--- title: How to Find Your Path to Joy - Welcome and Introduction: Your Path to Joy Part 1 description: Step by step plan to come out of depression and into a meaningful life. Intro to six parts. canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/how-to-find-your-path-to-joy-introduction-and-welcome language: en-GB date: 2025-12-12T05:02:45Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/how-to-find-your-path-to-joy-introduction-and-welcome. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1352 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/how-to-find-your-path-to-joy-introduction-and-welcome. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![joy toddler flowers 4486570 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/joy_toddler_flowers-4486570_640.jpg)*Regardless of your age or situation, within you is your knowledge of joy. You can have it again.* Welcome to your new beginning on your path to joy. Searching for and finding your path is a task we face periodically throughout our lives. Growth and development never stops. The experience of loss and completion never stops. The need to feel alive and meaningful never stops. Read and follow these steps, and you will find yourself on your path to joy. I’ve done it. I’ve seen many clients do it. We do it more than once in our lives. We do it at the end of every stage in our lives. Endings are beginnings. --- **Complete Listing of Path to Joy** Part One: [Welcome and Introduction: Your Path to Joy Part 1](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/how-to-find-your-path-to-joy-introduction-and-welcome) Part Two: [New Begins with the End of Old: Your Path to Joy Part 2](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/new-begins-with-the-end-of-old-part-2-of-path-to-joy) Part Three: [Rally Yourself to Move Forward: Your Path to Joy Part 3](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/rally-yourself-to-move-forward-part-3-of-path-to-joy) Part Four: [Be a Trailblazer: Your Path to Joy Part 4](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/be-a-trailblazer-part-4-on-your-path-to-joy) Part Five: [Your Action Steps: Your Path to Joy Part 5](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/your-action-steps-part-5-on-your-path-to-joy) Part Six: [Stumbling Block Alert: Your Path to Joy Part 6](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/stumbling-block-alert-part-6-on-your-path-to-joy) --- **Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.** --- ***Written by Joanna Poppink, MFT.** Joanna is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in eating disorder recovery, stress, PTSD, and adult development.* *She is licensed in CA, AZ, OR, and FL. Author of the Book: [Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder](https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Your-Hungry-Heart-Recovering/dp/1573244708/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344473529&sr=1-1&keywords=healing+your+hungry+heart)* *Appointments are virtual.* *For a free telephone consultation, e-mail her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.* *For a free telephone consultation, e-mail her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.* ***Claiming the Lost Self: An Essential Task for Midlife Women* — a seven part series.** You may begin with the series introduction [here](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/recovery-healing/claiming-the-lost-self-an-essential-task-for-midlife-women-series-introduction). ```json { "@context": "http:\/\/schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Article", "author": { "@id": "https:\/\/eatingdisorderrecovery.net\/#joanna_poppink_da79445421" }, "dateModified": "2025-12-12T05:02:45Z", "datePublished": "2019-12-23T05:07:31Z", "description": "Step by step plan to come out of depression and into a meaningful life. 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