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The D.O.S.E. Starter Kit
The 60-second reset, the long-slow-deep breathing track, and five rescue tools for your worst moments. It’s the glovebox kit for a red-zone day. $27.
Coming soon
Hello, I’m Heidi, your Laugh Guard
Let’s Get You Out of the Red Zone.
Reset your nervous system in 15 playful minutes a day with the D.O.S.E. Method: your body’s own feel-good chemistry, opened up by the most underrated exercise on earth.
How it works
Your Body Already Makes the Medicine. I’ll Show You How to Open the Cabinet.
Dopamine. Oxytocin. Serotonin. Endorphins. Your daily D.O.S.E. No journaling and no jargon. And yes, kid, you’ll feel slightly silly. That’s the medicine working.
Steal this freebie
Read the First Chapter Free
Demote Versus Promote: the chapter where I out myself, forgive myself, and start laughing. Seventeen pages, with the swearing left in and three places where I make you stop and breathe. Pop your email in and it’s yours.
18years teaching laughter as exercise
160+people laughing with her every single night
0hangovers. Happy hour, guaranteed.
Why Laughter? Because You Can Feel It Working in Sixty Seconds.
Every other reset asks you to wait a month to find out if it worked. Laughter as exercise is the one lever you can feel move, in the first minute, in a room full of strangers.
Researchers pooled 18 studies on laughter-based practice: measured stress and anxiety went down.* Heidi has spent 18 years proving you do not need a sense of humor for it. Fifteen willing minutes will do.
less talking, more laughing →
*The research measures group averages. Your mileage, and your smileage, may vary.
Ways to wake the fun up
Start Small. Stay Playful.
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The 21-Day D.O.S.E. Reset
Fifteen live minutes a day, one feel-good lever at a time, with Heidi in the room. Rate yourself from 1 to 10 on Day 1. If your number doesn’t move in the first session, it’s free. $197.
Coming soon
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The P.L.A.Y. Zone
One live play session a week for eight weeks, with no Pity City allowed. Her whole operating system (Promote, Longevity, Accountable, Young-hearted) in a small, loud, happy room. $597.
Coming soon
Free, seven times a week
The Laughing
Wellness Club
A free global laughter club, live on Zoom, in two rooms on India and North American clocks. Thirty minutes, no jokes, no experience, and a room full of strangers who will not stay strangers. Come feel it once.
Join the Free Club →
Prepare to meet your Laugh Guard
I’m Heidi Barkwell, Your New what-the-FUN Friend.
Thirty-four years with the city. Fifteen of them as a lifeguard, saving bodies from drowning. Now I’m the Laugh Guard, saving bodies from drowning in the bamboozlement of the world. In between: Belize, a sports bar, a clown course, one very stubborn comeback, and a book I wrote to apologize to myself. Wanna hear the whole ridiculous story?
Read the Rest →People Feel It Fast.
It works, I get more energy.
Student, Ocean Academy, Belize
It’s like swallowing goodness.
Student, Ocean Academy, Belize
I started laughing in the middle of my meeting. This couldn’t have come at a better time.
Laughing Wellness community member
Overheard
"I could listen to you all day long."
Attendee, JoyFest, Red Deer
The book that started it
Laughing Wellness: P.L.A.Y. Your Way, Every Day.
Her whole story, out loud: the projects, the bar years, the comeback, and the method that came out of it. She wrote it to apologize to herself and published it so you would have the map.
Wanna feel it once?
Come Laugh
It Off.
In your first session, rate your state from 1 to 10 when we start, then again 15 minutes later. If your number doesn’t move, send one word and get a full refund.
Work With Heidi →