disconnection from joy happens when you're stuck in automatic mode. that unhealed trauma keeps your nervous system focused on threat detection, leaving little capacity for positive emotions. how creates patterns where you're so focused on avoiding pain that you can't access joy, even when good things happen.
that joy requires a sense of safety and presence. When you're carrying unprocessed wounds, your mind is constantly elsewhere, worried about the past or future. that reconnecting with joy requires healing the trauma that maintains in conditioned mode. As you address those wounds, your capacity for positive emotions naturally expands.