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01. The Joy List

  • Writer: Shai Deandra
    Shai Deandra
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jul 10, 2025

When you’re a kid you don’t think about finding the time to do what you like, you just make it happen. You’ve made it to The Joy List, welcome! This is a community compiled list of simple activities you can do to give your inner child the hug, giggles, lightness, softness and release it deserves. 


Take what resonates. Leave what doesn’t.


Don’t stop P L A Y I N G !


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  • piggy back rides

  • be in the ocean on a sunny day

  • make clown masks

  • drawing

  • take myself on a picnic

  • wander through the day with a schedule, plan or expectations

  • do tarot

  • hugging a friend

  • taking off my shoes and feeling the grass

  • smoke a j 

  • watch a mind tingling film

  • make love

  • drink coffee or tea while watching plants rustle in the breeze

  • activate lizard mode in the sun

  • dance it out

  • read a book in a beautiful place

  • create music

  • paint outside on a nice cloudy day

  • search for beach glass

  • therapeutic cry 

  • connect with friends

  • going outside to play

  • reading books that inspire expansion with that AHA moment

  • pilates classes

  • bird watch

  • eating fruit with just my hands and letting the juices drip all over 

  • laying in the grass and looking at the clouds pass

  • go to experimental art shows

  • go to spoken word performances

  • game night with friends

  • having a day out with friends that doesn’t involve drinking

  • meeting interesting people and having enlightening conversations 

  • new experiences with kind people

  • creating home decorations

  • finger painting 

  • dressing up and styling myself like a character

  • riding horses

  • snorkeling 

  • making a nourishing meal

  • feeling sexy

  • inspiring photoshoots with friends

  • trips with friends

  • creating art with friends

 
 
 

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