A simple, calm orientation to the Make Self Care Simple approach.
Welcome — I’m so glad you’re here
If you’ve landed here, you may be thinking: “This makes sense… but how does it all fit together?”
Make Self Care Simple isn’t more health advice. It’s a calm, personalised system that helps you understand how your body responds — so you can stop guessing and start noticing what genuinely helps.
The Make Self-Care Simple System
Everything here works through three connected parts:
The Blog
A free library of easy, follow-along self-care challenges you can explore at your own pace.
The Toolkit
A simple, step-by-step process that shows you how to:
find a personal starting point
choose one supportive practice
listen for real feedback from your body
The Community
A quiet, supportive space where you don’t have to do this alone — offering shared perspective, encouragement, and a place to stay connected while you learn.
You can explore any part on its own. But together, they make it much easier to understand what’s actually helping your body.
Is This Likely to Help You?
Make Self Care Simple is especially helpful if you:
you try something new, feel hopeful… then stop because you can’t tell if it’s helping
results feel slow, unpredictable, or non-existent, even when you’re doing “the right things”
advice seems to work for other people, but not for your body
your body feels over-reactive, unresponsive, or hard to read
you keep starting and stopping because there’s no clear feedback to guide you
you find yourself chasing more information, hoping this will be the missing piece
you’re tired of guessing — and want a way to understand what your body is actually asking for
Being healthy isn’t always easy — but it can be made simple.
Where Most People Begin
If you’re new, the best place to start is the free Self-Care Toolkit.
Start Here – Discover the Missing Piece That Helps Your Body Finally Respond
You’ve tried so many things to feel better… yet nothing seems to work.
If you’re here, you’ve probably:
taken the supplements
changed the foods
followed the expert advice
tried routines and plans
worked on your mindset
done “all the right things”
…yet your body still isn’t responding the way you hoped.
You start to wonder:
“What am I missing?” “Why doesn’t my body respond like other people’s?” “Is something wrong with me?”
I want you to know this —
it’s not you. And it’s not your effort. You’re not doing anything wrong.
You simply haven’t been shown the piece that makes everything else work.
I’m so glad you’re here.
The Missing Piece: Everyday Support Your Body Can Actually Use
Most people are taught to improve their health by adding more:
more advice
more changes
more information
more routines
more “shoulds”
But none of these help if they aren’t what your body truly needs.
That’s the real missing piece: personalised self-care that works with your body instead of against it.
Not someone else’s routine. Not a plan that worked for a friend. Not a list of rules to follow.
But simple, everyday care that matches your energy, your patterns, and your real-life needs.
Your body isn’t waiting for a perfect plan — it’s waiting for the right kind of support.
Support that respects:
its signals
its timing
its limits
its natural intelligence
And when you begin offering that kind of support — even in the smallest ways — everything finally starts to make sense.
A New Way to Begin
Instead of forcing complicated plans, you begin with something far more natural:
A small, doable self-care practice that gives your body space to respond.
These are the self-care challenges you’ll find throughout the blog — gentle experiments that help you feel what truly supports your body.
Not to fix. Not to push. Not to “get it right.”
But to gently listen, respond, and support your body in a way that feels possible today.
As you continue, you begin to notice:
what eases your system
what restores you
what drains you
what feels grounding
what your body quietly appreciates
You don’t need a complicated method or a big plan. You just need a simple way to recognise what’s actually working for your body — and what isn’t.
That clarity builds slowly, naturally, and in its own time
Why This Helps When Nothing Else Has
Because trying harder doesn’t help a body that’s already overwhelmed.
Because your body isn’t a machine — it’s aware, responsive, and constantly communicating what it needs.
Because when you stop guessing, small shifts become visible.
Because clarity grows quietly when you’re not pushing.
And because once your body finally feels supported in the right way, the things you’re already doing begin to work better.
This isn’t instant transformation. It’s steady, living clarity — a relationship you build with yourself.
Your First Step: The Free Self-Care Start-Up Toolkit
The Free Start-Up Toolkit shows you exactly how to choose and complete your first self-care challenge — step by step, at your own pace.
A calm, clear way to begin your journey in a way your body can truly respond to.
Inside, you’ll quickly discover how to:
🌿 Find your personal starting point so you begin in a way your body is genuinely ready for.
🌿 Choose the right first self-care challenge matched to your energy, needs, and real-life situation.
🌿 Listen to your body from the very first step so you can notice what’s helping (and what isn’t) without overwhelm.
🌿 Understand the simple MSS process so you know how to begin in a way that actually leads to results.
🌿 Feel confident and prepared to start your first challenge with a gentle rhythm you can follow over the weekend and begin on Monday with clarity and ease.
You can complete the Toolkit in a relaxed afternoon or over a calm weekend, with short step-by-step videos and simple printables to guide you.
There’s nothing to push through. You simply begin.
If you find it hard to stay with the process on your own, there’s also a free, private community where you can explore this alongside others.
It’s a quiet, supportive space to share reflections, gain perspective, and stay connected as you learn what your body responds to — without pressure or comparison.
If you’d like a little more reassurance before you begin, you can read why gentle self-care challenges work so well — it’s a calming, encouraging explanation of the approach.
The content shared on Make Self Care Simple is for general information and personal growth only. I’m no longer working as a practitioner, and the ideas shared here are not medical advice or a substitute for professional care.
Everything you read here is designed to help you explore gentle, everyday self-care practices that support your overall well-being — but please always consult your qualified health professional before making any major changes to your lifestyle, diet, or treatment.
Your body is unique, and only you (with the right support) can decide what feels right for you.
The remedies and routines that had worked beautifully for years suddenly… didn’t.
My body was facing a new challenge — and I needed a new way to support it.
So I began exploring again. Not dramatic changes. Just small, gentle practices I could actually manage.
Some helped. Some didn’t. But all of them taught me something.
Slowly, a pattern emerged — and the list of practices that genuinely supported me became my Menu of Self-Care.
It changed everything about how I approach my wellbeing.
A Different Kind of Self-Care
Most self-care advice focuses on what you should do:
drink more water
meditate
move more
journal
stretch
eat better
Good ideas… but not necessarily your ideas.
Your Menu of Self-Care is different.
It’s a living list of practices your own body has “approved” — because you’ve tried them, felt the difference, and know they truly support you.
It grows with you. It changes with your seasons. It becomes clearer the more you listen.
And best of all?
It removes the pressure to copy anyone else.
This way of working with a self-care menu comes from a quieter, more intuitive approach to self-care — one that focuses on listening to the body rather than following fixed routines. If it’s helpful, I’ve written more about that perspective here.
How the Menu Fits into the MSS Approach
Your wellbeing is shaped by many layers — your body, your emotions, your energy, your habits, your beliefs.
That’s why Make Self Care Simple works with four pathways:
Practical – grounding daily care that supports your physical systems
Nourish – food and rhythms that replenish you
Align & Uplift – short practices that lift mood & energy
Mindcraft – mindset shifts that support consistency
You don’t need all four at once. And you don’t need to figure them out alone.
Each gentle challenge helps you explore one pathway at a time — giving you the clarity your body hasn’t been able to give you in the overwhelm of “trying everything.”
Over time, these small insights naturally become your Menu of Self-Care.
This is what I know works for my body
Your Menu Doesn’t Need to Be Perfect
You don’t need the perfect template (yet). Or the perfect plan. Or the perfect routine.
All you need is a place to start noticing:
what feels supportive
what feels draining
what feels neutral
This alone begins reconnecting you with your own internal wisdom.
But if you’d like your Menu to truly work — to be clear, reliable, and personalised — the way you begin makes all the difference.
Which leads to…
Why Your Menu Matters
When self-care becomes something you choose (not something you “should” do), everything shifts.
You begin to see what genuinely helps you. You stop copying routines that don’t fit. You trust your own signals. You spend less time guessing — and more time responding.
Your Menu of Self-Care becomes:
a reference
a guide
a source of confidence
and a quiet reminder of what works
It’s not a to-do list. It’s a relationship.
Ready to Create Your Menu? Start Here.
Creating a Menu is simple — but the way you start matters. That first step is what determines whether you gain clarity… or get lost in overwhelm again.
That’s why I created the Free Self-Care Start-Up Toolkit.
It gently guides you through:
🌿 Understanding what your body needs first 🌿 Choosing the right first self-care challenge 🌿 Noticing your body’s feedback with clarity 🌿 Beginning your Menu with confidence — not confusion
It’s the essential “before” step most people skip… and the reason their self-care never sticks.
A private, supportive space to explore self-care alongside others — at your own pace.
If you’re here, something about this quieter, more personalised approach has probably resonated.
Many people find self-care difficult not because they lack information, but because their body doesn’t respond clearly — or responds in ways that are hard to interpret. When you’re learning to listen more closely, doing it alone can feel isolating. Doubt creeps in. You start to wonder if anything is actually helping.
This community exists to change that experience.
People join not because they want to share more — but because illness and uncertainty can quietly make life feel smaller and lonelier.
It’s a calm, private space — away from social media noise, pressure, and performance — where you can explore self-care alongside others who are also learning to listen to their bodies.
Why community helps
When your body doesn’t feel well, everyday life often shrinks. You cancel plans. You stop doing things you enjoy. You spend more time alone — not by choice, but because your energy, symptoms, or uncertainty make it harder to engage.
Over time, that isolation can quietly turn into doubt. You start to wonder whether you’re doing this wrong… or whether anything is really helping at all.
Learning to recognise feedback from your body is a skill most of us were never taught. Seeing how others notice patterns, respond to setbacks, or stay with small practices often brings clarity sooner — and helps soften the self-doubt that can arise when you’re figuring this out on your own.
This space is a room you can return to when uncertainty or everyday life gets in the way. You don’t need to have the answers. You don’t need to be doing it “right.”
You’re welcome exactly as you are.
What you’ll find inside
This free community offers a gentle place to:
follow along with the Self-Care Toolkit in your own time
share small reflections or questions, if and when it feels right
give and receive quiet encouragement
or simply read and stay connected
There’s no pressure to post, no expectation to keep up, and no “right” way to take part. Life is messy — this space is designed to fit around that.
A gentle invitation
If exploring self-care alongside others feels supportive right now, you’re very welcome to join the free community.
And if you’d prefer to continue quietly through the blog and newsletter, that’s absolutely fine too. Both paths are valid here.
