For women who have spent so much time taking care of everyone else
This is your opportunity to better understand why you've lost sight of yourself—and how to become part of your own life again
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
You hide in the bathroom for five minutes just to get a moment of peace.
Your coffee is always cold because someone else needed something first.
When someone asks, "What do you need?" your mind goes completely blank.
You love the people in your life, but lately it feels like everyone needs something from you.
Somewhere along the way, you stopped paying attention to yourself.
If you're nodding your head right now, you're not alone.
WHERE DO YOU START?
It Starts With You helps you understand the connection between:
❤️ Thoughts
❤️ Emotions
❤️ Behaviors
❤️ Beliefs
Through guided learning, reflective journaling, and creative doodling exercises, you'll begin creating lasting change from the inside out
Lasting change doesn't begin by changing everything around you—it begins by understanding what's happening within you.
Choose Yourself Today
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What You’ll Gain
🔴 Understand the patterns that keep you stuck
🔴 Learn practical tools to navigate stress and overwhelm
🔴 Develop greater self-awareness and self-compassion
🔴 Respond more intentionally instead of reacting automatically
🔴 Build a stronger connection to yourself and what you truly need
It Starts With You isn't about becoming someone new—it's about understanding who you've been all along.
NOTICE - REFLECT - RECONNECT - CHOOSE
Your 4-Week Journey
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WEEK 1: WHY IT FEELS SO HARD TO CHANGE
Understanding the human brain and emotional shfits.
Discover the science behind why emotional shifts can feel so difficult and how the brain is wired for survival, not change. Learn how to gently rewire it using awareness, safety, and curiosity. This session lays the foundation for sustainable emotional growth.
Understand why emotional change can feel uncomfortable or even threatening.
Recognize how the brain defaults to old patterns for safety.
Begin noticing your own emotional habits with more curiosity and less judgment.
Feel empowered to take the first step toward intentional emotional shifts.
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WEEK 2: EMOTIONS 101 - COVERING THE BASICS
Understanding what you feel and why it matters.
Gain a fresh understanding of what emotions truly are, why they matter, and how they work in the body and brain. We’ll explore how avoiding emotions creates tension — and how facing them with compassion can unlock clarity, energy, and inner peace.
See emotions as messengers that guide your choices and behavior.
Understand how unprocessed emotions can build up in the body.
Feel more confident naming and expressing what you feel.
Practice safe, healthy ways to release emotional pressure.
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WEEK 3: THE EQUATION OF EMOTIONS
A formula to help us make sense of our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Learn how your thoughts — not your circumstances — create your emotional experience. Using a simple equation, you’ll discover how to separate the facts from the story you’re telling yourself, and begin shifting your mindset to create more empowering outcomes.
Discover the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
Learn to challenge and reframe unhelpful stories you tell yourself.
Use the emotion equation to shift how you respond to challenges.
Begin practicing emotional responsibility instead of emotional reactivity.
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WEEK 4: EMOTIONAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
The guidance system to help you navigate your life.
Explore how the EGPS helps us tune into our feelings as signals, not problems. It guides us toward what we need, what matters to us, and what our emotions are trying to tell us.
Recognize the shift from lower emotions like shame to higher ones like joy.
Release the pressure to “feel great” and embrace steady emotional shifts.
Learn to move up the emotional scale with small, intentional steps.
Use your feelings to navigate decisions and create emotional well-being.
Give To Yourself What You Give To Others So Freely
Join It Starts With You and take your first step back to YOU — the woman you’ve been missing
FAQs
Got questions? We’ve got you covered.
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Not at all! This course is about your private and personal expression of emotions by taking it to the page. NO perfection here. Doodling is simply a creative way to explore emotions and reconnect with yourself. Stick figures, scribbles, and messy lines are all welcome here.
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You’ll need a journal book, notebook, or just some loose-leaf paper, a pen or pencil, and any simple art supplies you have on hand — colored, pencils, markers, or even crayons. Use whatever you have on hand. I have had participants just use paper and a pencil!
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This workshop is designed with busy caregivers in mind. Each live session is about 60 minutes, and all activities can be done at your own pace. This is not intended to add more stress to your day!
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No problem! All live sessions are recorded and shared within a day or two. You’ll still get full access to the lessons and move through them when your schedule allows.
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No, It Starts With You is not therapy. It’s a guided self-discovery workshop that supports emotional awareness and self-compassion. While it may feel healing, it’s not a substitute for professional mental health care.
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Great question! It Starts With You is a shorter, more playful introduction to emotional awareness using creative journaling. Calm Without Collapse is an 8-week deep dive that includes more coaching, education, and reflective work around your patterns, beliefs, and emotional needs.
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You can register directly from the workshop page and enter your information as requested. You’ll be notified as soon as spots open up.
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Life happens. If you're unable to attend a live session, don't worry—all sessions will be recorded and available to members so you can watch them at your convenience and revisit the material whenever you need it.