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The CARE Framework™

A guide to sustainability self-care and empowered living

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You’re wired to care for everyone else — but what happens when that care leaves you drained, overlooked, or overwhelmed?

 

The CARE Framework™ is a practical, heart-centered approach to help you reclaim your time, protect your energy, and build a more sustainable rhythm of care — starting with you.

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Designed for high-achieving women, overdoers, and those

struggling to put themselves on their own agenda, this framework helps you shift from burnout to balance using four key pillars:

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• Create Boundaries – Protect your time, energy, and peace with clarity and consistency.

• Ask for Help – Practice empowered vulnerability by recognizing your limits and naming what you need.

• Replenish Yourself – Prioritize restoration and build rhythms of care that nourish your body, mind, and spirit.

• Expand Energy Awareness – Notice what fuels you and what drains you — and make choices that honor your capacity.

 

The CARE Framework™ doesn’t ask you to do more. It helps you do different — so you can live and lead from a place of wholeness instead of depletion.

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Create Boundaries - Healthy boundaries protect your time, energy and well-being

  • Awareness: Identify your needs and your limitations.

  • Clarity: Be clear with your needs – the more clear and concise you are with your boundaries, the easier it is for others to respect them.

  • Consistency – Stick to your guns and do not waver so that you can be respected.

 

Ask for help – Asking for support is a strength, not a weakness

  • Acceptance: Acknowledge that you can’t (and shouldn’t) do it all alone.

  • Clarity: Be clear and specific about what support you need.

  • Confidence: Communication with confidence – stand in what you need.

 

Replenish yourself – Restoration is not optional: it’s essential

  • Honesty: Admit when you’re depleted and need a break.

  • Intention: Build self-care into your daily rhythm on purpose.

  • Compassion: Treat yourself with the same grace you offer to others.

 

Expand energy awareness – Know where your energy is going and why it matters

  • Awareness: Tune into your energy patterns and of the energy of those around you.

  • Balance: Evaluate the flow of your energy (inputs and outputs) – what drains you vs. what fuels you.

  • Cultivation: Develop habits and boundaries that preserve and protect your energy.

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