Procrastination and Self-Care
Breaking the Shame–Avoidance Loop
Procrastination isn’t always about poor time management or lack of discipline. For those who’ve lived with complex trauma, putting off self-care often comes from survival strategies learned in childhood where needs were ignored, rest was criticized, or being selfless was praised above all else.
In this course, you will explore how self-care procrastination is tied to nervous system responses like fight, flight, or freeze, and how shame-based beliefs can make even small acts of care feel unsafe or selfish. Through Andrea’s story, reflection questions, and somatic practices, you’ll learn to recognize these patterns, interrupt the shame–avoidance cycle, and begin building a self-care identity that feels safe and sustainable.
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Course Curriculum
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Welcome Video
Introduction
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Putting off basic care often isn’t laziness—it’s the result of old patterns where needs were ignored or criticized. This lesson helps you trace those roots, understand why self-care feels unsafe, and begin to see your needs as valid.
Lesson • Journal • Video
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Self-care can trigger guilt or shame before it even begins, leading to avoidance that only deepens the cycle. Here you’ll learn how this loop forms, where it started, and how small acts of compassion can begin to break it.
Lesson • Journal • Video
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Avoiding care often feels protective, but it leaves you depleted. This lesson explores how gentle, consistent acts of nurturance can retrain your nervous system to experience self-care as safe and supportive.
Lesson • Journal • Video
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For many, identity has been shaped around self-neglect and over-giving. This module shows how to build a new identity rooted in valuing your own needs, so self-care becomes a natural part of who you are.
Lesson • Journal • Video
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Sustainable self-care doesn’t mean perfection—it means returning after setbacks with gentleness. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to replace harsh self-criticism with realistic course corrections and build rhythms that last.
Lesson • Journal • Video
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This section gathers supportive tools to strengthen what you’ve learned. It includes books, talks, courses, music, poems, somatic practices, creative therapies, and community supports—all designed to help you integrate self-care with compassion and sustainability.
