The Joyful Freedom Approach
The Joyful Freedom Program
A six-session journey back to your energy, vitality, and joy.
A research-based recovery program that restores vitality and holistic wellness after a depleting season of life — illness, loss, or long-held stress. It weaves the Energy Restoration Framework with your own qualities, talents, and preferences, so the work is wholly your own.
- Six guided sessions, unfolding over three to six months
- Built on the Energy Restoration Framework — the five PECAN energies
- A personalised Blueprint for Lifelong Energy Creation to keep
- Woven from hypnotherapy, Reiki, and more, chosen with you
- Grounded in Marilynne's 40+ years of published research
- In person in Darwin, or gently adapted for online
Developed by Dr Marilynne Kirshbaum · RN, PhD
What's Inside
The Five Energies of Restoration
The Approach rests on five core qualities of energy-restoring activity — the PECAN framework — woven through every session to bring you back to vitality.
Purposeful Action
P · PurposeReconnect with the actions and intentions that give your days direction and meaning.
Values, goals & meaningful doing
Expansion
E · ExpansionOpen to growth and possibility, stretching gently beyond the familiar.
Learning, creativity & play
Connection
C · ConnectionRestore the bonds — to others, to place, and to yourself — that hold you steady.
People, place & self
Awe & Wonder
A · AweMake room for the awe-inspiring wonder that lifts you above the everyday.
Nature, beauty & the sublime
Nourishment
N · NourishmentReplenish body, mind, and spirit with what truly feeds you.
Rest, pleasure & replenishment
Every session is shaped around you — your qualities, talents, and the energies you most need to restore.
Your Journey
Six Sessions, Five Movements
Across six sessions over three to six months, we move gently through five stages, building your personalised Blueprint for Lifelong Energy Creation.
Relax
Relax, ground, and centre, settling into a safe and supportive therapeutic space.
Reveal
Reveal and meet yourself, exploring what has depleted you and what restores you.
Release
Release the blocks and attachments that stand in your way.
Restore
Restore yourself to optimum joy, freedom, and life-force energy.
Review
Review and reflect, carrying your Blueprint for Lifelong Energy Creation forward.
According to your preference, sessions may include life-coaching, hypnotherapy, Reiki, shamanic journeying, soul contract and akashic readings, and art-based activities. Stand-alone sessions are also available.
Created By
Born from Research and Care
The Joyful Freedom Approach grew from Dr Marilynne Kirshbaum's extensive exploration and research into cancer-related fatigue, energy depletion and what to do about it.
It has proven to benefit people working to cope with illness and distressing life events and provides a creative, intuitive, and scholarly path back to vitality.
- 40+ years of published research
- The Energy Restoration Framework, developed by Marilynne
- Personalised to your qualities, talents & preferences
Also With Marilynne
More Ways to Work Together
One to One
Hypnotherapy
Personalised clinical hypnotherapy for anxiety, empowerment, unwanted habits, trauma, and lasting change.
Single Session
Stand-Alone Sessions
Any of the program's modalities — Reiki, life-coaching, a shamanic journey — available on their own.
From the Program
Words from Joyful Freedom
“Marilynne helped me deal with my energy depletion after a prolonged period of stress. Joyful Freedom is truly transformative. The program is highly individualised as well as varied, combining different therapies and healings. The sessions helped me acknowledge and reconcile with past negative experiences in a safe environment. Marilynne is knowledgeable and versatile as well as deeply caring, understanding and positive. Marilynne has showed me that it is possible to repair, heal and be joyful.”
“I have enjoyed beginning a journey towards joyful freedom with Marilynne. Marilynne is knowledgeable, skilled, compassionate and committed. Marilynne created a delightfully personalised program that responded my journey so far and goals for the future. The Joyful Freedom approach is a great way to explore a variety of approaches and techniques for unlocking and exploring - it's been fun to try hypnosis, art therapy and journaling responses to Marilynne's prompts and questions. These approaches have helped me release tension, learn about myself and explore ways to balance my energy levels.”
“Awesome. Marilynne blew me away! I felt her gentle healing love and deep understanding. We had a great time exploring 'me' together.”
Begin
Ready to Restore Your Energy?
It begins with a discovery chat, a relaxed conversation about where you are and what you'd love to restore. No pressure, no commitment.