JOYLAB: WHERE WE HEAL TOGETHER
Why Healing Requires Community
For the past year, we’ve explored self-care in its realest form: rest, anger, nourishment, tears, stillness, friendship, laughter, and all the messy, beautiful pieces of what it means to care for a human life from the inside out. Each month has been an invitation to look inward, soften, listen, and return to the truth you’ve always known: healing isn’t something you do alone. Healing is something we practice together.
Which is why I created JOYLAB.
What Is JoyLab?
JoyLab is the culmination of an entire year of learning, unlearning, experimenting, and discovering what actually supports the nervous system, strengthens emotional resilience, and helps us reconnect with joy - not performative joy, not forced gratitude, but the grounded, embodied joy that rises from within when we stop abandoning ourselves.
JoyLab is a membership community designed to be your ongoing practice space, a place where we slow down, breathe together, laugh together, cry together, and reconnect to what makes life feel meaningful and alive. I built JoyLab because time and time again I see the same truth in my clients, in myself, and in the people around me: we do not heal behind closed doors. We heal in practice. We heal in relationship. We heal in community. We heal when we show up with each other and say, “I’m here, too.”
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
Experiential Healing, Not Performative Self-Care
Inside JoyLab, our focus is experiential healing. Not just talking about self-care, but doing it. Practicing it. Living it. Letting it reshape the way we relate to ourselves and the people we love. This is where the work becomes embodied.
What’s Included in the JoyLab Membership
Every month, JoyLab members have access to practices that support mind-body-spirit alignment, including mini-lectures rooted in Buddhist psychology, recommended reading, personal challenges, office hours, and community boards. Think of it as a laboratory for joy: a space where you can experiment with what helps you feel lighter, calmer, more grounded, more you.
But JoyLab is more than tools. It’s connection.
Why We Heal Better Together
We cannot separate joy from community. Humans are wired for co-regulation. We need people who remind us of who we are when we forget. We need circles that feel safe enough to bring our anger, our grief, our fear, our joy, and our desire for something better. JoyLab is built to be that circle.
BECOME A MEMBER
A Space Where You Don’t Have to Be the Strong One
And the beautiful thing about healing in community is that you don’t have to always be the strong one. You get to show up as you are: exhausted, hopeful, numb, curious, overwhelmed, delighted, and be met with compassion. You get to be held. You get to be witnessed. You get to experience what happens when shame loses its grip because you’re no longer hiding.
JoyLab is a practice of coming home to yourself, but you don’t have to make that journey alone.
WE HEAL TOGETHER. That is the mantra, the heartbeat, and the truth that guides everything inside this community.
Join JoyLab and Practice Healing Together
If you’re craving deeper connection, steadier joy, and a supportive place to keep growing, I would love to welcome you into JoyLab. Your joy is not a luxury, it’s a birthright. And together, we can learn how to live in it.
~ Rachel
WE WELCOME YOU TO JOYLAB
Rachel Gordon, MA, MEd, is a psychotherapist and founder of Humble Warrior Therapy, where she supports individuals in the Denver area with heart-centered, trauma-informed care.
