Positive Neuroplasticity Training
THE 5-WEEK COURSE FOR NERVOUS SYSTEMS STUCK IN SURVIVAL MODE
Is your brain working overtime? Scanning. Bracing. Predicting the worst.
Nervous system safety matters. And it is a trainable skill.
That’s the gap GLIMMER fills.
In just 10 minutes a day, GLIMMER trains your brain to systematically find and integrate small moments of safety and steadiness. De-escalate your threat physiology, interrupt the hypervigilance loop, and build lasting regulation.
Evidence-based. Designed for limited energy.
Before your feet even hit the floor, are you already checking?
How bad are things going to be today? Symptoms. Appointments. Triggers... Your mind scans, braces, anticipates.
You've tried many things to calm your nervous system. But you're still stuck.
Not because you aren't trying hard enough. Because most approaches focus on managing symptoms, reducing threat responses, and building coping skills.
Nobody has taught you how to actively build safety.
That's why I created GLIMMER.
10 minutes a day. Designed for limited energy.
30-Day money-back guarantee.
Your nervous system learned to scan for danger through repetition. It can learn safety the same way.
Chronic symptoms. Fatigue. Stress. Anxiety. That constant sense of being on high alert. When any of those run for a while, your attention gets trained to scan, brace, and prepare for what might go wrong.
Over time, the alarm system can become easier and easier to activate. Small stressors start to feel bigger. Symptoms flare faster. It becomes harder to feel settled, even briefly. Everything feels like a crisis.
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.
Simply put, your brain has gotten really good at spotting problems while it filters out noticing good moments as irrelevant to your survival. It's not a character flaw. It's maladaptive neuroplasticity.
This hypervigilant loop is exhausting. And it can be retrained.
GLIMMER is a 5-week daily attention training program grounded in positive affect research, including findings from a Cornell University study on the role of daily positive emotion in reducing chronic pain and fatigue. It teaches your nervous system to build safety pathways—not just reduce threat response.
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.
In just 10 minutes a day, GLIMMER helps you spend less time checking, bracing, and worrying about what might happen next — and start building more safety, trust, and room for real life again.
GLIMMER helps rebuild trust in your body and your life by teaching your nervous system to notice safety again — gently, systematically, and in real life.
Inspired by the LARKSPUR research study, which showed that daily positive affect practice reduces pain and fatigue, GLIMMER combines cognitive retraining with somatic integration to create real neuroplastic change.
Whether you're already working with a therapist or coach, using any of the apps, applying a method like PRT or expressive writing, or figuring this out on your own, this is the piece that's usually missing.
No guesswork. No rushing between methods. Just a clear, step-by-step path toward safety. 10 minutes a day.
✨ Designed for people managing chronic symptoms, chronic stress, and nervous system dysregulation.
You may have already tried many different things to regulate your nervous system
Journaling, meditation, breathwork, or simply trying to tell your brain that you’re safe.
And still, it keeps scanning for danger.
That doesn’t mean your brain is broken. It means your nervous system needs more evidence of safety — repeated, real-life evidence it can actually register.
The goal isn’t to fight your brilliant brain. It’s to give it a more complete picture. More than problems. More than symptoms. More than what might go wrong.
GLIMMER is a 10-minute-a-day attention training that helps you reconnect with feelings of safety and joy.
It works by guiding your attention to notice and register safety signals again that your brain has been filtering out.
Over five weeks, you systematically learn to build foundational, neuropositive skills. Each one teaches your nervous system to notice safety signals alongside the threat signals it has learned to prioritize.
How GLIMMER helps your brain learn safety again
When you’ve lived with chronic pain, stress, symptoms, or other ongoing life stressors, your brain can start narrowing its attention around one question:
What problem is next?
Over time, it gets very good at looking for threat. It checks, predicts, monitors, and prepares, all in an effort to keep you safe.
But when your brain is focused on what might go wrong, other information can get filtered out.
✨ The warmth of sunlight on your skin.
✨ The comfort of a warm drink.
✨ A small moment when your body has a little more capacity than expected.
Those moments are probably happening. Your brain is just not treating them as important.
That’s where the GLIMMER training begins.
Over five weeks, you’ll practice widening your lens, so your brain stops focusing only on what is hard, threatening, or uncertain, and starts noticing what is also safe, steady, relieving, supportive, or okay enough right now.
Those moments can be tiny and easy to miss. GLIMMER teaches you to notice, savor, and let them truly be felt in your body.
That’s how your nervous system begins to learn something new: Safety is something I can build.
What GLIMMER looks like in real life
GLIMMER is designed to fit into a life where energy or time may be limited, and your nervous system may already feel overloaded. There are no long sessions, complicated protocols, or extra things to track all day.
Most nervous system tools focus on reducing stress or managing symptoms. GLIMMER focuses on systematically registering safety signals.
Your brain already knows how to detect danger. What it may not have practiced enough is noticing relief, support, connection, ease, normalcy, or small moments that are actually okay alongside what’s hard.
GLIMMER trains that missing skill through a simple daily rhythm:
☀️ Every morning, you receive one short prompt — that's your lens for the day. As you move through normal life, you practice noticing what that prompt points you toward. No extra time needed, just gentle awareness.
🌛 Each evening, you spend 10 minutes helping the day’s moments register with a 7-minute guided journaling practice that strengthens your new neural pathways, followed by a 3-minute somatic audio to help safety signals fully land in your body.
That’s it. An extremely simple, step-by-step practice that trains your nervous system toward safety.
Once you start GLIMMER, something shifts. Not because you're trying harder — but because, maybe for the first time, you're training in the right direction.
„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
5 Weeks of GLIMMER
Over five weeks, you'll practice one neuropositive skill at a time. Each skill gives your brain a different way to notice safety, steadiness, connection, and what’s still possible alongside what’s hard.
✨ Week 1 — Noticing & Savoring
You begin by catching small moments that feel okay, relieving, pleasant, neutral, or steady — and staying with them long enough for your nervous system to register them.
Goal: You're training your nervous system to use tiny positive (or neutral) moments to regulate.
✨ Week 2 — Strengths & Progress
When you've been stuck for a long time, it's easy to lose sight of what you can do. This week, you rediscover and reconnect with strengths you already have (but may have forgotten), and you'll use them to practice noticing small wins and moments of capacity throughout your day.
Goal: Your brain moves past thoughts of "I'm stuck” or “I can’t” to "I can handle this" or "I just handled that".
✨ Week 3 — Mindfulness
You learn to notice what’s happening right now, how to place your attention somewhere on purpose, and how to gently redirect it when it wanders — without immediately tightening into urgency, evaluation, or bracing.
Goal: You practice coming back to the present moment when your mind starts scanning ahead, catastrophizing, spiraling, or trying to solve everything at once.
✨ Week 4 — Perspective & Gratitude
This week teaches you to shift your perspective on difficult moments (reappraisal or reframing) and to notice what's supporting you, even when things feel hard (gratitude).
Goal: You update rigid interpretations and threat meaning. You practice holding more than one thing at a time: what’s hard AND what’s also supportive, helpful, meaningful, or still here.
✨ Week 5 — Acts of Kindness
Connection is one of the most powerful safety signals your nervous system knows. This week, you practice small, genuinely doable acts of kindness — and notice how turning attention outward shifts something inward.
Goal: You're teaching your nervous system relational safety signals. Kindness creates positive moments organically and fosters a sense of warmth, contribution, and connection.
By the end of five weeks, you’ve practiced the GLIMMER pattern repeatedly: widening your lens and noticing important safety signals your brain may have been filtering out.
This gives your brain a more realistic (unbiased) set of data, which can lead to less hypervigilance and catastrophizing and to better nervous system regulation.
Here's what's included in GLIMMER:
In just 10 minutes a day, GLIMMER teaches you how to spend less time checking, bracing, and worrying about what might happen next — and start building more safety, trust, and room for real life again.
Easy App Access
All lessons, prompts, audios, and check-ins are all available in one simple course app, on your phone or computer.
5 Weekly Video Lessons
The neuroscience behind each skill — why it works, what it trains, and how to apply it. Clear, accessible, no jargon.
✅ Included
35 Morning Prompts
One prompt per day — your lens for the day. Read it in the morning, carry it with you, and let it guide what you notice as you move through your life. No extra time needed. Just awareness.
✅ Included
Evening Journaling Prompts
Seven minutes each evening to reflect on what you noticed during the day. This is where the neural pathway gets strengthened — where experience becomes learning.
✅ Included
5 Weekly Somatic Integration Audios
Three minutes each. Guided nervous system settling to help what you're learning land in your body — not just your head.
✅ Included
Daily & Weekly
Tracking Options
Simple one-minute ratings to track what's shifting. Because noticing progress is part of building safety too.
✅ Included
Guided Somatic
Resource Library
Short calming clips for nervous system support — available whenever you need them. Breathwork, Body Scans, Somatic Tracking, and Loving Kindness Meditation.
✅ Included
BONUS: 5 beautiful Phone Wallpapers
One companion wallpaper for each week as a small visual reminder of each week's skill — something to carry with you throughout the day. Set it as your lock screen at the start of each week and let it gently bring your attention to what you're practicing every time you pick up your phone.
Five Weeks. Five Lessons. Invaluable Skills learned.
💛 How to interrupt the hypervigilance loop, without fighting it
💛 How to train your attention to notice safety signals your brain is currently filtering out
💛 How to build a felt sense of safety that doesn't depend on symptoms being gone
💛 How to keep practicing on the hard days, when everything in you wants to scan and brace
💛 How to make adaptive neuroplasticity work for you, through microdoses, not intensity
GLIMMER offers a step-by-step process toward more nervous system safety.
Systematic. Evidence-based. Ten minutes a day — even on the hard days.
GLIMMER works without:
❌ Long sessions that drain the energy you don't have
❌ Pushing through on your worst days
❌ Adding pressure to an overwhelmed system
❌ Forcing positivity when nothing feels positive
❌ Replacing therapy or recovery work you're already doing
GLIMMER is designed to work with your limited energy, not against it. Because noticing what's good, safe, and present isn't just a feel-good exercise. It's a foundational nervous system skill that supports any other work you're doing.
Ten minutes. Gentle. Cumulative. Designed to fit into a life that's already hard enough.
Try it risk-free.
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
I know how much energy it takes to try something new when you've already tried so much. I don't want that to be a barrier.
Here's how it works: enroll in GLIMMER, go through the practices, and if, after 30 days, you don't feel it was worth your investment, email me. I'll refund every cent. You don’t even need to explain why.
30-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked.
Who is GLIMMER for?
This is for you if...
✅ You understand your stress level and symptoms are influenced by your nervous system state, and you're ready to actively retrain it
✅ You're stuck in threat-scanning mode and want a structured, daily way out
✅ You're already doing other recovery work, but feel like something is missing
✅ You want something evidence-based that actually fits into a life with limited energy
✅ You're ready to stop waiting until you feel better — and start building the conditions for it
For nervous systems stuck in threat mode
GLIMMER teaches nervous system skills that can support people living with conditions where the brain has learned to stay stuck in threat mode. This includes:
✔ CHRONIC PAIN: Fibromyalgia, back pain, headaches, migraines, sciatica, joint pain, nerve pain
✔ CHRONIC FATIGUE & LONG COVID CFS/ME, POST-VIRAL SYNDROMES: for when exhaustion doesn't resolve with rest
✔ BURNOUT & CHRONIC STRESS: When your nervous system has been running on empty for so long, it's forgotten how to feel safe
✔ NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSREGULATION: POTS, MCAS, anxiety, hypervigilance, stress-related symptoms
✔ NEUROPLASTIC & MINDBODY CONDITIONS: Any condition where you already understand the brain-body connection and are ready to train it in a new direction
A note: GLIMMER is an educational program, not a medical treatment. It is not a substitute for medical care, therapy, or working with a qualified practitioner. If you are unsure whether GLIMMER is appropriate for your situation, please consult your healthcare provider first.
Healing happens when the nervous system feels safe.
Sophie I.
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"The simple, steady tasks are a wonderful guide throughout the weeks. I've made a lot of progress with symptoms and this feels like fine-tuning in order to stay on track. I'm really thankful."
K. T.
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"While on Week 2, I found myself having some alone time. My nervous system doesn't like stillness and usually responds with anxiety. This time, I asked myself which strength I could use here. I chose 'Love of Learning' and picked a book from my shelf that I had wanted to read forever. It felt empowering and satisfying. And no anxiety."
Andrea S.
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"This program has been helping me make connections between the positive moments I experience and a shift in my symptoms.
I noticed a real shift after an experience which was very positive — I feel so much better today and just did an hour workout."
Created by Simone Holderbach, Founder of The MindBody Approach and mindbodyJOY
Hi, I’m Simone, a Neuroplasticity and Nervous System Coach and founder of The MindBody Approach and mindbodyJOY.
For the past 15 years, I’ve helped people understand how the brain and nervous system can contribute to chronic symptoms, and how gentle, consistent retraining can help these patterns shift.
I’ve trained with leaders in pain neuroscience and mindbody medicine, including Dr. Howard Schubiner and Prof. Lorimer Moseley. This work is personal for me too, as the mom of two boys who have lived with chronic symptoms for years.
What I kept seeing — in my clinic, in research, and at home — was the same exhausting pattern: thoughtful, capable people stuck in a loop of symptom-scanning and nervous system dysregulation.
I knew I wanted to create a program to help people systematically retrain their nervous system for more safety.
That's how GLIMMER was born.
It is a gentle, 10-minute-a-day practice and supports whatever healing work you’re already doing.
I’m really proud of this course, and if this page speaks to you, I hope you’ll give it a try.
Warmly,
Simone
You may know Simone from...
mindbodyJOY · The MindBody Approach · The 2026 Pain Summit
Simone Holderbach is a Neuroplastic Symptom Recovery Coach and mindbody thought leader with 15 years of clinical experience — including as a featured speaker on chronic neuroplastic pain at the 2026 Pain Summit by the American Posture Institute.
Some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
Will GLIMMER cure my symptoms?
GLIMMER doesn't promise a cure, and I'd be skeptical of anything that does. What GLIMMER teaches are evidence-based positive affect skills that support nervous system regulation and accelerate the healing work you're already doing. Some people notice significant symptom shifts. Others notice increased well-being and capacity even before symptoms fully resolve. What GLIMMER promises is a structured, gentle, daily practice: the ideal foundation for
Isn't this just toxic positivity?
No. Toxic positivity says, "ignore the bad, just think positive." That's denial, and it doesn't work. Neuropositive training says your brain is already scanning for threat 24/7. Let's also train it to notice the safety signals that are already there but being filtered out. You're not ignoring your symptoms. You're giving your nervous system more complete information.
Is this the same as PRT/DNRS/GUPTA/other brain retraining programs?
No, and it's not meant to replace them. Most programs focus primarily on reducing threat responses. GLIMMER teaches you to actively build safety alongside that work. They address two complementary sides of the same equation. While PRT, for example, teaches you to reappraise symptoms as safe during symptom moments, GLIMMER trains your brain to notice and amplify safety signals throughout your day, building the baseline nervous system capacity that makes all neuroplastic work easier. You can, and many people do, use GLIMMER alongside whatever else you're doing.
What if I'm already working with a practitioner?
Perfect. GLIMMER is designed to complement other recovery approaches. It adds the daily safety-building layer that most therapies and programs don't include systematically. It fills that gap without conflicting with anything else you're doing.
Do I have to finish the course in 5 weeks?
Not at all. The 5-week structure is a guide, not a deadline. You can take as much time as you need, and all content stays accessible after the program ends. That said, daily or very regular practice is encouraged. Neuroplastic change happens through repetition, and consistency over time is what builds new brain pathways. Even on hard days, a few minutes of practice count.
What if I can't commit to all 5 weeks?
The daily practice is 10 minutes, designed to be genuinely doable even on hard days. If you miss a day, simply pick up where you left off with the next practice. The content stays accessible, and you can take longer than 5 weeks if you need to. Consistency matters more than perfection.
What if I don't have 10 minutes a day?
If you have time to check your symptoms, scroll forums, or lie awake worrying, your brain already has the energy. GLIMMER simply redirects those exact 10 minutes away from the threat loop and toward a safety signal. GLIMMER also offers modifications for low-capacity days.
When will I get access?
Immediately after purchase, you'll receive a welcome email with setup instructions for the course platform. Access is typically available within minutes. If you haven't received your email within 30 minutes, please check your spam folder or contact support@mindbodyjoy.org.
What happens when I'm done with GLIMMER?
First, congratulations. The skills you've built don't disappear when the 5 weeks end. We recommend continuing to practice them. They compound over time. You can also repeat the full sequence if you found the daily structure helpful. And if you want ongoing community and support, mindbodyJOY is there for exactly that.