Self Care Isn’t Soft. It’s Strategy.

How emotional self-care became the blueprint for a new kind of healing school.

I never set out to build an online school.
I set out to survive.

Burnout had worn my bones. Moral injury had shredded my soul. And every system that claimed to “support” me had quietly handed me back my silence.

I needed something deeper than a bath bomb.

I needed a radical act of self-care that didn’t ignore the world I was living in.

Since COVID -19, I’ve been quietly building a new kind of learning space, one that reclaims self-care as strategy, not soft fluff. We tested it during that time and it worked but it just didn’t go far enough. I always felt there was something missing and after a lot of soul searching and research we think we have identified how to communicate in a way that will help people take control. I hope so because Self Care is an inside job.

It’s called WOW Self Care School, and it’s rooted in trauma-informed practice, moral courage, and what I now know is diplomatic defiance.

At the centre is something I believe deeply:

Emotional self-care is the foundation of everything.

Not physical fitness. Not time management. Not money.
Until we reclaim our inner world, our nervous system, our grief, our patterns, our power, every other effort risks becoming a performance. Every single human has these challenges so there is no silver bullet. You have to do the work.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing the evolution of WOW Self Care School with you starting with our model:

The 8 Plinths of Self Care

This isn’t a checklist. It’s a compass.
It includes emotional, social, financial, spiritual, and even planetary self care - because we are part of something larger.

Invitation to the Journey

As I reboot this curriculum publicly with facilitators, circles, and a new website coming soon I’d love to hear from you.

What does self-care actually look like in your world right now?
What have you had to unlearn?
What would it take to make it feel sacred again?

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