Hello and welcome to GemNjoyNow – my website for exploring innovative ways to uncover the joy in your life.
I’m Mary Grevelle Kennedy – visit this site to co-create personal transformation through joy. My doctorate is in Human Development from Fielding Graduate University – with an emphasis on the consciousness of joy. I enjoy helping others to expand their joy and to activate new awareness through private sessions, motivational speaking, and playing alchemical crystal singing bowls. In 2009, I released: “Gateway of the Heart” an exquisite, harmonizing journey of sound and other worldly dimensions. Over the last 5 years, I have been honored to share the stage with Marilyn Harper, Lee Carroll, Dr. Todd Ovokaitys, and Lenedra Carroll. I offer personal, joyful activations and accept commissions for crystal sound balancing recordings – designed especially for you.
My dissertation focused on the topic of joy and this blog is intended to expand and elaborate upon my studies.
To my surprise, I found joy to be transgressive and involve experiences that are “out of the ordinary and everyday” as in ritual, holidays and celebrations. Trickstering was included in my inquiry process; however, I didn’t expect it to be so prominent in my life as an aspect of joy. This highlights a paradox that I discuss in the later chapters of my dissertation. If joy is often experienced during extraordinary events, then how does tapping into joy everyday as in my inquiry process affect the dynamics of joy? Does joy become less valued if it is experienced more often or is it always there and accessible if I choose it? From the latter perspective, joy becomes a way of being as opposed to disconnected events that bring momentary joys. My inquiry invites readers to cocreate with me in this autoethnographic conversation of joy and to consider the possibility of a life that fully expresses joy. It is my hope that by participating in my process that readers will find ways to cultivate their own embers of joy and create a vision of the possible.
innovative ways to uncover the joy in your life.