Designed for women's leadership initiatives, ERGs, and high-potential programs
You've heard the term "self-care." You probably even know a little bit about it. You know you should prioritize it more. You add it to your offensively long to-do list, reassuring yourself that you will get to it, only to have it cascade to the very bottom again.
You know you should make healthy decisions. That your mental and physical health are important.
But when it comes to self-care, most of us are asleep.
Lulled into complacency by the deluded promise that tomorrow will be different. That is, until a massive personal tragedy or crisis wakes us up and scares the hell out of us.
Katie McDonald believes it doesn't have to be that way.
If you're ready to stop sleepwalking (and you are), this speech will hit you like a sound-barrier-shattering alarm clock with a busted snooze button.
You'll learn how to liberate yourself from destructive, self-sacrificing habits by being deLIBERATE in your self-care. This speech will challenge you to take action in your own life—immediately—and give you the tools you need to do it.
What if you stopped apologizing and started advocating for yourself?
Aren't you curious what life would be like when you are truly nourished by your habits and mindset? When you walk out of this speech, you'll emerge refreshed, alive with purpose and a contagious passion to show up for yourself the way you show up for everyone else.
attendees learn:
Why do we expect so much of ourselves in every area of our lives except self-care, where somehow mediocrity is tolerated?
Self-care is a duty. It's our responsibility to bring our most evolved selves to the table. In telling ourselves we don't have permission and we are too busy, we have become damsels in distress. But only we can rescue ourselves. We are the knights in shining armor we've been waiting for. Suit up.
Self-care is an act of defiance in a society conditioning us to be martyrs and saints. Saying yes to ourselves and our legitimate needs must mean saying no to someone else. And we all know good girls don't say no. If they do, they're guilty. Naughty even.
We honorably over-function for everyone else and in doing so, we underperform for ourselves. Our compulsion to serve is as primal as a bull facing a red flag. And God it feels good. Until it doesn't. The superhero cape chokes us, strangling our needs, depriving us of oxygen.
We cannot resist someone in need unless that someone is us.
So we deny our right to self-care and in doing so, make us the ones in need of rescue.
Katie doesn't do empowerment theater. She does truth-telling. This isn't a feel-good pep talk that everyone forgets by Monday. It's a paradigm shift that challenges deeply held beliefs about women's roles, responsibilities, and right to their own attention.
Katie speaks from her own experience of self-sacrifice nearly killing her. She knows what it's like to believe everyone else's needs matter more. To be drowning in "too muchness" while feeling like you're not enough.
This keynote gives women permission to rescue themselves. And the tools to actually do it.
