The Play Rebels

In this episode of The Play Rebels, Bailey and TJ close out Season 2 by exploring the final letter in SIMPLE: Engagement. 

If your brain isn’t engaging in joy, what is it engaging in? That’s the question explored on today’s episode as well as examples and resources for how to many life just a little bit more enjoyable in the everyday.

This episode and all of season two are part of our broader exploration of SIMPLE – an acronym to help you to cultivate play in your everyday. 

Click here to check out our A SIMPLE Way to Cultivate Play Expansion Workbook here

We know people listen to The Play Rebels, but does anyone read these descriptions that Bailey writes? If so, please email [email protected] for your free gift. 

Episode Chapters 

01:33 Where Attention Goes

05:30 Play Is a State

07:44 Debating if you can play all day? 

10:15 Signs You Need Play

12:01 Engagement Scale Tools

17:52 Season Wrap and Next Steps

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

In this episode of The Play Rebels, Bailey and TJ are focused on the “L” in SIMPLE: “let it,” exploring how to let play begin, unfold, and end.

Playing isn’t simple or easy, and in this episode they explore different “let it” traps that could be stopping you from feeling joy.

This episode and all of season two are part of our broader exploration of SIMPLE – an acronym to help you to cultivate play in your everyday. 

Click here to check out our A SIMPLE Way to Cultivate Play Expansion Workbook here.

We know people listen to The Play Rebels, but does anyone read these descriptions that Bailey writes? If so, please email [email protected] for your free gift. 

Episode Chapters

01:06 Let it Experiential 

10:01 Let it Experiential pt 2

15:05 Three Let It Traps

24:49 Risk And Trust

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

Adults don’t play like children, but you’d have no way of knowing that based on a lot of play education. 

In this episode of The Play Rebels, Bailey and TJ are sharing the Top 10 Ways Adults Play. Give it a listen to learn how things like organizing, climbing, and solving are play .

This episode and all of season two are part of our broader exploration of SIMPLE – an acronym to help you to cultivate play in your everyday. 

Click here to check out our A SIMPLE Way to Cultivate Play Expansion Workbook here.

We know people listen to The Play Rebels, but does anyone read these descriptions that Bailey writes? If so, please email [email protected] for your free gift. 

Episode Chapters

01:50 Adult Play And Inner Child

07:32 Top 10 Adult Play Styles

11:40 Mind Heart Body Framework

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

It’s been three years since Bailey learned the embodied definition of play, and it changed her life forever (without changing a single thing). 

In this episode of The Play Rebels, TJ leads Bailey through an exploration of how her play has developed and grown since that first meeting in 2023. 

Without knowing it, Bailey used the SIMPLE framework to start slowly building everyday joy in her life through play and it transformed her experience of adulthood from one that centered on control and anxiety to one of joy liberation and deep community. 

This episode and all of season two are part of our broader exploitation of SIMPLE – an acronym to help you to cultivate play in your everyday. 

Click here to check out our A SIMPLE Way to Cultivate Play Expansion Workbook here.

Episode Chapters

03:33 Before and After Play

15:34 Starting Small Daily

27:46 Playfulness In Small Moments

35:45 Leaving Invisible Rules Behind

40:29 Mind Heart Body Portals

46:11 Lifelong Commitment To Joy

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

Adults don’t play like kids. Except…some do?

In this episode of The Play Rebels, we’re exploring the M in SIMPLE: Meaning Making. 

Meaning Making can be a powerful anchor as you start reclaiming play. A way to focus on the “why” behind your engagement and an anchor for when it becomes awkward or doesn’t go well.

But do you need meaning to play? Maybe not. That’s why we’re sharing a five-question quiz which will help you learn where you are on the Whimcial to Meaning Making Spectrum of play.  

See your full results by taking the Meaning Maker Quiz on our website! 

This episode and all of season two are part of our broader exploitation of SIMPLE – an acronym to help you to cultivate play in your everyday. 

Click here to check out our A SIMPLE Way to Cultivate Play Expansion Workbook here.

Episode Chapters

02:38 When you don’t identify as “playful” 

09:40 Meaning Making Quiz 

14:26 Results + What’s Next 

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

What’s your relationship to the word “impulse”? Does it bring up good feelings or bad? 

This is episode 2 of our season dedicated to cultivating play the SIMPLE way. Episode 1 focused on Starting Small, and episode 2 will focus on the “I” in SIMPLE: Impulse. 

Impulse is a loaded term in a culture. We’re trained from a young age that impulses can’t be trusted, that they need to be suppressed, and that an adult is someone who “controls their impulses.” 

But what if impulses were the key to your joy? 

The next step to cultivating play in your everyday life is facing your impulses–and relearning that there are many impulses you can trust. 

From grind culture, performance, and “good girl” mentality–this episode explores all the ways our connection to desires and impulses was eroded over time. TJ and Bailey share their personal impulse suppression and liberation stories as a way to help you reconnect to your own impulses towards joy. 

The episode closes with a “Do one thing” experiential to help listeners make the connection between joy, play, and impulses. 

Click here to check out our Cultivating Play Made SIMPLE Season Accompaniment to Explore your own relationship to impulses. 

Episode Chapters

00:56 Why Impulse Feels Loaded

03:35 Impulse Game! 

06:42 Bailey’s Impulse Suppression Tale

17:25 TJ’s  Impulse Suppression Tale

36:27 Impulse Trust and Grace

40:02 Small Safe Impulses + Do One Thing Practice

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

This season of The Play Rebels fully focuses on how to cultivate play in your everyday life, working through our SIMPLE acronym from Season 1. 

Our first episode starts with S: Start Small.

In this episode, we explore the cultural traps that hinder our ability to play in the everyday, including phrases like “go big or go home,” perfectionism, outcome-thinking, and internal and external pressure.  

We then give you a FREE game you can play to Start Small: The Grocery Store Playlist. 

Playing in your everyday life can reduce stress, anxiety, overwhelm, and melancholy by helping the brain reorient toward everyday enjoyment without requiring extra time, money, or big hobbies. We’re here to help you learn how. 

Click here to get the Grocery Store Playlist for free

Click here to check out our Cultivating Play Made SIMPLE  Workbook

Episode Chapters 

03:36 The Culture Joy Traps

11:44 Grocery Store Playlist

24:39 Play & Surrendering Control

30:53 How to use the Grocery Store Playlist

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more. 

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

The Play Rebels are back! And this time we’re bringing play into your everyday life. 

Season 2 of The Play Rebels will dive into a SIMPLE Way to Cultivate Play, we’re going step-by-step, teaching you how to feel and grow joy in your life. 

Like last season, we’ll have lots of play, personal exploration, and free resources to help you deepen your connection to joy. 

But wait...there’s more! We’ve also created a special Season 2 workbook you can play with while you listen! 

Both the workbook and episode 1 will be available on June 24, so subscribe and share so you don’t miss an episode! 

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

On this bonus episode of The Play Rebels, TJ + Bailey share what they’ve been hard at work on and how you can join. From May 11 to 15, join When Stillness is Suffocating, a 5-part expansive mindfulness course that will transform your relationship with mindfulness, provide more clarity in your daily life, and provide paths of expression and release.

Over 5 days, you’ll create an expansive mindfulness routine that…

💖 Actually FEELS GOOD for you, seriously, did you know mindfulness is supposed to feel good and not like work?

📅 Integrates into your daily life, you’ll learn how to identify when you need different styles of mindfulness and ways to practice in the middle of everything you do, not separate from it.

😡 Gives embodied paths of expression for more intense feelings like rage, grief, sadness, overwhelm, and anxiety. Expansive mindfulness helps you process and digest rather than suppress.

And we want YOU to join us! 

Learn more + register here: https://www.theplayfulrevolution.com/when-stillness-is-suffocating

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.

Is football season a fumble or a touchdown for you? 

In this bonus episode of the Play Rebels, TJ surprises Bailey with an impromptu discussion about football and its deeper implications beyond just the sport. 

No matter if you’re a football fan or not, you’ll want to listen to this deeper exploration of ritual play, inclusion, and what makes for good competition. 

They discuss the challenges of traditional gender roles and exclusivity in sports-watching and offer insights for creating a more inclusive and fulfilling play environment. 

The conversation explores themes of power dynamics, relational play, rituals, and meaning-making within the context of football fandom. 

TJ and Bailey also offer a free tool to help you navigate football if it’s not your favorite. Access the free Annoyance Antidote series here: Stop Feeling Annoyed

Episode Chapters 

04:33 Rituals and Traditions in Football

07:59 Inclusivity in Football Culture

10:58 Challenges and Dynamics in Fandom

15:45 The Role of Competitiveness in Sports

24:10 Addressing Relationship Issues Around Football

30:30 Rituals and Inclusivity in Gatherings

Further your play reorientation by visiting www.theplayfulrevolution.com. There you'll find free play practices, courses, and more.

Send us your play as well as your questions and curiosities via email at [email protected] or on Instagram by following us and DMing us @theplayfulrevolution.