Enjoying Joy

A nervous system framework for feeling safe in your own aliveness

Welcome to Enjoying Joy —courses in joy, play, awe, and wonder—created for the adults who learned to survive everything, but never learned how to let the good stuff land.

Joy isn’t childish. Joy is capacity.
And capacity can be rebuilt.

Explore the Courses

No forced positivity. No “just be happy.”
Just slow, nervous-system-safe pathways back to yourself.

The Problem

Most adults don’t feel safe in joy.

Not because they’re broken, and not because they’re ungrateful—
but because their nervous systems were wired in environments where joy wasn’t reliable, safe, or allowed.

When you grow up in survival mode, your body learns to track threat, not delight.

It sharpens vigilance. It tightens. It prepares.

And anything that feels good—joy, play, awe, wonder—gets registered as suspicious, dangerous, or fleeting.

So you don’t relax into it.
You brace for the moment it disappears.

This isn’t a mindset problem.
It’s physiology.
It’s patterning.

It’s the very natural outcome of a life spent managing pain, conflict, chaos, or overwhelm.

But here’s the truth most people never learn:
Your body can relearn safety with the good.
Your nervous system can build capacity for delight.
Joy can become something you hold—not something you flinch away from.

This work exists because adults deserve a second chance at aliveness.

Not the loud, performative aliveness sold on social media—
but the grounded kind.
The steady kind.
The kind that lets you feel present, connected, and here for your own life.

This is post-survival education.

A reclamation of everything you didn’t get to feel the first time around. A chance to move from a survival shell to embodied fullness.

And it starts small.
With curiosity.
With permission.

With learning—slowly, safely—how to receive what is already good.

Ok, but why?

Why joy, play awe & wonder are necessary for healing

Most people think healing is about digging, processing, and understanding.

And yes—those things matter.
But they don’t build a life.

A regulated, embodied life is built from the other direction:
through joy, play, awe, and wonder.

The nervous system doesn’t expand through suffering.
It expands through safety.
Through moments where your body receives the signal:
“I’m allowed to feel good.”

This is why joy matters.

Not the bubbly, performative kind—
but the quiet, steady kind that lets your body unclench for the first time in years.

Joy is capacity.

It teaches your system that pleasure doesn’t have to lead to pain.
That goodness isn’t a trick.
That you can stay open without being blindsided.

Play is repair.

Real play—the adult kind, the exploratory kind—rewires patterns of vigilance.
It loosens rigidity.
It returns you to curiosity, which is the nervous system’s first step out of survival mode.

Awe is perspective.

It widens the frame.
It gives your brain moments of spaciousness, humility, and connection that interrupt looping fear.
Awe is the fastest way science knows to quiet the ego and soften shame.

Wonder is medicine.

It dissolves certainty.
It lets you step into your life with gentleness instead of self-judgment.
It reintroduces mystery, which trauma steals.

Together, these four states create the conditions where healing can actually land—not as a concept, but as an experience your body recognizes as true.

This is why the work you’ll find here isn’t about chasing happiness or forcing positivity.

It’s about rebuilding your internal capacity to feel alive in a world that once taught you to go numb.

Joy. Play. Awe. Wonder.

These aren’t luxuries.
They are the nervous system’s original language.
And returning to them is how we remember who we were before survival took over.

The Courses

Joy Curious

Learning to feel safe
in the good
(4 Weeks)

Most adults don’t need louder joy.
They need safer joy.

Joy Curious is the entry point into this work — a four-week foundation for people who want to experience more goodness in their lives but don’t yet trust it.

This course is gentle on purpose.
It’s built for nervous systems that have lived in vigilance, for people who can hold pain with both hands but flinch at pleasure, and for anyone who has ever felt suspicious of feeling good.

The structure is simple:
Short teachings.
Tiny nervous-system-safe practices.
A slow, steady reawakening of curiosity about what your life could feel like.

Joy Curious is for you if:
You want more life, but the idea of “chasing joy” feels exhausting, childish, or impossible.
You don’t want to go deep into trauma — you want to learn how to build capacity for the good.

This is the doorway.

Enrollment begins January 1, 2026

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Investment:
Supported: $97 *limited spots available
Standard: $197
Sustainer: $347

For more about this adaptive pricing structure, click here.

In Joy Curious, you will:

  • Build micro-capacity for positive states without overwhelm

  • Learn why joy triggers contraction (and how to unwind that pattern)

  • Explore adult play as a regulation tool

  • Reintroduce awe and wonder as body-based experiences

  • Practice receiving small moments of delight safely, without bracing

  • Develop language and literacy around good feelings (most adults don’t have this)

Joy Trusting

Learning to hold what
you’ve always wanted
(8 Weeks)

If Joy Curious teaches you how to touch the good,
Joy Trusting teaches you how to hold it.

This course is an 8-week deepening — a middle path for people who can access moments of joy but can’t seem to trust, sustain, or stay with them.

It’s not about becoming “a joyful person.”
It’s about becoming a person whose nervous system no longer rejects goodness on contact.

The experience is deeper, steadier, and more integrative:
More repetition.
More embodiment.
More nervous-system attunement.
More gentle exposure to ways of being you were never taught.

Joy Trusting is for you if:
You’ve done some healing. You’re functional. You’re capable.
But you don’t feel alive — not in a sustainable way.

If you’re ready to move from curiosity to trust,
this is your next chapter.

Enrollment begins January 1, 2026

Join the Waitlist

Investment:
Supported: $197 *limited spots available
Standard: $397
Sustainer: $647

For more about this adaptive pricing structure, click here.

In Joy Trusting, you will:

  • Strengthen your capacity to stay open without bracing

  • Learn the neuroscience of delight, pleasure, and presence

  • Explore adult play as pattern rewiring

  • Build rituals of awe and wonder that anchor regulation

  • Practice internal safety with receiving, not performing

  • Interrupt the cycles that make joy feel dangerous or “too good to be true”

  • Learn how to tolerate good feelings for longer periods without self-sabotage

  • Begin developing trust in yourself as someone who can hold softness without losing control

Which Course is Right for Me?

A clear, shame-free comparison to help you choose the space that fits your nervous system right now.

Joy Curious (4 Weeks)

Joy Trusting (8 Weeks)

You’re in the right place if:

  • You often feel numb, disconnected, or “flat” inside.

  • You’re curious about feeling good but also intimidated by it.

  • You shut down, withdraw, or get overwhelmed when things feel too positive.

  • You want to start small, slow, and simple.

  • You’re exhausted by “inner work” and want something gentler.

  • You’ve spent years in survival mode and don’t know what joy feels like in your body.

  • You prefer micro-practices and short lessons.

  • You want to get comfortable touching the good — without pressure to hold it.

  • You see yourself as a beginner in joy, play, awe, and wonder.

  • You’re unsure what you need — this is the safest starting point.

You’re in the right place if:

  • You can access joy or pleasure sometimes, but you can’t sustain it.

  • You want stability — not just glimpses — of feeling alive.

  • You brace for things to go wrong when life gets good.

  • You’re ready to deepen into steadier, more regulated joy.

  • You’ve done some healing and want to integrate it into daily life.

  • You want to build trust with yourself, your feelings, and your aliveness.

  • You want more time, repetition, and structured support.

  • You want to learn to stay open to goodness instead of tightening or self-sabotaging.

  • You’re not a beginner — you’re ready for a fuller, steadier embodiment of the work.

  • You feel something waking up in you — and you want to build on it.

In One Sentence…

Choose Joy Curious if you need a gentle reintroduction to goodness, safety, and aliveness.

Choose Joy Trusting if you’re ready to stay with goodness, stabilize it, and let it reshape your daily life.

A Quick Nervous System Check-In

If you’re unsure where you belong, ask yourself:

  • “Do good things feel unfamiliar or uncomfortable in my body?” → Joy Curious

  • “Do good things feel good, but I can’t keep them?” → Joy Trusting

  • “Do I want tiny, low-stakes experiments?” → Joy Curious

  • “Do I want deeper rewiring and rhythmic practice?” → Joy Trusting

There is no wrong door.
There is only the door your nervous system is ready for.

What Makes These

Courses Different?

Gentle. Trauma-informed. Nervous-system safe.
A grounded path back to your own aliveness.

There are plenty of programs that talk about joy, mindset shifts, or “inner child healing.”

But that’s not what I teach.

I created these courses because adults who’ve lived through hard things need something different —
a way back to themselves that feels honest, paced, and actually doable for their nervous systems.

Here’s what makes this work unique:

1. I will never ask you to “be positive.”

Joy here is never forced.
You won’t be coached into pretending, performing, or bypassing what’s real.

Instead, I help you learn how to feel safe with small moments of goodness — at a pace your body can hold.

2. This is trauma-informed without making you rehash your trauma.

You will never be asked to share your story, go into painful memories, or explain your past.

We’ll focus on the part of healing most people never learn:
how to receive what is good, nourishing, and gentle — without flinching.

3. Everything I teach is rooted in nervous system science (with room for soul).

You’ll learn how joy, play, awe, and wonder regulate your system;
why certain emotions feel overwhelming;
and how to build capacity slowly and sustainably.

No jargon.
No dogma.
Just grounded, understandable truth.

4. Play is used as adult nervous-system repair, not childish reenactment.

I don’t have you “act like a kid.”

I help you access the parts of you that can explore, imagine, and loosen the grip of survival mode — as an adult with agency and boundaries.

5. You won’t be pressured to share, perform, or open up before you’re ready.

These courses are regulated spaces, not emotional free-for-alls.

You can participate quietly.
You can stay off-camera.
You can choose your own level of engagement.
Safety and choice always come first.

6. I offer adaptive pricing so money doesn’t become a barrier.

You choose the tier that fits your resources — no explanation required.
Accessibility matters to me, and so does modeling sustainability.

7. I design everything with sensitive, overstimulated adults in mind.

If you hold pain easily but shut down when things get good,
if you’ve been told you’re “too sensitive,”
if joy feels foreign or fleeting — these courses were made for you.

8. The work is built for integration, not overwhelm.

Short lessons.
Simple practices.
Steady repetition.
Nothing designed to overload your system.

This isn’t about doing more — it’s about feeling more alive inside what you already have.

9. You don’t have to show up as your “best self.”

There’s no pressure to be inspiring, healed, or high-energy.
You can arrive exactly as you are — tired, hopeful, numb, curious, or unsure.
This work meets you there.

10. I teach this because it’s the work I had to learn for myself.

I’m not guiding you from theory.
I’m guiding you from lived experience, years of study, and deep personal practice.

I know what it’s like to brace against joy…
and I know what it feels like to finally let it in.

You’ll feel the difference.

Adaptive
Pricing

A shame-free, sustainable way to make this work accessible.

Money should never be the reason someone can’t learn to feel safe in joy again.

And at the same time, my work is labor — emotional, intellectual, and energetic — and it deserves to be supported.

Adaptive pricing honors both.

You choose the tier that fits your current resources.
There are no applications, no explanations, and no proof required.
You’re trusted to choose what’s appropriate for your life.

This is accessibility without shame, and sustainability without burnout.

How it works

Each course has three pricing tiers.

The content is the same for everyone — the only difference is what you’re able to contribute right now.

Choose the tier that aligns with your reality:

TIER 1: Supported

For those with limited financial resources.

Choose this tier if paying more would add stress, require sacrifice, or strain your basic needs.

This tier exists so cost doesn’t become another barrier to feeling alive again.

TIER 2: Standard

For those with stable financial resources.

Choose this tier if you can meet your needs comfortably, participate in extras (like eating out or small treats), and pay for the course without hardship.

This tier sustains the bulk of the work and keeps the entire model thriving.

TIER 3: Sustainer

For those with abundant or flexible financial resources.

Choose this tier if you are able to pay more as a way of supporting others in accessing the work.

Your contribution offsets Supported-tier spots and helps me keep pricing accessible without burning out.

This tier is generosity in action — a quiet act of community care.

A Note About Choosing Your Tier

There is no “right” choice.
There is only the choice that honors your reality.

You won’t be asked to justify your tier.
You won’t be asked to disclose anything personal.
You won’t be treated differently based on what you pay.

Pick the tier that lets you participate without stress, guilt, or pressure.

You’re trusted to know what that is.

Why I Offer Adaptive Pricing

Because healing — real, grounded, nervous-system healing — should not be reserved for people with disposable income.

Because survivors and sensitive souls often carry financial wounds from the very histories that made joy feel unsafe.

Because accessibility matters to me and sustainability matters for the longevity of this work.

This model allows both to exist together.

No shame.
No hierarchy.
Just a clear, compassionate way to meet people where they are.

FAQs

  • No.

    This work is part of healing.

    You don’t need to be in a perfect emotional place — you only need to be willing to start small and go slowly.

  • No.

    This is not a replacement for therapy or mental health treatment.

    These courses focus on nervous-system capacity, not trauma processing.

    Many people take this work alongside their therapeutic support, though it is not required.

  • Absolutely not.

    You choose your level of participation.

    You can stay private, off-camera, or simply listen.

    You’re never required to open up or revisit painful experiences.

  • Most people find this work regulating, not activating.

    Everything is designed to meet your nervous system gently, with choice points built into every step.

    That said, any work involving the body and emotions can stir things up — which is why the pacing is slow and supportive. Should something trigger a deeper emotional wound or traumatic experience, I recommend contacting a therapist for further support.

  • Not in the traditional sense.

    There are short practices, reflections, or invitations you can try throughout the week — all designed to be manageable, even on your most overwhelmed days.

  • You won’t be behind.
    You work at your pace.

    You will have lifetime access to the lessons, and you can revisit them whenever you need.

    Your nervous system sets the timeline — not the calendar.

  • Then you’re exactly who this work is for.

    Joy Curious and Joy Trusting were created for adults who find good feelings overwhelming, suspicious, or inaccessible.

    You don’t have to feel joy to begin.
    You only need to feel curious.

  • Not at all.

    Play here has nothing to do with personality or performance.

    It’s about exploration, loosening tight patterns, and giving your nervous system moments of freedom.

    You can be quiet, thoughtful, reserved — and still benefit deeply.

  • This work is specifically designed for sensitive, overstimulated, or shutdown nervous systems.

    Short lessons. Simple practices. No pressure.

    This is healing for the over-functioners, the overthinkers, and the quietly exhausted.

  • Think 1–2 hours, depending on how you engage.

    The core lessons are intentionally short, and the practices are small enough to weave into real life.

  • Yes, as long as you’re not in an active crisis requiring immediate clinical support.

    This work is built for tender seasons, slow seasons, transitional seasons — times when you’re craving gentleness, grounding, and reconnection.

  • The format depends on the course, but yes — you will have access to me through weekly Zoom meetings (hybrid courses only), prompts, and support inside the course container.

    This is not a faceless program.

  • Yes.

    You don’t need prior experience with somatics, mindfulness, or embodiment.

    You’ll learn everything step by step.

  • Use the comparison chart above — or start with Joy Curious if you’re unsure.

    It’s always better to begin gently and move forward when your body is ready.

  • No.

    The work is rooted in nervous-system science with room for meaning, awe, and inner truth — but without religious or spiritual doctrine.

How I teach

A slow, spacious, trauma-informed approach to rebuilding your relationship with joy.

My work is rooted in one simple belief:
your nervous system already knows how to feel alive — it just needs a safe way back.

I don’t teach through pressure, intensity, or emotional excavation.
I teach through presence, pacing, and attunement.

Here’s what that means in practice:

I teach slowly, on purpose.

Rushing never helps a dysregulated nervous system.
I move at a pace that makes space for your body to actually absorb what we’re doing — not just understand it intellectually.

You won’t be overwhelmed here.
You’ll be invited.

I trust your timing.

I don’t push you into anything you’re not ready for.
You get to choose how you participate, how deeply you go, and how fast you move.

Your body sets the pace.
I simply guide the path.

I blend science with soul.

I ground everything in nervous-system research —
and then I teach it in a way that feels human, meaningful, and gently spiritual without doctrine.

I care about what the brain knows,
but I care just as much about what the heart remembers.

I don’t ask for vulnerability as proof of participation.

You never have to share personal stories or be emotionally open to learn here.
Your quiet presence is enough.

Some people speak.
Some people sit back and take it in.
Both are honored.

I value small shifts over big breakthroughs.

This work isn’t about monumental “aha” moments or dramatic transformation.
It’s about subtle, steady changes that become new ways of being.

A single moment of softening matters.
A single breath of ease matters.
A single spark of delight matters.

That’s how capacity is rebuilt.

I teach what I’ve lived.

I’m not speaking from theory.
I rebuilt my own relationship with joy from the ground up — slowly, clumsily, and honestly.

I know what it feels like to brace against goodness.
I know what it feels like to fear softness.
I know what it feels like to want to feel alive and not know how.

Everything I teach comes from lived experience, rigorous study, and deep personal practice.

You’ll feel that difference.

I hold the work with reverence.

Joy, play, awe, and wonder aren’t frivolous to me.
They’re sacred.
They’re stabilizing.
They’re the birthright so many of us were taught to turn away from.

My role isn’t to make you “more joyful.”
My role is to help you feel safe enough to let joy meet you again.

Who These Courses are for
(and not for)…

A clear, gentle guide to help you know if this work is right for you.

These courses aren’t for everyone — and that’s okay.
They’re designed for a very specific kind of nervous system, a very specific kind of life history, and a very specific longing.

Here’s how to know if this is your space:

This work is for you if…

  • You hold pain easily, but good feelings slip through your fingers or make you tense.

  • You’re not doing anything wrong — your nervous system just learned early that “the good” wasn’t safe or reliable.

  • You know how to be responsible.

    You don’t know how to be at ease.

  • You might feel moments of lightness, but they vanish quickly or send you into self-protection.

    You crave a different way of living, but you need it to feel grounded.

    No hype.
    No spiritual bypassing.
    No pretending you’re okay when you’re not.

  • Your inner world is rich — but often heavy.

    You’ve spent years working on your trauma, but joy still feels out of reach.

    You’ve done a lot of “processing.”

    Now you want to learn how to actually live.
    No pretending you’re okay when you’re not.

  • Not massive lifestyle overhauls.

    Not morning routine pressure.

    Just simple shifts that feel possible.

  • Someone with depth, rigor, and tenderness — not performance.

If any of this sounds like you, you’re in the right place.

This work is not for you if…

  • This isn’t crisis stabilization or trauma processing.

    Please contact 911 (US) or text 988 for support.

  • I won’t ask for details about your trauma or invite high-intensity sharing.

  • This work is slow, somatic, and paced with your nervous system — not a hype-based transformation program.

  • I won’t push you, perform for you, or overwhelm you into breakthroughs.

  • Play here is adult nervous-system repair, not childhood nostalgia or cosplay.

  • You’ll learn things — but the real change is in lived, embodied experience.

  • Even though there is a weekly group session for the hybrid classes, this is not group processing.

    It’s structured, grounded learning.

What You’ll
Leave With

Not a new personality. Not a forced positivity.
A deeper, steadier relationship with your own aliveness.

When you step into this work, you’re not signing up to become a different person.

I won’t promise overnight change. This is nervous-system work. It takes time.

You’re learning how to come home to yourself — in a way that feels safe, steady, and real.

Here’s a realistic expectation for what you’ll carry with you when the course ends:

A belief that your nervous system can tolerate (and trust) good things.

Maybe you’ll stop waiting for when life gets better to let the good in.
Maybe you’ll stop waiting for the other shoe to drop.
But no matter what, you will walk away from these courses knowing you are capable of staying open when something feels good, instead of always bracing or pushing it away.

A vocabulary for good feelings — not just difficult ones.

Most adults can name every flavor of pain,
but almost none of the flavors of joy.

You’ll relearn the language of delight, ease, warmth, playfulness, and awe so you can recognize them when they rise. Recognition is the first step to acceptance.

Small, repeatable practices that fit into real life.

Nothing that requires waking up at 5am
or reorganizing your entire world.

Just tiny, nervous-system-safe shifts that build real capacity over time.

A changing relationship with your inner world.

A little less self-judgment.
A little less tightening.
A little less second-guessing every good thing that comes your way.

In exchange, you’ll feel a little more gentleness.
A little more curiosity.
A little more room to breathe.

Permission to feel joy without guilt, fear, or contraction.

You don’t have to earn joy.
You don’t have to justify it.
You don’t have to perform for it.

You get to let it meet you — exactly as you are.

A steadier sense of self.

Not a perfect self.
Not a constantly happy self.
Just a self that feels a little safer being present, a little more rooted, and a little more open to the goodness already happening in your own life.

And maybe most importantly:

You’ll leave remembering that your aliveness was never gone —
just buried under years of bracing.

This work is about uncovering it, gently, and learning how to hold it with both hands.

Ready to

Get Started?

If something in you feels ready — even a little — I’d love to walk with you.

Choose the course that fits where your nervous system is today, not who you think you “should” be.

No pressure. No rush.

Just an open door when you’re ready.

Explore Joy Curious (4 Weeks)
Explore Joy Trusting (8 Weeks)