By Margarita Tartakovsky

As you rush through your responsibilities and put out the inevitable fires of your day-to-day, you might feel like joy is hard to come by. Or you might think that joy is reserved for bigger occasions like weddings, birthdays and holidays.

Joy doesn’t only live in the major moments. Joy lives in the seemingly little things. Here’s how you can find it.  

Margarita Tartakovsky, MS, is an associate editor at Psych Central and authors the body image blog “Weightless.” She writes about everything from anxiety and ADHD to creativity and couples to mindfulness and stress. You can learn more about her work at her website.