self led tools 

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Learn how to create more safety in your body so you can lead with more intention in your daily life. All of our courses are made for those who want to take a front seat in their own emotional healing. Receive all the nuggets of wisdom that Lauren and the team at The Simplest Self share during their 1:1 sessions without the time or cash commitment. You do have the capacity, are you ready to step into what healing could look like for you? 

Trauma Informed
Body-Based Tools App

Whether you prefer to ease in with some sort of movement; or perhaps you’d like to start with some foundational nervous system education, there is definitely something here for wherever you’re at right now.

A big intention for this app was to make trauma-informed mental health resources accessible to all. In addition to movement and meditation, you’ll have access to a library of Somatic Resources & Psychoeducation videos.

We've curated a wide range of content for you, including over 50 yoga, meditation and movement practices; Psychoeducation videos, such as Polyvagal 101: An Intro to Working with Your Nervous System to Heal Trauma, The Gut Brain Connection and An Overview of Attachment; A Library of Somatic Resources where you’ll find a number of tools for when you are in any state of the nervous system and you want to learn to build capacity to ride the waves of your emotions; our exclusive programs, 7 Days of Connection and 7 Days of Meditation & Yoga For Beginners which will help lay the groundwork and help you build a foundation for connection; and additional resources, including a list of Regulating Resources, Body Neutral Affirmations & Reminders, a list of movements for when you aren't sure what to do, access my Spotify playlist and more. New content uploaded monthly.

Plant Based Cookbook

plant based, made simple

This 50 something page cookbook includes some of our go-to meals from the past year. These recipes are a cross between Stu’s love for comfort food and my love for nutrient dense foods. My personal favorite is probably the Rice Noodle Salad and Stu loves anything with vegan Cheese Sauce. 

Combining my background in holistic nutrition, intuitive eating, and being plant based myself; in addition to Stu’s 15 years of kitchen experience and creativity-- we have created something pretty magical. 

We hope you enjoy it just as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Embodied Movement: Creating a Safe Relationship with Exercise 

This self paced course will help you examine your current relationship with fitness and learn to listen to the feedback your body provides to create a sustainable, embodied relationship with fitness.

This 9 Module Course helps you to identify and work through your current relationship with fitness by bridging the gap between your nervous system and how you move your body. We talk about how you can cultivate an embodied and sustainable relationship with fitness by working through your current stigma with weight, body image, diet culture and fitness. We then take a look at how our physiology and nervous system impacts our ability to stay consistent with fitness. By the end of the course you will have a greater understanding of how both your emotions and physiology play into creating a sustainable relationship with fitness. And you will have the tools to create a movement routine that works for you, your body, and your lifestyle.

Bite Sized Healing

A self paced course

Ready to connect back to yourself, regulate your emotions, and start to understand that you make sense?

This self-paced course will help walk you through 4 guideposts in your healing journey. Starting with learning to understand the nervous system, the nuance of greeting self-compassion with self-agency, realizing how stress and trauma are stored in the body, and finally, creating and navigating close relationships while supporting your own healing. 
 

Cultivating Safety in the Body

a Trauma Informed Yoga Bundle

This trauma informed yoga bundle offers a variety of 15-45 minute yoga practices to help you create more safety and ease within your body. Practices include both restorative and heat-building flows.

If creating a consistent movement practice has always felt difficult or strained, consider this your invitation to redefine your relationship with it. 

Believe it or not, the relationship we have with movement has the potential to be one of joy, pleasure, and ease. It can also allow us to improve our sleep, energy + mood, and help relieve stress. Once we let go of the body-modifying framework of movement and choose an approach of caring for our overall well-being, we unlock the true magic of movement.

The Inner Critic Workshop

Have you ever stopped and observed the way you talk to yourself?

If you’ve noticed your internal dialogue can be a little harsh, this workshop is for you. We’ve noticed some talk in the mental health space about “silencing” your inner critic. In our experience, trying to silence our parts isn’t really effective, and often results in more resistance and shame.

Through the lens of IFS, all of our parts play a protective role with the intention of keeping us safe. If our parts believe that having a harsh and critical internal dialogue keeps us safe, you can bet it’s going to do everything in its power to maintain that role.

In this workshop, we’re going to explore what it feels like to begin noticing and forming a relationship with the inner critic. The workshop will have both an educational and an experiential component. This will include a brief overview of parts work, some common root causes and core beliefs associated with inner-critic patterns, a somatic practice, and a self-reflective exercise.

 

She welcomed all topics of conversation, from childhood experiences to current relationship roadblocks, and helped me connect all things to presence in body and honoring my intuition. In such a short amount of time Lauren has helped me move mountains. I have started feeding myself, finding alternatives to shutting down when my emotions are elevated, and have found a type of movement that feels good and doesn’t trigger fantasies of weight loss. At the heart of her program is connection, and I cannot recommend this course enough.

 TAYLOR

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"My time working with Lauren was nothing short of incredible. She created the most warm and loving space for me to talk all things body, and I felt safe talking to her about familial diet culture, emotional and physical traumas, present stagnancy, and escapism from my body. "

anonymous

The meditations were golden and freed up space in my mind to be creative. The yoga was chill and so yummy for the body. The modules were filled with content necessary to prime you for the journaling that followed. In 1:1s, I broke down barriers I had let fester for 7 years. Lauren guided each session with curiosity and respect. If you are looking to learn more, to challenge more, and to gain more- The Simplest Self is right for you.

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"Working with Lauren allowed me to process emotions in new ways, unlearn fused thought patterns, and challenge assumptions I had been making for years about my body and food."

The meditations were golden and freed up space in my mind to be creative. The yoga was chill and so yummy for the body. The modules were filled with content necessary to prime you for the journaling that followed. In 1:1s, I broke down barriers I had let fester for 7 years. Lauren guided each session with curiosity and respect. If you are looking to learn more, to challenge more, and to gain more- The Simplest Self is right for you.

ANONYMOUS

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"WORKING WITH LAUREN ALLOWED ME TO PROCESS EMOTIONS IN NEW WAYS, UNLEARN FUSED THOUGHT PATTERNS, AND CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS I HAD BEEN MAKING FOR YEARS ABOUT MY BODY AND FOOD."

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becky

I love who i am inside and out, and I respect my body. I learned how to respect and feel my emotions. I 1000% recommend this to others. This will get you thinking on a deeper level, and will help your personal growth so much. Lauren is so knowledgeable and she always pours her heart into her clients.

"I never thought that I would be where I am now. I went from being a person who had a vision in her head of what she thought she should look like, and I’m not this person who is just loving me for me."

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I love who i am inside and out, and I respect my body. I learned how to respect and feel my emotions. I 1000% recommend this to others. This will get you thinking on a deeper level, and will help your personal growth so much. Lauren is so knowledgeable and she always pours her heart into her clients.

Becky

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"I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD BE WHERE I AM NOW. I WENT FROM BEING A PERSON WHO HAD A VISION IN HER HEAD OF WHAT SHE THOUGHT SHE SHOULD LOOK LIKE, AND I’M NOT THIS PERSON WHO IS JUST LOVING ME FOR ME."

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