Bringing Compassion Back to Self-Care
An interactive workshop inviting you to rethink self-care through kindness, compassion, and a more human understanding of wellbeing.
Self-care is meant to help us feel better. Yet for many of us, it has increasingly become another area of pressure, something we should be doing “properly,” keeping up with, or fixing ourselves through.
This interactive workshop offers a different way in.
Led by wellbeing writer, podcaster and coach Claire Fitzsimmons, this session invites you to explore what wellbeing looks like when it’s rooted in kindness, compassion, and curiosity rather than self-improvement or constant striving. Instead of asking what needs to change, we’ll gently explore what needs care.
Through guided reflection, conversation, and simple, accessible exercises, you’ll be supported to rethink your relationship with self-care itself, widening it beyond routines, rules, or trends, and reconnecting it to the very real experience of being a person in the world today.
This workshop is for anyone who feels overwhelmed by wellbeing advice, disconnected from themselves, or just unsure whether the way they’ve been taught to “look after themselves” actually works for them.
You’ll leave with:
A more compassionate understanding of what self-care can be
Greater clarity about what supports your emotional and mental wellbeing
Reflections and ideas you can return to in everyday life
A sense of self-trust that doesn’t rely on doing more or being better
As part of the Frome Kindness Festival, this workshop explores kindness as something we can practise inwardly as well as outwardly. Because extending kindness to ourselves isn’t indulgent or selfish, it’s often the foundation that allows us to meet the world, and each other, with more care.
ABOUT CLAIRE FITZIMMONS
Claire Fitzsimmons is the co-founder of If Lost, Start Here, a Somerset-based wellbeing company on a mission to help people get to a better place. As an ICF Associate Certified Coach and a certified emotions coaching practitioner, Claire works with women navigating change, burnout, emotional overwhelm or simply a sense of feeling stuck. Her coaching sessions help people untangle what they’re feeling, find clarity, and build a sustainable wellbeing practice that fits who they are now.
Claire’s writing on mental health, emotions and midlife wellbeing has appeared in Happiful, Breathe, The Simple Things, and others. She’s also been included in features in Stylist, Red, and Psychologies.
Claire is the host of the podcast A Thought I Kept. Each week she speaks with guests from across creative, academic, business and wellbeing fields about the ideas that last a lifetime
Claire was also Regional Finalist for Best Wellbeing Specialist in Dorset, Somerset & Bristol for The Muddy Stilettos Awards 2025
Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifloststarthere/
A Thought I Kept: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521342
Substack More Good Days for more ways to well.
Newsletter: https://iflost.myflodesk.com/ge9axhtvis
LOCATION
Rook Lane Chapel, BA11 1DN