How Play and Joy help us heal
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They regulate your nervous system
Play, laughter, and creativity calm your brain's threat response and activate healing pathways.
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They interrupt the pain loop
Engaging fully in meaningful, enjoyable activities disrupts chronic pain cycles, thanks to neuroplasticity.
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They restore social connection
Isolation fuels suffering. Shared fun builds safety, joy, and a sense of belonging again.
At mindbodyJOY, we create safe, supportive spaces to help you rediscover what lights you up.
Our community is a soft landing place where joy becomes an essential part of your self-care. Here, healing doesn’t mean fixing—it means gently reconnecting with the playful, easeful parts of you.
This is a space to explore, at your own pace, how creativity and human connection can nourish your nervous system.
The full membership includes:
Your membership is an open invitation to show up exactly as you are right now, and includes:
A Truly Gentle Community
A vibrant, off-social space with no pressure to share, speak, or turn on your camera. Here, you’ll find mutual support without advice or symptom talk—just real humans sharing what’s hard and what’s helping.
Weekly Live Joy Circles
Small-group Zoom calls to reflect, reconnect with a more playful you, and choose one tiny, loving step toward joy.
Live Playdates for Lightness
When you have capacity, you can join Creativity Playground, Laugh & Let Go!, or Cozy Juicy Real for extra fun and human connection.
Weekly Joy Quests (Creative Prompts & Lighthearted Experiments)
Simple, low-energy practices you can try at your own pace to gently invite joy back in.
Grounding Mindbody Tools
A soft, non-clinical introduction to how joy, creativity, and nervous system care can support your wellbeing.
Our Private Joy Forum
A protected space for ongoing encouragement, celebrating small wins, and sharing what feels possible today.
Your Pace, Your Participation
No pressure, ever. Listen in, stay cozy, and participate in whatever way feels possible. Everything is here for you when you’re ready.
Opportunities to Grow With Us
If and when it feels right, you can help co-shape this space as a Joy Ambassador.
🔓 Start with a 2-Week Free Trial
Experience this gentle approach firsthand. No commitments, just an open invitation to see what joy can do.
Healing isn’t a one-time event—it’s a tender, ongoing rhythm.
Here, joy and connection become part of your prescription: a powerful, nourishing way to return home to yourself.
What some of our members are saying:
Allison A.
“It hasn't even been a month yet, but I can already feel the difference. I am so programmed to look to "fix" and "solve", but I am already starting to feel calmer, and feel that healing really can be gentle.”
Sophie I.
“Amazing Healthy & Energized guided visualization yesterday. Thank you very much for the wonderful experience.”
Karen A.
”I think I have always taken life very, very seriously. So I really like this concept of putting more attention to joy and noticing the little prompts that you're putting out. It's like, oh, I wouldn't have thought of that.”
Who mindbodyJOY is for
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People living with chronic pain or persistent symptoms
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Those who feel isolated, overextended, or creatively shut down
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High-functioning overachievers who’ve quietly burned out
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Caretakers of people living with chronic symptoms
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Anyone who spends most of their energy just managing symptoms and appointments and longs for a moment that’s not about illness
Reconnect with the parts of yourself that have fallen through the cracks.
For those feeling emotionally flat or disconnected, mindbodyJOY offers moments that reignite a quiet sense of curiosity.
mindbodyJOY is the antidote to healing burnout
Many members have spent years trying to “heal right” — approaching recovery with the same intensity, urgency, and perfectionism they bring to everything.
mindbodyJOY becomes the antidote: a space to loosen the grip, exhale, and explore without expecting a specific outcome.
Join us if you’re tired of ‘healing harder'.
Your weekly rhythm inside mindbodyJOY
Every week, we gather for a few core experiences, each designed to gently stretch your capacity for joy while honoring your need for safety:
🌱 Monday – Weekly Joy Quest
Start the week with one tiny, doable joy experiment you can carry into your real life. No pressure to “do it right”—just a gentle nudge toward more aliveness, at your own pace.
🌀 Reflection Circle – Tuesdays
A guided Future Self visualization and soft sharing space in a small group. This is where you reconnect with the version of you who’s already living with a little more ease, play, and possibility.
💫 Integration Circle – Thursdays
A gentle check-in on your Joy Quest and your week. We talk about what’s feeling hard, what’s working, and choose one tiny next step toward more joy—together.
Playdates: Creativity, Laughter & Connection
Alongside our Joy Circles and Joy Quests, we offer playful pop-up live sessions like:
🎨 The Creative Playground
A sanctuary for creative exploration where the process—not the product—is the point. This is a space to experiment and make some flawsome creations—no artistic talent or experience needed.
😂 Laugh & Let Go
Join us for Laughter Yoga & Yoga Nidra, both science-backed practices that coax the nervous system out of vigilance and into connection, followed by deep rest to integrate the shift.
🎲 The Cozy, Juicy, Real
Ready to connect in a way that's playful and meaningful? Join us for this award-winning game designed to spark genuine conversations and deeper human connection.
Watch Simone's conversation about the importance of Joy in Recovery on Dr. Tovah Golfine's "TMS RoundTable Chronic Pain Recovery"
Love It Here? Lead Here.
As mindbodyJOY grows, we’ll invite members to host their own groups—crafting circles, music shares, travel storytelling, anything you’re passionate about sharing. One of the most powerful ways to remind your nervous system of its strength is to offer that same safety to others.
A First-of-Its-Kind Healing Space
Be Part of the Beginning
For years, the chronic illness community has had two options: clinical support groups or solitary self-help.
mindbodyJOY is something entirely new—a trauma-informed playground where joy, creativity, and science converge to rewire your nervous system, one light moment at a time.
Right now, we’re small by design: intimate, safe, and co-created.
The first 100 members won’t just join—they’ll help shape what mindbodyJOY becomes. Claim your Founding Member spot and suggest new events, start traditions, and contribute your voice to a community that’s redefining healing on its own terms.
Start Free. Stay Curious. Rediscover Joy.
Join the mindbodyJOY community at our Founding Member pricing—special rates for the first members who help shape this space.
The monthly membership is your ongoing home for gentle, chronic joy practice.
We recommend giving yourself about three months for your nervous system to feel the impact of consistent play, creativity, and community.
If you prefer extra structure, you can also choose a one-time 3-month Chronic Joy Immersion that includes the full 12-Week Joy Reboot course.
Not sure yet? Start with a free 14-day trial on the monthly membership and see how it feels before you decide.
2-Week Free Trial
Let your nervous system gently sample what’s possible when joy, creativity, and connection are part of your care.
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Try all Weekly Joy Circles, Joy Quests, Playdates, and the community space
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Applies to the monthly membership plan
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Get a reminder before your trial ends
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Cancel anytime before the trial ends
Free
3-Month
Joy Reboot Bundle
$99*plus tax
one-time payment
Give yourself three months to reconnect with what makes life feel good again.
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Includes 3 months in the mindbodyJOY community (Weekly Joy Circles, Monday Joy Quests, and playful live Playdates)
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Includes the full 12-Week Therapeutic Joy Reboot Journey
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Trial not included with this offer
*Founding Member Rate
Regular rate: $149 plus tax/quarterly plan
$55 plus tax/monthly plan
Free 14-day trial applies to the monthly plan.
Once you decide to stay, you’ll have the option to switch to our quarterly plan and save.