No Toxic Positivity or "Choose Happy"

This course works with your nervous system, not against it, so relief comes from safety and understanding, not forcing your thoughts to be different or pushing other emotions aside.

Play as Regulation (Not Performance)

You’ll learn how to use curiosity and play to give your mind somewhere gentle to go without turning joy into another thing to do or another thing to perfect. You'll practice letting play be the point.

Designed for Real, Tired Minds

Short lessons. Optional practices. No pressure to journal daily, meditate perfectly, or overhaul your life. Joy Curious is meant to help you notice the good around you, not create more work. 

About the course

Joy Curious is a 4‑week, trauma‑informed course for people who are tired of living only inside their minds. This course is for the ones replaying the past, forecasting the future, and treating the present moment like something to get through rather than something to inhabit. Joy Curious is not about forcing positivity, fixing your mindset, or trying to feel joyful all the time. It’s about learning how to meet your inner world differently. If your mind feels loud, restless, anxious, or endlessly busy, Joy Curious helps you build a new relationship with it. One that includes curiosity instead of control, presence instead of pressure, and moments of genuine delight without needing to earn them. Inside Joy Curious, you’ll learn how to notice when you’ve left the present moment, understand why your nervous system does that, and gently guide yourself back - not through discipline or self‑improvement, but through play, sensation, and permission. By the end of this course, the present moment won’t feel slow, boring, or unsafe. It will feel available. Not perfect. Not euphoric. Just here and that's enough.

This Course Uses Adaptive Pricing

Joy Curious 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: STANDARD  $197 (the posted price) - 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 2: SUPPORTED  $97 (use the drop-down to choose this option) - 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. - Limited spots available for this tier. TIER 3: SUSTAINER  (use the drop-down to choose this option) - 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 the reduced-rate Supported-tier spots and also allows me to offer this work at no-cost to those in partnering women’s shelters. - This tier is generosity in action; a quiet act of community care.

What to Expect  (Time Commitment)

This is a low‑pressure, spacious course.  It should take no more than two hours per week and includes the following: A live session via Zoom (60 minutes/weekly) Two 10–15 minute video lessons exploring the science of how joy restores the mind and body Guided embodiment & reflection practices Optional creative invitations to nurture curiosity and play

Course Dates

Course Begins: January 12th, 2026 Live virtual sessions are held via Zoom on January 15th January 22nd January 29th February 5th 4:00-5:00pm (U.S. Pacific Time Zone)

Hi, I'm Megan

I’m a trauma‑informed yoga teacher, writer, and guide for people learning how to live beyond survival mode. For most of my life, I lived inside my mind; hyper‑aware, anxious, self‑monitoring, and always tense for what might go wrong. I wasn’t afraid of joy because I didn’t want it. I was afraid because my nervous system didn’t know how to hold it. I learned early that joy wouldn't keep me safe, so my mind filtered it out so I could look for potential danger.  I knew there had to be more to life after trauma. That survival mode wasn't the end. So I spent the last five years working on building my capacity for the good.  Now, I seek out beauty. Appreciate the magic of the unknown. Delight in curiosity and play for no reason. All of this has helped me to inhabit my life fully, not just guard it from a distance. My work is rooted in lived experience, neuroscience, somatic practice, and a deep respect for sensitive systems. I don’t teach from a pedestal. The work in this course is the same work I still do every single day. I walk with you, showing you how to feel safer inside your own aliveness, one small moment at a time.

What You'll Learn

Over four weeks, we’ll explore: - Why your mind does what it does Understand the nervous system patterns behind overthinking, anxiety, and mental looping without pathologizing yourself. - How to notice when you’ve left the present moment And how to return gently, without force or shame. - How to use play as regulation Not play as performance, but play as a way to give your mind somewhere safe to go when things get too loud. - How to let good moments count So they don’t disappear before you even realize they happened. - How to experience delight without obligation No pressure to turn joy into productivity, meaning, or growth.

What You'll Receive

Lifetime access to all course materials Four weeks of guided video lessons (two videos per week) Downloadable practices and reflections Nervous‑system‑friendly tools you can return to anytime Language you can borrow when your mind gets loud A felt sense of ease you don’t have to chase

Course Curriculum

8 Chapters · 30 Lessons

  1. 1

    Start Here

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      Welcome to Joy Curious

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    Week One: Remembering What We Forgot

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      Lesson 1.1 — The Quiet Exit of Joy

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      Lesson 1.2 — Numbness as Safety

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      Integration Practice #1 - Orientation to What's Already Here

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      Integration Practice #2 - Learning the Shape of Safety

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      Integration Practice #3 - 30-Second Body Check-Ins

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      Body Check-In Tracker

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    Week Two: Permission to Feel Good

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      Lesson 2.1 — The Myths That Cage Joy

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      Lesson 2.2 — The Science of Allowing

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      Integration Practice #4 - The Permission Ritual

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      Integration Practice #5 - Letting Ease Land

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      Integration Practice #6 - Unlearning Myths About Joy

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    Week Three: The Language of Joy

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      Lesson 3.1 — Joy as Sensation, Not Concept

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      Lesson 3.2 — The Body as a Translator

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      Integration Practice #7 - Sensory Mapping

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      Integration Practice #8 - Joy in the Wild

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      Integration Practice #9 - Sharpening Presence

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      Integration Practice #10 - Experiential Movement

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    Week Four: Cultivating the Pulse of Joy

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      Lesson 4.1 — Building Capacity for Goodness

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      Lesson 4.2 — Sustaining Joy Beyond the Course

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      Integration Practice #11 - Mini-Play Experiment

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      Integration Practice #12 - Embodied Gratitude

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      Integration Practice #13 - If Joy had a Shape Today

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      Integration Practice #14 - Your Joy Practice Plan

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      Closing Ritual - Carrying the Thread

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      Closing Ritual (Downloadable PDF)

  6. 6

    Bonus Materials

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      Joy Menus

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    Before You Go...

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      Thank You

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    Legal

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      Legal (Updated December 2025)

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      Privacy Policy (Updated December 2025)

How this Course is Different

Joy Curious is NOT: - A mindset course - A positivity program - A productivity tool - A performance‑based version of healing It is: - Grounded - Trauma‑informed - Gentle - Playful - Deeply respectful of where you are

A Final Note

You didn’t survive hell just to stay numb to the good. Joy Curious isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about remembering there is good happening all around you that's just waiting for you to notice it.

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