Self Care 2012 Program

Our bod­ies are our gar­dens to which our wills are gardeners.

~ William Shakespeare

Self Care.  Strange phrase really.  Shouldn’t it be a given that we know how to take care of our­selves?  I know I have my areas of neglect, those areas that when ignored long enough turn into a pain in my body or maybe a stop me in my tracks sick­ness.  Our bod­ies know best, yet we still ignore it.

My inten­tion this year is: mindfully dif­fer­ent and mind­fully dif­fer­ent with my own self care.  I’m pre­sent­ing this offer­ing to you, to let you decide, to see if it speaks to you and if you feel it’s some­thing you need also.

What is self-care and why is it important?

I have expe­ri­enced that when I don’t put myself first and my own care ahead of oth­ers that EVERYTHING around me starts to suf­fer.  This includes how I am able to sup­port those that mat­ter to me most.  Self care is impor­tant for you.  Tak­ing care of your­self lets you become a big­ger ben­e­fit to those who are impor­tant in your life.  You can define it in a way that works for you, but tak­ing care of your­self let’s you take care of others.

Offer­ing Name

SelfCare2012: A per­sonal initiative

Offer­ing Purpose

To bring focus to your per­sonal self-care in 2012, with a sup­port­ive, cre­ative and nurturing group.

Launch Date

Jan­u­ary 6, 2012

Start Date

Jan­u­ary 17, 2012

Price

89USD (the total of my birth­day 1.17.71) for the whole year) Pay­ments processed through Pay­Pal (all cur­ren­cies and credit cards accepted even if you don’t have a Pay­pal account)

You can also choose a two pay option of 44.50 (30 days apart)

When you can get in

Reg­is­tra­tion is open, right now.

Sign up closes on Jan­u­ary 15, 2012 at 9pm Pacific or when we reach 75 peo­ple, whichever comes first

What is It?

My per­sonal offer­ing to my read­ers.  One of my ini­tia­tives for 2012 is Self-Care and I believe many of you feel the need for the same.  This will be a safe envi­ron­ment for all of us to explore and learn self-care together.  Par­tic­i­pants in SelfCare2012 will have pri­or­ity access to my inbox (you will receive a spe­cial email address) and the offer­ing is lim­ited to 75 peo­ple.   I will also open a spe­cial & pri­vate Google+ cir­cle for par­tic­i­pants.  If you are unsure about Google+ or haven’t heard of it, I will walk you through the sign up process.

What you get

A monthly exer­cise, start­ing in Feb­ru­ary 2012.  This will emailed in the first week of each month and will be our theme for the month.  Each week dur­ing the month I will send out check-in emails, ques­tions to get you think­ing as well as offer oppor­tu­ni­ties to meet and dis­cuss together online. If I have resources to share I will dur­ing the month.  You are able to ask ques­tions any time via email or through the pri­vate cir­cle on Google+

The weeks will be a time of reflec­tion and thought and while we will com­mu­ni­cate and share over the week, you will no receive any emails for the pro­gram from me dur­ing this time.  New mes­sages will be sent on Mon­days, Wednes­days or Fridays.

Each mes­sage will have my per­sonal expe­ri­ences, what I’m doing and how I’m exper­i­ment­ing with what works.  I will also share from the par­tic­i­pants if I receive an email and the par­tic­i­pant agrees to let me share.

Some of the top­ics covered

While these top­ics can and will likely evolved dur­ing the course of the pro­gram depend­ing on the par­tic­i­pants needs here is an exam­ple of a few of the areas we’ll cover

• Stop the depri­va­tion — learn how to build an “No List” and stop the deprivation
• Mir­ror, Mir­ror — learn the impor­tance of pos­i­tive self-talk.  We’ll prac­tice it all month
• Let­ting Go — you have a way of doing things and so do oth­ers, embrace new ways of doing things by let­ting go
• Health — we’ll spend a month focus­ing on our health
• Anger — we’ll learn how to deal with any anger and how to release it
• Being Sen­si­tive — Learn how to pro­tect our­selves not mat­ter how sen­si­tive you might be