You have been working hard for so long. And you are so busy. And sometimes you GO GO GO - so much so that joy begins to get categorized as a luxury. And after years of denying yourself joy - you realize, my goodness, part of my spirit has been dying. What happened to the person that used to...?

Catia Hernandez Holm knows this feeling well and dove into researching joy. What is it? How can we choose it? How can we live with JOY? What is a good pathway? What happens when we deny ourselves joy? 

Here are some snap shots of a night of lively conversation as she shared her TEDx Lady Bird Lake talk, Choose Joy or Die , with the RGV.