Author Event: Steven Petrow

Name: Author Event: Steven Petrow
Start: 2024-11-19T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587

Schedule

Tue Nov 19 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587 | Wake Forest, NC

Page 158 Books is excited to welcome author Steven Petrow to discuss his book, THE JOY YOU MAKE: Find the Silver Linings--Even on Your Darkest Days--out now.
In 2017, Steven Petrow experienced one of the worst years of his life. He lost both his parents, separated from his husband, and learned that his sister had metastatic cancer. He began to question: how can one find joy during incredibly difficult times? Award-winning Washington Post columnist Petrow explains that joy is not only around us, but within us. He examines this and so much more in his much-anticipated book THE JOY YOU MAKE: Find the Silver Linings--Even on Your Darkest Days. He explores the many expressions of joy and shows readers how to find, cultivate, and share it. Combining his personal experiences with research and expert interviews, Petrow asks (and answers) the question: “What if there was a way to find the joy in everything?” The connection between joy and grief are inseparable. Joy is present everywhere; it takes practice, we need to shift our mindset and we need to understand better to experience it.

Petrow offers practical, prescriptive advice to find the joy around us including:
How to Get Lost - give yourself permission to wander, pick an area you have never been to and go without a plan, just walk around, when you get home write about that excursion
Reclaiming Your Script – send an actual letter to a friend, yes, via snail mail
The Importance of Play - without competition
Embrace Aging – accept you will experience loss and grief, step outside your comfort zone
Making the Most of Anticipation – find something every day that you are looking forward to, either small or big
Steven Petrow is an award-winning journalist and author who is best known for his Washington Post and New York Times essays on aging, health, and civility. He’s a contributor to NPR and other news outlets and his TED Talk, “Three Ways To Practice Civility,” has garnered nearly two million views. Petrow is the author of six previous books, including the bestselling Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old. He is North Carolina’s 2024 Piedmont Laureate, and lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.