a radical roadmap to joy & inner wisdom
The Awaken Joy Journey: A Six Month Program That Guides You To The Life You Truly Want to Be Living
IN ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR TRUE PURPOSE
KNOWING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS ARE HEALTHY AND STRONG
FEELING CONFIDENT AND SELF-ASSURED
WITH A PEACEFUL BRAIN THAT DOES NOT WORRY ALL THE TIME
FEELING KIND AND CARING TOWARD YOURSELF
WITHOUT NEGATIVE SELF-TALK
FEELING GROUNDED AND CENTERED
a radical roadmap to joy & inner wisdom
This online program weaves together mindfulness meditation, psychotherapy techniques and buddhist philosophy to take you on a deep dive into self-knowledge and self-compassion, while providing the guidance and accountability you need to follow through to achieve the life you truly want to be living.
empowering you with all you need
to make lasting, positive change in the shortest time frame possible
without spending years in aimless, amorphous therapy
This 6-month program takes you step by step on the inner journey needed to live a more joyful, connected, authentic life.
the time is now
Why waste more years feeling badly about yourself, constantly worried about the future and unhappy? You can retrain your brain towards joy. You can be your own best friend, develop self-compassion and improve all your relationships at the same time!
Group Coaching Sessions, Weekly, via Zoom
Small Group Size, Limited to 10
Combination of Live and Prerecorded Video Sessions to Systematically Bring You From Stressed and Overwhelmed to Grounded
Guidance for A Deep Mindfulness Meditation Practice
Accountability Check-Ins and Personalized Guidance
Access to Course Material All Year
Private Group Site to Deepen Your Understanding through Group Discussion
Working With Barbara
There is nothing else like this program available! I know I have not found this vital combination of info/life skills/support/meditation anywhere! -- Betsy R..
Barbara, This has been a year of clarity for me and I could not have done it without your guidance. Thank you for helping me put the pieces of myself back together. Resolution #1: “I am hear to live out loud!” - Emile Zora. Happy New Year — Abby S.
Barbara helped transform my life from a place of fear to a place of confidence. Our work together even transformed my marriage. Working with Barbara is one of the best choices I ever made. -- Kathy E.
Beat yourself up all the time with negative self-talk
Constantly ruminate about the past or fear the future
Suffer with low self-esteem and low self-confidence
Be drained by your relationships or your work
Live with relentless worry and anxiety
Struggle with healthy boundaries and doing too much for others
awaken joy is changing the landscape
Awaken Joy is changing the conversation about psychotherapy, mindfulness meditation and Buddhism. Meditation centers and Buddhist philosophy tend to ignore childhood imprinting and traumatic wounds. Psychotherapy avoids interconnectedness, radical acceptance and other life-changing philosophies. Neither usually has a structure to help people make change in a comprehensive manner using tools of coaching and accountability. This program changes all that.
joy lives within each of us
It gets covered over when we are wounded, stressed, anxious, and chasing goals that are not satisfying. The Awaken Joy Journey provides a framework, based on the Four Pillars of Joy, that will uncover and activate your intrinsic joy. You can use this framework the rest of your LIFE to live with clarity, confidence and joy.
guidance, accountability and support
Change is hard! Changing your brain takes practice and follow-through. Developing a meditation practice takes commitment and inspiration. We provide the step by step guidance along with an accountability coach and group support to keep you on track. You can do this! And we will show you how.
this program is not for you if you are suffering with severe depression, unable to function in one of the main areas of your life, and/or struggling with addiction.
this program is not a substitute for, and does not provide, psychotherapeutic or medical help for mental illness.
THE AWAKEN JOY JOURNEY IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER PROGRAM OUT THERE
The Awaken Joy Journey provides a comprehensive blending of two powerful wisdom traditions, psychotherapy and buddhist philosophy.
The program is also unique in terms of:
The insight you will develop. You can take cheap courses online. Yet, with no one to bounce ideas off of your interpretation can stay stuck. The customized live videos and group discussions in this program will deliver new ways of understanding yourself, your loved ones and the world.
The support you will receive and the behavioral changes you will make. Again, with the cheap courses online, there is no accountability. Even in 1:1 therapy, it is rare for there to be accountability. With this program, you will have bi-weekly check-ins, infused with kindness and empathy.
The self-compassion you will cultivate. The most important relationship in your life? Your self! What if you truly loved yourself and treated yourself with loving kindness?
The healing you will experience. The combination of mindfulness meditation techniques with an understanding of how our childhood imprinting has impacted us leads to deep, joyful healing.
Joy lives within each of us. It can get covered over by stress, societal expectations, trauma, hardships, interpersonal wounds. But it is there. It just needs to be uncovered and activated and this program will show you how.
Barbara Heffernan
Working With Barbara
Barbara's approach is nothing less than revolutionary in the field of personal growth! It is a very empowering & inspirational message. I am applying the practical actions & methods she taught us. THANK YOU to Barbara & those of you working with her! Your generosity & talents will help to change the world! Namaste! -- Teresa Haugen
Barbara’s skillsets are unique, and I feel, very critical to her success with making these approaches to enhancing life and happiness so valuable. I come from a legal background, and have trained as a monastic, (now still in my profession and training in clinical pastoral work) and so for personal reasons find true resonance with Barbara's approach. Like the old parable of finding a gem hidden in the seam of a robe, I am glad to have found Barbara.
If you aren't working with Barbara, you're doing it wrong! -Barry G.
Barbara offers unique insights and perspective that can be used in actionable ways. She has a way of helping people explore their lives and possibilities, so what comes out of an interaction with Barbara is deeper and more personally meaningful than most experiences I've had in the past with counseling and therapy. She has great frameworks for helping people think through life situations and goals. I participated in her online workshop but got more out of that participation than I ever anticipated. I didn't get lost in details, like I do in therapy sessions... I moved forward and got excited about where I can go from here. She is very compassionate and insightful. --Heather Jacoby