RECLAIM THE THAT YOU LEARNED TO SHRINK
joy
Joy isn’t always easy, especially when your body has learned to protect you by staying guarded, busy, or braced for what might go wrong.
If joy feels fleeting, fragile, or “too much,” there’s a reason. Joy requires safety… and many of us never had that modeled.
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When good moments were unpredictable or followed by disappointment, your system learned to tighten instead of open.
That doesn’t mean you’re broken — it means you adapted. And the good news is, you have power to adapt again to a heart and body that openly receive and hold joy, without fear of losing it.
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How? By gently re-teaching your system that joy is safe.
That's exactly what BE WITH Joy was created for— to serve as a gentle guided experience to help you feel, hold, and expand joy in a full, safe way.
YOU DESERVE TO FULLY FEEL AND BE WITH
joy.
If you're ready to soften your defenses, build internal safety, and let more joy into your life, you're in the right place.
This is especially for you if:
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Joy feels hard to access or doesn’t last long.
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You often feel tense, guarded, or on alert.
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You want to feel more ease and presence in daily life.
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You want to experience joy without shutting down.
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You crave simple, doable tools to help you soften, breathe, and receive.
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You’re ready to feel safer inside your own body.
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BE WITH Joy is for anyone who wants to feel joy in the fullest.
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YOUR TO EXPAND JOY:
tools
BE WITH Joy is your gentle guide to help you reclaim joy as something that belongs to you — something safe, nourishing, and fully yours to feel. Inside, you'll find:
Gentle Joy Meditation
A short, guided audio experience that helps you reconnect with joy in a safe, supported way. This downloadable meditation helps you build the capacity to feel more joy by recalling a joyful memory and slowly letting your body open to it — without pressure and without abandoning yourself if another emotion arises.
Journal Prompts
Thoughtful prompts designed to help you understand your relationship with joy — what makes it feel easy, what makes it feel scary, and what stories or protections might get in the way. These reflections deepen your awareness and gently expand your ability to stay present with joy instead of shrinking away from it.
Somatic Exercises
These simple body-based practices — like grounding, gentle movement, or orienting — teach your nervous system that it doesn’t have to brace for impact when good things happen. They help you create more internal space, soften protective patterns, and let joy linger a little longer in your body.
BE WITH
series
BE WITH Joy is a part of the BE WITH Series — a collection of emotion-based guides created to help you build internal safety, emotional resilience, and a deeper connection with yourself.
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The Be With Series was created to help you develop one of the most important emotional skills you can have: the ability to stay present with what you feel instead of shutting down, spiraling, or abandoning yourself.
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Most of us were never taught how to be with our emotions. We learned to hide, numb, or power through. But ignoring emotions doesn’t make them disappear — it just makes them louder in other ways: anxiety, reactivity, relationship conflict, burnout, or feeling disconnected from yourself.
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“Being with” your emotions is how you begin to feel safe inside your own body. It’s how you build self-trust, emotional regulation, and the capacity to feel more of the good moments without fear that they’ll slip away.
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When you can be with yourself — with your fear, your loneliness, your sadness, your joy — you stop depending on other people to rescue or sustain you emotionally. You become steadier, calmer, more grounded, and more connected to who you are.
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This Joy guide is one of the first pieces of that journey.