I believe the right type of self-care can make all the difference between surviving/struggling and thriving in your body, mind, and life. 

I also know firsthand how difficult, frustrating, or even impossible self-care...or even the idea of it...can be when you are overwhelmed or lacking resources of time, space, accurate information, energy, and finances...

This is why I priced this program at three reasonable, attainable levels of investment...so it is accessible regardless of your level of resource. This is what community is all about for me: creating a program that restores connection within individuals to their own personal power to influence how they feel and show up in their own bodies and in the world...which carries over into families and communities. 

This program is valued over $500, and is offered at regular price for $297...but I'm offering this program at choose your payment prices to kick off 2021. 

You may choose which payment is affordable to you: $25, $55, or $99

And if you have to choose between $25 or basic survival needs (food, shelter, heat), please reach out to me for additional hardship options at [email protected].

Let's get started...together. You don't have to do this alone. 

I believe self-care can create a meaningful shift in how you feel and show up in your body and in the world. The right type of self-care can be natural, easy, and non-performative. It can even result in a reconnection to your personal power by providing a means to influence how you feel and how you recover from life’s challenges. 

Self-care means tending to your needs in the moment, or as soon as possible. It involves identifying what you need mentally, emotionally, physically, and/or spiritually so you can take appropriate action/inaction that leads to the fulfillment of your needs. This allows you to support and sustain yourself in a way that feels empowering, loving, and honoring of your resources.

But consumer culture has turned self-care into a form of indulgence, such as taking a bubble bath or a nap, getting a massage, or retail therapy. Though these indulgent acts can be classified under the umbrella of self-care, they require a certain level of privilege and resources that are not available to everyone. 

Indulgent self-care dependent on privilege and consumerism can exacerbate a sense of disconnection from ourselves and our communities. It is a form of othering that provides a false sense of ‘tending to your needs’. There can be shame associated with not being privileged enough to afford the resources necessary for indulgent self-care, resources that include money, time, space, and energy that are often limited in marginalized persons and communities. 

The type of self-care I teach is geared toward wholeness which encompasses not only the whole individual - body, mind, emotions, and energy - but also wholeness as it applies to connection and communities. The Wholeness-based Self-care I teach provides effective ways to process emotions, calm the nervous system, and support the bodymind’s self-healing mechanisms in just 5-10 minutes per day. It takes support and clarity to practice self-care in a way that makes a real difference in how you feel.

Self-care is a great way to tend to and meet your own needs of body, mind, relationship, and spirit.  However, self-care in and of itself is often not practical or sustainable in modern life where there are often not community care and support structures in place.

Marginalized persons and communities suffer the most in terms of self-care...consumer culture pushes self-care like it is the holy grail of wellness, dangling like a carrot on a string just out of reach. If self-care is rooted in guilt, shame, or privilege then it is no wonder just the idea or suggestion of self-care - much less the application - is frustrating, infuriating, off-putting, or impractical for so many people.

Self-care begins with the individual, but ultimately, it is how self-care can become a form of community-care...with practical self-care solutions that enable a person to support their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual/energetic needs. It must be affordable, easy to practice, and supported in a community in order to be successful. 

I started teaching a wholeness approach to self-care to individual clients 10 years ago and now it is time to expand into community based programs. For me, success is defined by teaching individuals how to practice self-healing, wholeness-based Self-care within a community of support so that the meaning of Self-care shifts from consumerism to community.

I want you and everyone to know how much power you have to influence your body’s natural healing mechanisms from the inside out. I want you to feel safe and comfortable in your body. I want you to feel an increase in your capacity to care for others and show up in the world the way you both desire and deserve.

Overwhelm is a form of internal stress caused by unprocessed emotions, past trauma (personal, ancestral, or systemic), or environmental factors (finances, juggling work, family, health, and so much more)...

It is so much more than just a feeling, overwhelm is a physiology and a biochemistry that is difficult to override in order to feel better/safer/clear-minded. Once a person experiences overwhelm or stress at a conscious level, the physical body is already shifting all it's attention to survival. This means that your body's autonomic system operations (the ones you don't think about in order for them to function) are slowed down. It gets more difficult to process information, have clarity about your feelings or needs in the moment, express yourself, and so much more. The more frequently you experience this level of stress, the more difficulty your body has restoring allostatic balance, which is the process of returning to a state of calm and optimal function. 

If you are chronically stressed or overwhelmed, the right type of self-care can be the best thing for you...yet, it is also asking you to 'do one more thing' in a state of which 'one more thing' feels impossible.

This self-care session will meet you where you are and help you calm your nervous system over the course of 8 weeks to help you help yourself feel more present, clear, and able to just get through the day. Calming the nervous system alone helps you recover faster in moments of stress/intense emotion and allows you to experience relaxation or calm when you need it most. It will also help you sleep...and sleep is imperative to reducing overwhelm.

If you are willing and able to try this program, you will have the daily guidance necessary to experience the benefits of feeling less overwhelmed and more capable of facing each day. 

In this program, you will not have to think or research...just show up and listen, then do the simple practices for about 5-10 minutes daily while taking a shower, brushing your teeth, or getting ready for bed. If none of these times in your routine are good for you, I will help you discover when and how to implement these practices in your life without breaking the resource bank. 

I'll meet you where you are, not the other way around. You just show up and do your best, the rest will take care of itself. And if this isn't the right time for you, or you just.can't.even right now...I accept you where you are in this moment, I honor you as you are, and I love you as you are. I've been at that place where I could not even do one more thing and I felt the anger, shame, and guilt of being in that place...I don't want you to feel that way, I want you to know that it is okay to feel how you feel and be how you are, always. When you are ready, I'll be ready...