The Wild Happiness Project

What Looks Dead... May Be Full of Life 🍃

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Bonita Rae Pafford is a retired educator, speaker, entrepreneur, and creator of The Wild Happiness Project™, a movement dedicated to helping people find more joy, resilience, and momentum through simple, practical daily actions. After spending more than 25 years helping students overcome challenges and reach their potential, Bonita faced some of her own life-changing obstacles, including two traumatic brain injuries, career loss, and the need to rebuild many aspects of her life from the ground up. During that journey, she discovered that lasting change rarely comes from dramatic transformations. More often, it comes from tiny wins, small acts of courage, and learning to notice what is already working. Drawing on her background in education, personal development, mindfulness, and coaching, Bonita developed the Notice • Nudge • Nurture™ framework and created The Wild Happiness Project™ to help others strengthen their resilience, improve their well-being, and reconnect with what matters most. Through workshops, books, community programs, videos, and practical tools, Bonita encourages people to celebrate progress over perfection, collect proof of their efforts, and remember that happiness is not something we find once and keep forever—it is something we practice. Her guiding belief is simple: Tiny wins create momentum. Happier helps.