Thrive: An 8-Week Online Journey into Mindfulness, Resilience & Inner Peace
Reconnect to yourself. Regulate your nervous system. Return to calm.
Imagine this…
You start each week with clarity.
You feel more grounded — even when life gets chaotic.
You trust yourself more.
That’s what Thrive is here to help you build: sustainable inner calm, emotional resilience, and simple practices you can actually use — no matter how busy or messy life feels.
What is Thrive?
Thrive is a live online course that offers you a blend of science-backed modalities for improving well-being and your inner state. Each week offers tools to help you reframe your inner narrative and respond to life with more clarity and ease.
Thrive combines:
- Guided meditation and visualization to reduce stress and improve focus
- Tapping (EFT) to calm your nervous system and regulate emotions
- Simple practices to build awareness of thoughts, emotions, and habits
- Talks on topics such as self-talk, mental chatter, reframing, and gratitude
- Recorded meditations to support your practice between sessions
- A chance to share and connect in a supportive small group
You’ll explore a different theme each week, all within a warm, small-group setting. It is designed to be a supportive space to slow down, reflect, and grow.
Your inner state is the most important thing in your life.
Your inner state is the most important thing in your life. This was a profound realization I had during my own health adventure.
On the deepest level, your inner state shapes your happiness, your energy, your health—everything.
It is more important than what’s happening around you, or even in your body.
But how do you access it?
How do you go deeper, to live a richer, more fulfilling life?
The answer is—there are several paths. One of the most powerful is meditation. According to Psychology Today, meditation is one of the strongest practices for increasing your happiness set point and rewiring your brain for greater joy (and less stress!).
Like so many other activities that we know are good for us, meditation and similar modalities tend to fall into that category of things we just don’t fit into our day despite our best intentions. Or if so, then just briefly before the habit fades away again.
Thrive was developed to overcome this tendency, to help you build a regular practice, with a regular program of mindfulness exercises that will move you forward in your life, along with emotional freedom technique exercises to remove the blocks and limitations holding you back.
Join us on this 8-week journey of meditation, mindfulness, self-awareness, and transformational inner work. Awaken your serenity and creativity. Join us now and watch yourself shift from surviving to thriving.
What’s included:
- 8 live online group mindfulness meditation and visualization sessions plus
- 8 recorded meditations for home practice
- 8 live online guided emotional freedom technique (tapping) sessions to help re-program old patterns that no longer serve you
- Weekly talks to help you transform your mindset, and hence your life
- Optional weekly exercises to help you master various concepts
- A supportive community and connection with like-minded souls
“We cannot look externally for happiness. No one and no thing can make a person happy. Happiness comes from the inside. It’s a decision. It’s a mental state – or it’s the ‘no mind’ peace of meditation. Joy stems from within us and bubbles over, spilling onto the outside world.”
Brynn Elizabeth Hadler
What people are saying…
“The 8-week course that Brynn gives is full of diamonds.
Every week is filled with a combination of in-depth knowledge, meditations, insights, and homework. The combination of subjects in the 8 weeks is profound and is very helpful in gaining deep wisdom and in getting insight and help in your personal growth path.
Brynn sets a very safe environment where every experience is welcomed, and it’s given with a lot of enthusiasm and love.
My personal opinion: So helpful as a guiding line, a compass, on your path through life.”
Jeantilette Ates — the Netherlands
“I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with Thrive. The course was extremely well prepared and structured and the participation for me was a valuable, thought-provoking experience.
It reminded me once again about looking at smaller aspects of day-to-day life and the importance of taking some time to focus on these. For a newcomer to meditation, this was of particular interest to me and I found the guided meditation very pleasant and relaxing.“
Emma Somerville — Austria
“I am very happy that I took part the Thrive Program. The length and material proposed went far beyond any program I had gone through. I particularly like the gentle nudges for practices throughout the week, to make sure we practice what we learned and try to embody it. Each week, the sessions offered time for reflections, sharing from our experience, and valuable feedback from Brynn. I would be happy to continue on such a journey with her again, and will recommend it to a few people who I know would appreciate it as well.”
Madeleine Gross, PhD — USA
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is a type of meditation that focuses on being aware of your thoughts, feelings, and body sensations without judgment. Rather than being lost in our thoughts and living in the past or future, it continually brings us back to present moment awareness. Life can only be lived in the present moment!
“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live and that is the present moment.”
Buddha
As Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book so aptly implies, meditation allows us to literally and figuratively come to our senses. (Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn.)
Science supports tradition
It’s fascinating how various practices, often rooted in ancient traditions, are now being increasingly supported by modern scientific research for their profound impact on well-being and thriving.
Did you know that mindfulness meditation is as effective as an anti-depressant for treating anxiety?
In the first randomized clinical trial to compare these two treatments, Georgetown University researchers proved that a program of guided mindfulness meditation was as effective as the use of a gold-standard anti-depressive drug.
Evidence for the health benefits of meditation have been so profound that researchers have turned their attention to the “mechanism of action”, in other words, how meditation improves our health so significantly.
If meditation were a medication, it would be a blockbuster drug!
According to Deborah Norris, Ph.D., Founder of The Mindfulness Center, the clinical benefits of mindfulness practices have been explored “for treatment of just about every mental and physical health condition known to humankind” and meditation has a positive effect on “clinical outcomes for most every clinical condition defined by medical science.”
There’s more power in a group
Did you know? Meditating with a group of people enhances your focus, fosters connection, improves motivation and overall creates a different energy than when you are alone.
Don’t just go through life. Become truly alive. Relish life’s richness and beauty with a group of people on a similar path. Join now!
How These Practices Support Your Growth
Grounded in neuroscience and mind-body research, each technique in Thrive is chosen for its proven impact on mental and emotional well-being.
Meditation and Mindfulness
Both meditation and mindfulness practices train attention and awareness, and they are often studied together. Through these practice you can:
Build lasting well-being and inner stability.
By training your attention, these practices help reduce stress, regulate emotions, and rewire your brain toward more presence, positivity, and resilience. Over time, they boost your capacity to notice joy in everyday life — and respond to challenges with greater clarity and self-trust.
Numerous studies confirm the efficacy of meditation and mindfulness-based programs in reducing stress, anxiety, and depression. They work by shrinking the amygdala (the brain’s fear center), strengthening the prefrontal cortex (involved in emotional control), and calming the default mode network (which is associated with mind wandering and ruminating about the past and future). Large-scale studies on mind wandering have shown that, “A wandering mind is an unhappy mind”.
This ability of meditation to literally re-wire the brain also makes it one of the best methods to increase your happiness set point. While initially our happiness set point was thought to be fixed, neuroplasticity research indicates that it can be altered. And meditation is one of the most effective methods of shifting it towards greater inner contentment.
Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping)
Release emotional blocks and make room for joy.
Tapping combines gentle acupressure with self-reflection to calm the nervous system and shift stuck emotional patterns.
Research shows it lowers blood pressure and cortisol (a key stress hormone) and increases feelings of calm and contentment— clearing internal blocks that hold you back and making way for self-acceptance, confidence, and emotional freedom.
EFT has been extensively researched for its effectiveness in reducing anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Studies have shown significant declines in anxiety, depression, and pain, with increases in happiness.
Visualization
Activate your goals and experience joy in advance.
Visualization helps align your brain and body with the outcomes you want to create.
By mentally rehearsing success and focusing on positive emotional states, you build motivation, clarity, focus and perseverance. Studies have shown that visualizing desired outcomes has a measurable positive effect on performance.
Brain imaging shows that vividly imagining an experience activates similar neural networks as actually experiencing it, leading to physiological responses that can include changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature. It strengthens neural pathways related to that scenario, making the envisioned outcome feel more familiar and achievable.
Not only can it reduce performance anxiety, visualizing a peaceful state or a place where one feels joy, can evoke those feelings in the present moment. By focusing on positive sensations and outcomes, visualization can help to cultivate a more optimistic outlook and contribute to inner joy.
Each technique complements the others — helping you build the internal foundation for a more focused, fulfilling, and meaningful life.
Take a look at our schedule and find a class that works for you. No convenient time? Send us an email with your timezone and your ideal class dates and times. We look forward to meeting you!
Thrive with us!
