Choosing joy on purpose.
The Hive is built around a simple idea: happiness does not always arrive on its own. Sometimes we have to look for it, notice it, and choose it.
Choosing joy is not denying what hurts.
Life can be painful, unfair, exhausting, and beautiful at the same time. The Hive makes room for all of it.
We call the small moments of beauty honeydrops. They are not cures for grief or hardship. They are things worth noticing anyway—the light through the trees, a flower opening, dew on the grass, a stranger's smile.
Choosing to BEE happy means practicing the search for those moments, especially when happiness does not come easily.
CONNIE KING
A choice that changed the way she lives.
The Hive grows out of a choice Connie first made for herself: to keep looking for joy even when life gave her every reason not to.
Connie has faced cancer five times—breast cancer three times, skin cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She is BRCA2-positive and has lived through repeated surgeries and difficult preventative choices connected to the gene mutation.
In December 2002, her husband died of lung cancer at 43. Connie was 42. Two weeks later, her father died after years of Parkinson's disease. She was left grieving while raising two young daughters and navigating life with two older children entering adulthood.
For 29 years, Connie was also a nurse, first in burn care and later in labor and delivery. She received a DAISY Award for extraordinary nursing care. The thing that made her care different was the same thing at the heart of The Hive: real connection. She has never needed a crowd. She would rather sit with one person, hear their story, and make them feel seen.
The full story of how “Choose to BEE Happy” became her practice—and eventually The Hive—is still being written with Connie herself.
The hard things are real. So are the honeydrops.The heart of The Hive