpful.

Rebecca Morrison:

I like that. Yeah.Kristin Maxwell:

Yeah. Well, good. I am really excited because I know so many people right now are struggling with, for a variety of reasons, their own happiness, and feeling like there’s more. Anything we can do to start getting awareness on what it is that we need to do or having a path so it doesn’t feel so hopeless, I think is just crucial at this point. And I want to go deep into that, but let’s just go to a break first, and can you tell people where they can find your book and your work and all of that?

Rebecca Morrison:

Yeah. The best place is my website, which is called untanglehappiness.com. And that’s one-stop shopping. You can find links to the book, links to my work, and all about me. That’s where it’s located.

Kristin Maxwell:

Great. Thank you. Everybody go check that out. Her book is great actually. Very helpful. I can tell you this myself. And if you have any interest in finding out what we do in the Superpower Experts community, all of the programs we have, and the ways we bring people together, head over to yoursuperpoweredmind.com. Hang on. We’ll be right back.

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