I am new to all of this and find it intriguing and terrifying at the same time.

New day. New move. What’s ONE thing you’re carrying into today that makes you: - Smarter? - Funnier? - Cozier with your Tortured side? Call it. Claim it. Drop it below. 👇

It’s that inner light that says: despite the chaos, you don’t get the best of me. I still choose radiance. I still choose to lift the room I’m in. Viktor Frankl—Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist—wrote that even when everything is stripped away, we retain a final freedom: to choose our attitude. That’s the engine of defiant joy. Not denial. Choice. Agency. Sovereignty. So as the headlines try to grind you down, remember: no one can command you to “be happy.” Happiness is an outcome. Defiant joy is a stance. Camus called it revolt in the face of the absurd—the discipline of saying yes to life even when it makes no sense. Or as he framed it, we must imagine Sisyphus happy. Move through your day lit from within. Be defiantly joyful—so others see it, feel it, and remember their own light. ✨ QUESTION FOR YOUR DAY: When, today, will you practice one tiny act of defiant joy—and what will it be?

A steadier way to move through weeks like these, together. In days like these, the air gets thin. Outrage spikes, hope dips, timelines melt into a single fever. If you’re feeling exhausted or numb, you’re not failing—you’re processing. The Smart Funny Tortured were built for days like these. Smart is our pattern recognition. We refuse panic’s short horizon. We look for repeating signals, incentives, and second-order effects.Funny is our Defiant Joy. Not denial—discipline. The posture that keeps a room human when fear is trying to rewrite the script. Tortured is our fluency in shadow. We know shame and trauma by name, and that’s why we don’t shatter at the first hit. We transmute. The SFT Crisis Code: Calm. Clear. Kind. Courageous. Calm nervous systems make better choices. Clarity slices through noise. Kindness keeps the social fabric from tearing. Courage moves us from commentary to contribution. A simple playbook - Read the room: What pattern is present? What’s signal vs. spectacle? - Hold the room: Breathe. Speak slower. Offer warmth. Check on two people. - Rebuild the room: One sovereign act today—share a vetted resource, protect someone’s dignity, support a local org, or offer your craft where it matters. If you need structure, our Reflection Engines are live in Skool (Smart, Funny, and Tortured). Upload your handwritten worksheets, get a private readout, and choose your next move from a grounded place. We don’t do performative panic here. We practice Defiant Joy and disciplined action. Read. Hold. Rebuild. Together. Join the conversation in Skool and post your one action for this week.

I was guided by my friend Alexandra to join this community. I own a small business owner in Santa Rosa, CA called Soul Movement, biomechanics and body work by Brooke. I specialize is corrective posture and gait. Looking to expand my practice merging biomechancs with mental, emotional spiritual practices. Excited to be apart of this community.