Held
A space to hear yourself.
Tell me your story.
No need to write it. Just tell me.
Tell me about the winding, spiraling road that got you here. Tell me how you came to this inflection point. Or this place of dissolution. Or of pain. Or wondering.
Let’s wander back through your life.
Not to solve anything, but maybe to find some patterns. To release what you’ve been carrying for too long. To recognize the voices that you thought were yours that actually aren’t. To shed some light on the present. To see a new way forward. And who knows what else
Take some space to really hear yourself. Whatever you’re ready to tell, I’m listening.
“Working with Joy is like having a friend who goes on one of those hikes where you taste the fresh fruit that's fallen onto the ground, and feel brightened up by the mist of the waterfall, and see and imagine things that you don't quite have words for.”
Skip the page & go straight to the essence.
There is incredible healing power in taking a walk through our life stories, finding out what’s true, discarding what isn’t needed, and making connections we didn’t see at the time.
We do this in our writing groups all the time. But the real power of the process isn’t the writing—it’s being lovingly witnessed as we dig deep express what we know.
Still, for many, writing can feel performative. Even if it’s just for us, there’s an element to it that doesn’t allow us to go quite as deep as we need to.
In this program, we skip the page and go straight to the healing essence of this work.
“You have supported me so much, in self-resourcing and settling in, in ways that I feel will be lasting and generative. I feel as though you were tracking my development in a caring and personalized way. Increasingly, I find this to be rare.”
How does this work?
We’ll get together for an hour every week or two.
You’ll start where you start: maybe with something that happened last week, or when you were five. You don’t have to know—we’ll see what emerges, and follow the path from there.
I’ll ask some guiding questions, point out connections. Celebrate what is beautiful. Be with you in what is painful.
I’ll add a little healing juju to the space and track what your energy is doing—where did you brighten, tighten, where were you holding, whose voice was speaking in a given moment…
After each session I’ll send you a written (by me, not a robot) summary of what we noticed. A little beauty for you to keep. A stack of postcards to look back on after we’re done.
Open up some breathing space in yourself.
Shine a light on what might be next.
I’ll be right there with you.
6 sessions. $1,500.
Six hour-long sessions over Zoom with human-written records of what you discovered.