How I Rewired My Brain for Joy: A Personal Story of Healing, Somatic Tools and Love

Your brain is always changing — it’s called neuroplasticity. 🧠✨

Over the years, I’ve learned something powerful:

Happiness isn’t luck — it’s a habit.

It’s not something you're born with or without.

It’s a personal choice, but one that takes awareness, self-work and consistency.

And sometimes… we need help along the way.

That’s why I now do the work I do — as a wellness coach who integrates somatic yoga, breathwork, meditation and other body-based somatic tools.

These practices help you feel better, not just think better.

So many of us get stuck in our heads, overthinking, overworking, overwhelmed. My approach helps you calm your nervous system, reconnect with your body and rewire your brain for more joy, peace and purpose.

Because yes, you can train your brain to seek happiness.

Today, my brain is wired that way.

But that wasn’t always the case...

In stillness, my brain rewires. That’s the quiet power of neuroplasticity

A Turning Point in Tough Times

When my life turned upside down, when my heart shattered, I felt deep emotional and physical pain.

That’s when I realised I had two choices:

• To run from it, suppress it and let it define me.

• Or to face it, understand it, make peace with it and release it with love.

  
  

I’d faced trauma before, but this trauma truly cracked me open.

I can’t rely on others to make me happy.

More than that, I woke up to this truth:

I am not my thoughts.

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Reclaiming Control: One Thought at a Time

In the middle of that chaos, the only thing I could control was my inner world.

My thoughts were negative, loud and all-consuming, but I made a conscious decision:

I don’t want to be the bitter woman who believes life only ever happened to her.

I started small.

I started with gratitude, even when it felt forced.

Even on sleepless nights filled with tears, anxiety and panic attacks, I reached for what I now call:

Glimmers — tiny moments of peace, connection, or beauty.

These glimmers became my lifeline.

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Finding Glimmers: My Daily Habit for Joy

I lifted the corners of my lips.

I paid attention to my breath.

I intentionally moved my body.

Then I noticed the tiniest moments of joy:

• ☀️ Sunlight through the window

• 🌸 A flower blooming in my garden

• ☕ The smell of fresh coffee

• 💬 A message from a friend

• 😂 A laugh

• 🌲 The way light hit the trees

• 🐦 Birds chirping

• 🌅 The quiet beauty of the sunrise

  
  

I paused.

I noticed.

I lingered.

I became a happiness detective, curious, open and searching for what felt good, even for just a few seconds.

And that’s where everything began to shift.

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How Neuroplasticity Rewired My Brain

I started tracking these moments:

I wrote down my glimmers.

I took photos.

I reflected in my journal.

Over time, something powerful happened:

The more I looked for joy, the more I found.

This was neuroplasticity in action — the brain's ability to change and adapt based on focus, attention, and intention.

I trained my brain to scan for:

• ✨ Beauty

• 🤝 Connection

• 🌱 Hope

• 💛 Joy

  
  

  Even during the darkest seasons, I found glimmers of light.

To me, Winter 2025 felt sunny, not because it actually always was, but because I chose to see the good.

I got outside.

I walked.

I breathed.

I paid attention.

This Is Not Toxic Positivity

Let’s be very clear:

This is not about ignoring pain.

I faced it head-on.

I cried. I grieved. I felt it in my body. My emotions were real, and sometimes overwhelming.

But I also started asking deeper questions:

• What is the emotion here to teach me?

• What wisdom is hidden in this pain?

• How can I grow through this?

  
  

I learned something life-changing:

You can hold both — the hard and the beautiful.

I now give my emotions space, but I no longer let them define me.

I say to myself:

🗣️ “I am feeling sadness… but I am not sadness.”

🗣️ “I feel grief… but I am not grief.”

This isn’t about bypassing reality, it’s about balancing it.

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A New Way to Live: Choose Joy Daily

Instead of spiraling in what’s not working, I’ve trained my brain to notice what is.

This transformation didn’t happen overnight, it came from small, consistent practices:

• 🧘‍♀️ Pausing

• 🖊️ Noticing

• 📓 Journaling

• 🚶‍♀️ Moving my body

• 🧠 Writing down the good

  
  

Now, joy shows up more often. Not because life is perfect, but because I’m paying attention

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Final Thought: You Can Train Your Brain, Too

Sometimes joy doesn’t roar in, it arrives in soft glimmers. Moments that whisper:

“You’re still here. You’re okay. This still matters.”

And the best part?

You can train your brain to find them, too.

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💛 Coaching with Me: Mind, Body & Soul Support

✨ Ready to Rewire Your Brain — and Body — for Joy?

If you’re in a tough season, navigating grief, heartbreak, burnout, betrayal, or major life transitions, you don’t have to do it alone.

As a wellness coach, I guide clients through transformation using both mindset coaching and somatic healing tools:

• 🧠 Coaching & mindful reprogramming

• 🧘‍♀️ Somatic yoga & breathwork to release stuck emotion

• 🌀 Nervous system regulation through movement, stillness & breath

• 💫 Daily rituals for more calm, clarity, and connection

This isn’t just mindset coaching — it’s whole-self healing.

Healing begins with love.

Your brain can change.

Your body can heal.”