GLIMMER
The 5-week program that trains your nervous system from threat-scanning to safety-noticing.
Does this sound familiar?
Before your feet even hit the floor, you're already checking. How bad is it today? Your mind scans, braces, anticipates. You've tried many things. You're still stuck.
Not because you aren't trying hard enough. Because most approaches focus on reducing threat, and nobody has taught you how to actively build safety.
That's the gap GLIMMER fills.
Your nervous system learned to scan for danger through repetition. It can learn something new the same way.
Research shows that 39% of people with chronic pain or persistent symptoms experience catastrophizing — a pattern where the nervous system learns to constantly amplify threat signals. It's not a character flaw. It's maladaptive neuroplasticity.
And it can be retrained.
GLIMMER is a 5-week daily attention training program grounded in positive affect research, including findings from a Stanford University study on the role of daily positive emotion in reducing chronic pain and fatigue. Over five weeks, you systematically build 8 evidence-based neuropositive skills that teach your nervous system to notice safety signals alongside the threat signals it has learned to prioritize.
„GLIMMER is a wonderful safety training and integration course, highly professional in content & setup, very suitable to follow even with a busy schedule. I loved the soft guidance and tiny reminders on a daily basis for recovery integration - just how the nervous system likes it!“
Sophie, GLIMMER participant
How it works
Simple. Gentle. Designed for limited energy.
One morning prompt — your lens for the day. No extra time required, just a direction for your attention.
In the evening, a 10-minute practice: 7 minutes of reflection journaling to strengthen the neural pathway, followed by a 3-minute somatic audio to help what you noticed land in your body.
That's it. Small inputs, repeated consistently. That's how the nervous system learns.
Works alongside whatever you're already doing.
GLIMMER is designed to complement and deepen any nervous system work you're already doing. Whether you're working with a therapist, coach, or recovery program, GLIMMER adds the daily practice layer that most approaches don't include.
Designed for low and variable energy. Ten minutes a day. No pushing through. No performing wellness. Just one small daily practice, even on the hard days.
"This program has been helping me make connections between the positive moments I experience and a shift in my symptoms. I feel so much better today and just did a one-hour workout."
Alex, GLIMMER participant
GLIMMER teaches the skills.
mindbodyJOY is where you keep practicing them.
Many people begin with GLIMMER to build the foundation, then continue and expand that practice inside mindbodyJOY — where the same skills deepen through daily prompts, shared moments, and weekly live community circles.
30-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked.
A note from the founder
In my work as a chronic symptom recovery coach, I’ve noticed a recurring theme: many clients feel profoundly alone.
They’ve shared with me that, over time, they’ve lost touch with joy, creativity, and social connection. And yet, once systematically reintroduced, reclaiming those elements always significantly accelerated their recovery and improved their mental health.
There are many pathways to healing—medical, alternative, mindbody—but I’ve noticed there’s nothing out there that focuses specifically on joy, creativity, and social reconnection as active and essential ingredients of healing. So I’m building it.
mindbodyJOY isn’t a treatment. It’s a space to gently remember what might have fallen through the cracks while trying to heal—a place where safety exists in the good company of curiosity, playfulness, and art.
This is a new idea. A growing one. And I’d be honored for you to help shape what it becomes.
Simone Holderbach
Chronic Symptom Recovery Coach & Founder of mindbodyJOY
GLIMMER teaches the skills. mindbodyJOY is where you keep practicing them.
Many people begin with GLIMMER to build the foundation, then continue and expand that practice inside mindbodyJOY — where the same skills deepen through daily prompts, shared moments, and weekly live community circles.
30-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked.