Joy is your fuel for a meaningful life.
Life is hard — especially if you care deeply about doing what’s right and live according to your values.
We can’t wish away the hard parts, and we don’t need to pretend that meaning makes them lighter.
Instead, let’s fuel ourselves so that the hard parts of the life we care about, become doable.
And the secret ingredient is joy – spontaneous, ordinary, incandescent joy.
INCANDESCENT JOY CHALLENGE
You always try to do the ‘right’ thing.
You live by your values; you show up with your whole heart.
You hold high standards—for yourself, your relationships, your work.
You believe that doing meaningful work ‘should be’ satisfying. That showing up with integrity ‘should feel’ fulfilling. But the satisfaction is fleeting, and the momentary fulfillment doesn’t stop you from feeling depleted.
Here’s the truth : Integrity is essential. Alignment matters. But they are NOT ENOUGH.
Because… you need fuel to do the work you do. And no one ever told you that fuel is joy.
This isn’t about chasing happiness. It isn’t about pretending you’re fine, or plastering over exhaustion with toxic positivity.
It’s not bypassing difficult emotions, chanting affirmations, or forcing ‘good vibes’ when you’re carrying a heavy burden.
It is about tending to your own joy with a fierce aliveness so that it can feed you and fuel you, and light you up – inside out
Would you like to experience this sort of joy – visceral, grounded, gritty joy?
I will teach you to cultivate an inner garden where joy can alight.
WHAT’S INSIDE THE 5 DAY FREE INCADESCENT JOY CHALLENGE:
Each day, you’ll receive an email reminder with:
- a 20–30 minute video lesson on the neuroscience behind that day’s theme. Because you’re the kind of person who needs to know the WHY behind anything you do (Ask me how I know!) and without a solid reason, you’re not going to bother doing the action steps that are the crux in using joy as your fuel.
- a short 10-minute mindfulness practice to help you embody the teaching. Mindfulness is the bridge between the theory of joy, and actually applying it to your life.
- a simple experiential exercise woven into your every day life. This is where joy becomes do-able! I’ve made each exercise so practical, so simple that it fits right into your life right now
This challenge helps you integrate joy immediately — no matter how hectic or heavy your days are — so joy becomes the fuel for what matters most.
DAY #1 : NOTICING WHAT’S AROUND
Your body is a joy detection tool. We start by waking up your senses so you can actually catch the tiny, ordinary sparks of joy your tired brain has been filtering out.
This is your FIRST refueling point.
DAY #2 : NOTICING WHAT’S WITHIN
Discover your own inner signature of joy, and tap into the aliveness that lives under your exhaustion.
This is where joy shifts from ‘outside-in’ to ‘inside-out,’ from nourishment to ignition.
DAY #3 : LOCKING IN THE GOOD
Teach your nervous system to hold a good moment long enough for it to change you. Instead of scanning for what can go wrong, you’ll learn to marinate in joy so it becomes a resource you draw on, not a moment you chase.
DAY #4 : RE-PARENT YOURSELF THROUGH JOY
Your inner child didn’t feel safe to do the things your adult self NEEDS to do. Meet your past self with tenderness, and dissolve the shame and smallness you learned to carry.
DAY #5 : JOY MOVING THROUGH YOU
This is where Joy stops being a feeling and becomes a force—something that moves you, moves through you, and moves your work forward.
Finish all 5 days, & receive two additional teachings – 1. Put Joy First and 2. Joy in Difficult Relationships. Participate in mentorship weeks where you can revisit the challenge in community, and go deeper with the concepts.
At the end of this 5 day Incandescent joy challenge,
You’ll know exactly how to turn towards joy in difficult times, and turn it into fuel that helps you move through them.
Spontaneous joy… The kind that stops you in your tracks in the middle of a messy day, moving you to tears because you heard the cuckoo’s calling and it made the mess seem more manageable?
Ordinary joy… made up of afternoon sunlight filtering through your window, the fragrance of coffee, the laughter of those you love?
Incandescent joy… the kind that lights up from inside out (you can FEEL it on your face) and warms you up and those around you, no matter how harsh and cold the world is?
Because these aren’t fleeting moments… they are HOW you weave joy into the very fabric of your life.
If hope is a feathered creature with wings, joy is a feral creature with claws.
Contrary to popular belief, joy is not fragile, not weak. It is not something that can be snatched away from us. Because joy is not achievement, or fortune or possession or even happiness.
Joy is a child asleep on your lap, a collision with a butterfly, the smell of bread baking, the sizzle of spices in your grandmother’s kitchen, the chirping of birds, a baby’s laughter, the rainbow of a petroleum puddle on the floor of your garage.
When joy lives in so many small, ordinary things, it grows larger—feral, clawed, and wild. Strong enough to tear through what’s trite, what’s hollow, what’s vile—and make room for what’s real, good, and true.
HI I’M NIMISHA…
…and I had no idea what joy was before I became a mother.
But the combination of motherhood and mindfulness wove a magical spell that made joy – spontaneous, ordinary, incandescent joy – a part of my daily life…
Now, I am no Pollyanna (though I LOVED the book!). I KNOW that the only way to get through something difficult is to face it and move through it – so you won’t find any emotional bypassing or positive psychology in my work.
I’m also a surgeon, a mindfulness teacher, an artist and writer – and joy fuels and is fueled by each of these areas of my life. But, as I said, it wasn’t always so…
In this Incandescent Joy Challenge I want to share with you all of my secrets to a joyful life using tried and tested mindfulness tools that do not insist you mediate and can fit into your life no matter how busy you are.
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