Get Some Joy

10/07/2026

GetSomeJoy needs 1000 Instagram followers to be able to host LIVE Mental Health Check-Ins with community members, leaders, changemakers, creatives, and everyone else via Instagram Live. We're soooo close!

Follow us on Instagram so we can spread MORE joy and bring our creative wellness strategies to life with a live audience:
🔗 instagram.com/gogetsomejoy

Subscribe to The Joy Report Newsletter to stay connected, learn about upcoming events and opportunities for joy, and receive recipes and resources and creative tools for thriving:
🔗 getsomejoy.com/newsletter

10/06/2026

Last month, GetSomeJoy partnered with West Oakland Library Friends to bring some creative resources and joy to their 2nd Annual Black Maternal Health & Wellness Expo at Oakland Public Library’s West Oakland Library.

Local wellness practitioners, agencies, and service providers created spaces for mothers, maternal health workers, and other supporters to connect, learn, recharge, share their experiences, gain resources, make tea and candles and other crafts, enjoy a delicious meal, and leave with a bag of fresh produce.

Attendees reflected and shared about mental health, self-care, supportive rituals, and meals that have helped them cope, navigate grief, and find joy via GetSomeJoy’s Community Literary Therapy Wall and impromptu Mental Health Check-Ins.

We learned how people are finding joy in these raggedy times, about West Oakland & Black Panther Party history, and the wide range of fantastic resources and workshops available at the West Oakland Branch - Oakland Public Library (1801 Adeline St., Oakland). And we distributed 150 copies of our resource, “griefKit: Crowdsourced tools and considerations for raggedy times.” Plus: fried chicken stickers and other creative tools for thriving. (Check out the griefKit here: getsomejoy.com/griefKit)

Shoutout to everyone who shared their story, a resource, words of encouragement, or somewhere delicious to eat while visiting!

08/06/2026

Need space to vent? Got something to get off your chest?

Join GetSomeJoy + Cam Crump (of the "When Judy Went Upstairs" podcast) for "On the Mic: What's Your Beef/Grief?" on Wednesday, August 26 to pop off, be affirmed, hear a range of perspectives, and leave feeling lighter.

🍗 RJOY's Charles Anderson will join us as our Petty Panelist.
🍗 GetSomeJoy's Alex Hardy will join as the Mature Panelist.
🍗 Host Cam & GetSomeJoy's Stevie Stringer will join as wildcard panelists.

Come relax, relate, release with us!

🗓️ Wednesday, August 26 @ 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET
➡️ Register here: https://bit.ly/gsj-onthemic1

03/11/2026

Join us at tonight's GetSomeJoy Peer Support Group - https://mailchi.mp/getsomejoy/march-peer-support

03/03/2026

Starting in the fall of 2025, GetSomeJoy launched a partnership with , a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to bring sustainable creative wellness strategies and joy to their regional CBO leadership conference series.

Since then, we’ve taken our creative wellness tools, our Community Literary Therapy Wall, and our fried chicken stickers to Houston, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Detroit to celebrate, pour into, resource, and learn from leaders, clinicians, advocates, and patients from across the country. Together, we explored ideas for cultivating joy-infused, affirming spaces for care, connection, and collaboration (and how they’re taking care of themselves and others along the way).

See how we’re supporting community builders on GetSomeJoy.com. (Link in our bio)

02/26/2026

Starting in the fall of 2025, GetSomeJoy launched a partnership with NMAC, a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to bring sustainable creative wellness strategies and joy to their regional CBO leadership conference series.

Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of leaders, clinicians, advocates, and patients across the country about cultivating joy-infused, affirming spaces for care, connection, and collaboration.

Learn more about our joy-infused partnership:
https://www.getsomejoy.com/newsandmedia/nmac-regional-cbo-leadership-summits

GetSomeJoy has partnered with NMAC, one of the nation’s largest HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations to bring joy-infused creative wellness resources to their 4-part Regional CBO Summit series. Literary Therapy Writing Program, leadership development, staff wellness, conference keynote, breakout, keyno...

01/29/2026

GetSomeJoy kicked off the new year by bringing creative wellness tools to NMAC's CBO Northeast Summit in Philadelphia.

After a rousing keynote by Sean M. Smith-Garçon, Director of The EPIcenter for Integrated Health @ NMAC, GetSomeJoy co-founder Alex Hardy invited attendees to celebrate themselves and the ways they've shown up for themselves and their communities via a GetSomeJoy Awards ceremony.

Attendees shared beautiful stories and applauded each other, and Alex invited people to

✅ do the exercise with their communities monthly or quarterly, and

✅ continue sharing their awards with him throughout the day in exchange for our beloved fried chicken stickers.

We gave out so many stickers.

And we talked to so many leaders about how they're prioritizing mental health amidst uncertainty and pouring into themselves and their teams.

We shared our griefKit resource guide (getsomejoy.com/griefkit), invited attendees to our biweekly Peer Support Groups (getsomejoy.com/peer-support), and conducted mental health check-ins via the Community Literary Therapy Wall.

Conference food highlights:

🍗 that tiramisu-like situation during the lunch plenary

🍗 the birria grilled cheese @ Continental down the bloc

🍗 the Italian Market Omelet @ Green Eggs Cafe across the street

Excited to spread more joy (and collect local food recommendations) next month at NMAC's CBO Midwest Summit February 23-26 in Detroit.

01/17/2026

[Sunday, January 18] Join us tomorrow for GetSomeJoy's Peer Support Group - https://mailchi.mp/getsomejoy/january18-getsomejoy-peer-support-group
+ Spreading joy @ NMAC's Regional Leadership Summit in Philadelphia

12/03/2025

How are you coping & finding joy during this holiday season? What resources, rituals, or mindsets are supporting you? What support do you need?

Join us tonight (December 3) @ 7:30pm ET via Zoom for a welcoming space to share about your mental health + how you’re doing, hear how others are making it, offer/receive hope + insights, and exchange tools for thriving. No diagnosis or insurance required!

Register here + bring snacks: bit.ly/gsjgroup-dec3

10/28/2025

This week, we’re bringing some JOY to NMAC’s CBO Leadership Summit in Oakland with our Community Literary Therapy Wall and creative wellness resources for the wonderful folks supporting vulnerable people and families through HIV/AIDS advocacy, care, funding, and more.

GetSomeJoy co-founder Alex Hardy created space for celebration and intention setting in a morning grounding/impromptu awards ceremony before today’s keynote. And the participants showered themselves with creative awards like “the Putting Myself First Award” and the “Adaptability Award.” Shoutout to everyone who celebrated themselves and applauded their colleagues. We brought postcards, fried chicken stickers, griefKits, and invitations to our biweekly Peer Support Groups. On Day 1, we made new friends, found enthusiastic collaborators, got some restaurant recommendations, and received some great hugs.

Excited for Day 2. Next stops: Brooklyn, Detroit, Hampton, and Philly