Summer 2021, I was lucky enough to receive a grant to fund an online self-compassion program for women that I called TEND HER. My motivation for this grant came from the research I was reading about women’s mental well being during the pandemic and how they were twice as likely to suffer depression and anxiety than their male counterparts.
Additionally, I had spent the last year listening to the challenges of women in my private practice. And admittedly, I too had been suffering from overwhelm.
In the grant, I asked for funding for 500 women (which at the time felt like high hopes).
Within 5 hours of putting a message out on my personal FaceBook page about TEND HER, we had reached 500 participants!
I reached out to my grant funder to see if we could extend it to 1000 women, and within 5 days, 1000 women had registered for the class.
It was clear a chord had been struck!
While we worked with self-compassion during the first TEND HER, the 2.0 version will explore how women can return to themselves and reclaim their heart, body, and intuition.
Women are often primary caregivers, and extend a lot of energy toward others. This program will help women move inward to reclaim their instincts, rhythms, body and inner knowing.