the really good news
your gift makes it possible for a woman to EAT™ her way to health.
ENGAGE your inner wisdom | ALIGN your choices with your values | TRANSFORM your life
The EAT™ | Your way to health program was created specifically for mission-driven women suffering from burnout.
What does all that mean?
mission-driven
“Mission-driven” can be a somewhat fluffy concept—and we intentionally keep it vague. For us, mission-driven work prioritizes people and planet over profit: it makes the world a better place for everyone.
Yes, it can apply to nonprofits and volunteerism—and also to education (faculty and staff and administration), nursing and other healthcare work, hospice and elder and childcare, social work….
In short, most of those on the pandemic’s front lines qualify in our book!
women
This group is open to those who identify as women of any age.
work
Women work a lot, whether it’s outside the home, from home, or inside the home. Stay-at-home moms have some of the most important mission-driven work there is: raising the next generation to navigate this world we’ve created—and hopefully to be kinder to each other and to Mother Earth than we have been.
burnout
Let’s go straight to the source for this one, the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, Revision 11 (ICD-11):
Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions:
- feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion
- increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job
- and reduced professional efficacy.
While the ICD-11 emphasizes that burnout refers to the working world, let’s face it: the women who show up at work are the same ones who show up at home.
financial need
The pandemic has brought the wealth gap in America into stark relief—and it’s widened it considerably: families with an income of $100,000 or less now face financial difficulties that were previously the province of those with much lower incomes.
And the outsized impact of Covid-19 on Brown and Black bodies, coupled with the continued violence against those bodies, has made historic economic inequality something that can no longer be ignored or swept under the rug if we are to answer the call to “stitch a new garment, one that fits all of humanity and nature.”
I recognize that historic economic inequality exists and is especially oppressive for the marginalized. From the founding of Simply: Health Coaching, an important part of the mission has been to make health coaching affordable for Every Body.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Small Business Restart program, I was able to offer scholarships for the October 2020 cohort of the EAT™, and I would like to be able to continue subsidizing under-resourced women.
Your gift makes health coaching accessible to those most in need.