About the Tiny Joys book
When did you last stop, even for ten seconds, and truly enjoy something?
Do you want to boost your mood, calm your nervous system, and as a consequence, genuinely improve your health?
What if the secret to feeling better was simpler than you think?
Science is discovering something quietly remarkable: the small moments we rush past every day — a patch of sunlight, a favourite song, the smell of coffee, thirty seconds of birdsong — have a measurable effect on our mood, stress hormones, brain chemistry, and over time, our health. Not as metaphor. As biology.
Tiny joys trigger the release of dopamine and serotonin, activate the vagus nerve, reduce cortisol, and support the kind of nervous system regulation that builds genuine resilience over time. And the research goes further than you might expect.
Tiny Joys is a beautifully researched and occasionally wonderfully odd collection of 101 evidence-based practices drawn from neuroscience, positive psychology, and lifestyle science that genuinely shift how your days feel. Some are classic: mindfulness, gratitude, breathing, nature. Others might surprise you: blowing soap bubbles, telling a terrible joke, or watching cute animals.
Most activities only take minutes, or are things you’re already doing but have forgotten to enjoy. Every tiny joy is an invitation to feel better right now, and to build, over time, a life defined by well-being, healthy aging, and more of the good stuff without the empty calories.
What you’ll gain:
- A genuine mood boost: 101 simple practices that bring you back to yourself and actually shift your energy, outlook, and emotional resilience
- Understand why it works: each entry explains the neuroscience and positive psychology in plain language, so you trust the process
- Stress relief from the inside out: better mood leads to less stress, which leads to better hormonal health, longevity, and healthy aging
- Something for every moment: dark winter mornings, restless afternoons, overwhelmed evenings, and lazy Sunday rituals
- More pleasure, less guilt: a joyful antidote to burnout, doomscrolling, and the exhausting pursuit of productivity at the expense of enjoyment
Tiny pleasures → Less stress → Better mood → A longer, richer life
Perhaps happiness isn’t something we arrive at. Perhaps it’s something we notice in a collection of moments.
Written for the woman navigating perimenopause, the man facing his own midlife shift, and anyone feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or simply navigating one of life’s more difficult seasons, Tiny Joys is a quiet companion to reach for again and again, whenever you need a reminder that joy was never something you had to earn.
A thoughtful gift for someone you love. Or for yourself. Because you deserve it too.