An innovative and clear guide that reveals the main ways trauma blocks joy and hope, and offers concrete strategies for healing. Joy does not appear only in moments when everything is going well. In fact, its brightest, tiniest, and most important fragments can only be found in the darkness. I want to teach you how to harness and amplify the power of that shining spark, because this infinite source of light will do much more than help you navigate your darkest, most frightening, and loneliest moments. In this work, Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald explores the six obstacles that keep us from joy: hypervigilance, emotional numbing, fear of loss, conditioning, guilt, and shame. From there, she proposes a new way of understanding positive emotions -- those small, steady, and sometimes uncomfortable experiences that arise in the dark and sustain true emotional resilience. Drawing on neurobiology that explains how trauma and suffering affect us, Dr. McDonald offers simple exercises that allow us to reconnect with joy and gratitude in small yet powerful doses. By showing that happiness and hope can also emerge in the toughest moments, Reset Joy helps us recognize the light even in the midst of darkness.