Achieving Joy presents Take Back my Desire: The Road to Joy is Desire

Achieving Joy will turn 8 years old! Thank all of you for being a part of this journey as we each seek to achieve joy in our own lives. Year seven proved to be a transformative year for me, and I realized ways I could grow as a leader and got a clearer direction on where I wanted to take the organization next. My biggest lesson is realizing the road to joy is through DESIRE. Many of you have heard me say that joy is happiness, pleasure, and aliveness that exists despite the presence of pain and sorrow, not in the absence of pain and sorrow. It is the embrace of the dualities of this life and how we can find more joy in the middle of chaos through desiring it. I invite you to go on a journey with me this upcoming year that I have coined “Embracing My Desire 2023”. We will launch Fall Equinox on September 21, 2022. We will spend three months exploring desire. 

Winter solstice we jump into our character.

Who do I need to be?

What do I need to confront so I can take hold of that which I have planned for my life?

It is my dream that in 2024 we have a year called “Living My Wildest Dreams”. I am aware that we might need some time to expand our capacity to hold the amount of desire/pleasure/vulnerability that exists in the midst of our Wildest Dreams. I know I do. So please come September 21, 2022, to our community Town Hall... learn about desire… dream about what that might look like for you… and learn about the Achieving Joy’s Healing Oasis Grand Opening … our Upcoming Following My Desire Retreats, and much more. Thank you for trusting your lives, stories, and dreams with us, and I hope we continue to be good stewards on this life journey with you.

See you soon!

Chioma Joy Petway

“Yanging Out”