Spiraling Toward Joy
Happiness Lives Here
Happiness Work
Where to find happiness: Events, classes, groups, and speaking engagements
Barb's Book
Love Loves Fear: If a book could hug, this one would.
Work With Barb
Learn to feel better, no matter where you’re starting from
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Weddings, commitment ceremonies, blessings, and spiritual gatherings
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Celebrations of Life, Memorial Services, Bereavement Support, Living Memorials
“Here’s what I know to be true at this time:
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What I focus on expands. So I want to gently look within, with kindsight. Look at any of the ways that I contribute to the hate and the fear and the anger. Find an openness within me that I can feel those feelings and transform them with love. It’s the only thing that’s bringing relief and ease to my broken heartedness
Each morning I start my day asking what LOVE would do. In the last couple of days, I’ve been asking all day in a silence, prayerful way, and in a crying, screaming heartbroken way, deeply, and asking what is mine to do.
That’s when I realize that mine is to love, to look for the love, the hope, the goodness, the connections, the helpers. Keep asking my guidance to direct me to the most loving response from within me.
I simply can’t meet hate with hate, I’ve seen what that does and I can’t meet fear with fear or anger with anger. I can retreat and go within and be still and ask for guidance. It’s all I can do, so it’s what I’m doing for now. That’s how I built my resourcefulness, my strength and my energy so that I am ready to greet the world every day and look for love.
It’s there I see it and I find it and when I focus on it it grows – that’s what I choose to do.”
-Barb Ryan
Six Tools of Upliftment
Use these six tools to lift up your spirit
Video & Audio
The latest recordings from Nights of Insight, interviews, speaking engagements and more
About Barb
Happiness Coach, Speaker, Teacher, Author, Counselor, Celebrant
Barb Ryan, M.S., known as the ‘Guidess of Happiness,’ provides a unique perspective based on her combined life experiences as a counselor, teacher, activist, speaker and author. Barb has been leading happiness workshops and classes throughout the Pacific Northwest since 2010. With more than 30 years experience as a counselor in private practice in Eugene, Oregon, Barb has worked with people at all stages of life and loves the process of helping clients find insight.
Barb’s philosophy is that connecting with one’s core of happiness is personally beneficial as well as exponentially helpful in creating an energy shift for the whole planet. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the purpose of life is to be happy.
Barb believes that happiness is our natural and original state of being. She is dedicated to teaching people how to raise their energy/vibration to a more joyful experience, no matter where they begin.
Spreading joy by teaching happiness tools, Barb Ryan is changing the world one person at a time.
Nights of Insight
Do you choose to live through love instead of fear and yet find the way isn’t always clear? Join Barb Ryan, the Guidess of Happiness, for a Night of Insight. Playing the Tibetan singing bowl, Barb brings forth the Spirit of Love. Receive wisdom and insights regarding your questions and concerns. Spirit’s responses are both highly personal and beneficial to all.
Counseling, Workshops, Classes, and Speaking Engagements
Counseling/Coaching: Work with Barb
Barb provides a unique perspective based on her combined life experiences as a counselor, teacher, activist, speaker and author. Let her guide you toward finding and sustaining your core of happiness. Expand your ability to live life by choosing love over fear! Call, email or text Barb to set up a free one hour intake session, online or in-person.
Speaking Engagements
Barb offers inspirational presentations on a variety of topics, with an emphasis on happiness, and finding joy, meaning and insight in everyday life. She is available for public and private speaking engagements for groups, churches, corporate events, and conferences in Oregon, or anywhere in the world. Give your event attendees an uplifting experience!
Classes & Workshops
Barb teaches classes and workshops in the practical application of happiness work, well-being, and letting go of worry. Visit the calendar for upcoming classes, or feel free to contact Barb with requests. Online options available.
