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Joanna Gainesis opening up about how focusing on the things that bring her joy has helped her through some hard times.
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“I considered what I’m already drawn to, what I already know wakes me up and brings me life — nature, the garden, being in my kitchen, and the peace that meets me there — and I leaned in,” she says, explaining that she began reading, planting, and cooking like never before.
“For weeks, I pored over books, threw my hands into the soil, and filled every surfaces of the house with jars for canning just about anything,” she writes. “My family joked that I’d gone a little extreme, but for the first time in a long time I felt full, truly full. And at the end of those days, I was bursting with so much more to give. And really, that’s all that I was after.”
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Joanna has had an extremely busy year with the launch of her and Chip’s new lifestyle channel, Magnolia Network, which took over DIY Network on January 5 after launching on streaming service Discovery+ last summer.
In February 2021, PEOPLE reported that the cable launch of the Gaines’s network, originally planned for October 2020, then “early 2021,” would be pushed to January 2022 due to pandemic-related production delays.
“Our original plan was to launch in cable and follow in a streaming environment, but the most unconventional of years dealt us challenges and opportunities we never could have foreseen,” Magnolia Network President Allison Page said in a release at the time.
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Instead, they launched first with streaming,debuting Magnolia Network on Discovery+ in July 2021.
“I think, looking back, we couldn’t have planned it any better,” Joanna toldGood Morning Americahost Lara Spencer last month of finally introducing the channel.
“It’s January, it’s a new year,” she continued at the time. “Just the message of hope and inspiration from these storytellers and the stories that they’re telling… The world is ready for that kind of beauty to be seen.”
The Spring 2022 issue ofMagnolia Journalis available on newsstands Friday, February 11.
source: people.com
