The Self Love Academy/A Path to Self Love
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  • €475 or 3 monthly payments of €160

A Path To Self Love - An embodied journey home to your essence

A 9‑Week Journey to Reclaim Your Presence, Self‑Trust & Inner Freedom

This isn’t just a course — it’s a homecoming.

A poetic, body-based immersion into the truth of who you are.
Rooted in nervous system safety, movement, spoken word, and soul-deep reflection, this journey invites you to:

  • release survival patterns

  • reconnect with your body

  • remember your inner voice

You’ll move through 9 carefully designed modules — beginning with deep presence and moving through shadow, resistance, self-trust, boundaries, embodied action, and true nourishment.

We close with a powerful integration ritual to seal your transformation


So you don’t just learn self-love… you become it.

🔥 Why this path?

Most of us were never taught how to truly love ourselves.

We learned to survive — to perform, to please, to push through — but not to feel, to rest, or to trust our inner knowing. We adapted to a world that praised achievement over aliveness, and now many of us are left disconnected, depleted…
Or even burnt out.

Maybe you’ve been there too:
Exhausted. Numb. Going through the motions.
Feeling like your life belongs to everyone but you.

A Path to Self Love is a radical reclaiming of your inner world.
Not a quick fix. Not another productivity hack.
But a slow, sacred return to your own truth.

This program is for those who are done betraying themselves,
who are ready to stop abandoning their needs,
and who long to live from wholeness, softness and strength.

We don’t fight the old.
We become the new.

A different kind of self-love journey. Is this for you?

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For whom is this program?

This program is for you if...

  • You feel emotionally exhausted or disconnected, even if life looks “successful” from the outside

  • You’re craving a deeper sense of inner calm, clarity and connection

  • You’re tired of the inner critic, the performing, the pleasing – and want to come home to yourself

  • You long to trust your body, your boundaries and your inner voice again

  • You’ve done personal development or therapy, but something still feels missing — the embodiment & the integration

This is not just a course.
It’s a sacred journey of remembrance, reclamation, and rooted self-leadership.

💫 Come as you are.
You don’t need to be “healed” to begin — only willing to turn inward.

"A gentle macro shot of two dew-covered ferns unfolding, symbolizing delicate transformation, support and organic self-growth."

What you’ll receive?

This program offers you a blueprint for deep self-healing and inner leadership — so you no longer outsource your well-being, but understand how to walk yourself home.

You’ll receive:

  • 9 poetic modules, with teachings, somatic practices, journaling prompts and spoken word

  • Lifetime access to all content — move at your own pace

  • Optional 1-on-1 coaching for personal guidance

  • An embodied approach — raw, real, nervous-system safe self-love

  • Language your heart remembers — to meet yourself, gently and truly

  • Clarity and practical tools to start healing yourself from the inside out

📖 On the bottom of this page, you’ll find the full table of content with a few preview lessons

"A serene forest path dappled in daylight, leading into soft green shadows — representing a soulful, grounded journey inward."

What makes this different?

Most self-love programs try to fix you.
This one helps you peel back the layers that covered your essence — so you can return home.

We don’t chase healing like a goal.
We slow down. Listen in.
And make space for the truth already inside.

No bypassing. No pushing. No pressure.
Just clarity, depth and real embodiment.

You’ll receive:

  • A clear framework for inner transformation

  • A reminder that healing is something to meet, not master

  • A space to reclaim your own blueprint — and trust your inner knowing

💗 This is a love revolution from the inside out. Unpolished. Unapologetic. Unshaming.

How this journey unfolds

This isn’t a binge-learning course. It’s a slow, steady return to your Self.

You’ll receive one module per week,
so you have time to integrate each part of the journey
– in your body, your nervous system, your daily life.

Each module includes:

  • Poetic teachings to shift your perspective

  • Somatic practices to ground the insights

  • Journaling prompts to deepen awareness

  • Spoken word meditations that reach your heart

You’ll have ongoing access to all content.
No time pressure. No expiry date planned.
You can revisit the practices and teachings whenever you need them most.

This journey meets you where you are – and helps you walk yourself home, one breath at a time.

Self-love coach and trauma-informed facilitator smiling confidently in a black lace top, standing against a reflective wall — expert in embodied healing and nervous system regulation.

Meet your guide

Liesbet De Rouck

Trauma-informed coach, facilitator, spoken word artist, and lifelong seeker of what it means to live in truth.

I wasn’t always living this way.

For over 25 years, I worked in the corporate world — navigating boardrooms, deadlines, and decisions that often didn’t align with my inner compass.
I knew things. I felt things. About people, about systems, about what was needed.
But my intuition was often questioned. Suppressed. Dismissed.
And so, over time, I learned to override it — until I started to forget the sound of my own voice.

It left me burnt out. Frustrated. Wondering if I was the problem.

And yet, deep down, I knew there had to be another way.

Over the last 22 years, I’ve walked a path of personal healing and self-leadership.
I’ve studied trauma, somatics, systemic work, meditation, NLP, breathwork, embodiment, and nervous system regulation.
I’ve sat in silence, danced through rage, and cried myself home.

This program is the integration of that journey.
It’s the blueprint I wish I had — not to escape myself, but to come back in.
To reclaim the parts I exiled.
To stop blaming.
To start choosing.
To interrupt generational cycles, not just in theory, but in practice.

Because this isn’t just about you.
It’s about the system we’re all part of.
And if we want to see something new in the world,
we need to be something new in the world.

This is my offering.
Not from a pedestal, but from a place of deep remembering.
Let’s walk each other home.

Contents

Welcome Message

Start here. This video welcomes you into the journey — offering a gentle overview of what to expect, how each session is structured, and how to move through the program at your own pace. You’ll also receive tips for getting the most out of the practices, and a heartfelt reminder: you don’t need fixing — you’re coming home to yourself.

Welcome to the course message
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Session 1: Coming Back to Presence

We begin our journey with the one thing we all long for — presence.
But presence isn't just a state of being. It's a choice. A return. A remembering.

  • In Part 1, we explore why we leave ourselves — the early imprints, survival strategies, and unconscious patterns that pull us into overthinking, pleasing, fixing, or fleeing. We name the habits that keep us out of our own lives.

  • In Part 2, we redefine mindfulness — not as a spiritual ideal, but as a deep, embodied willingness to stay. To feel. To slow down. We unravel the myths of being “zen” and instead open to what’s real.

  • In Part 3, we get practical. What does it actually mean to come back? To land in the body? To pause the inner storm and root into now? Through gentle exercises and reflection, we begin to build our muscle of presence — the foundation for everything to come.

This session is your invitation to return to yourself.
Not in perfection. In honesty.
Again and again.

S1 🌱 Opening – Coming Back to Presence
S1 P1 🌿 Part 1 – Why We Leave Ourselves
S1 P1 Reflection Journaling ex
S1 P2 🌬 What mindfulness really is
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S1 P2 Reflection and Journaling ex
S1 P3 💔 How we lose contact
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S1 P3 🕯 How We Return & Reflection
S1 P3 Spoken word You are not your thoughts
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Session 2: Learning to Feel – From Defense to Deep Presence

What if feeling wasn't the problem — but the path?

In this session, we explore the tender and often terrifying art of feeling.
Not analyzing. Not fixing. Not escaping.
But staying — with what is.

  • In Part 1, we uncover the Three Layers of Defense we all build to avoid pain: fear, false hope, and denial. These are not flaws — they are survival strategies. But they also keep us distant from ourselves. Recognizing these patterns is the first step in reclaiming our aliveness.

  • In Part 2, we practice Tonglen — a powerful and poetic method to breathe with discomfort instead of resisting it. We learn to make space for what we've long rejected. To soften, rather than fight.

  • In Part 3, we move toward radical acceptance — not resignation, but the deep exhale of coming home to what’s true. We discover that real connection with ourselves begins where the fight ends.

This session is about re-learning the language of your body,
the truth in your chest,
the quiet wisdom that arises when you finally stop running

S2 🧘 Opening – Learning to Feel: From Defense to Deep Presence
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S2 P1 🧱 The three layers of defense
S1 P1 🕯 Reflection Practice: Meeting the Wall with Kindness
S2 P2 Learning to Feel: The Practice of Tonglen
S2 P2 🌾 A Story of the Breath ✨ Why Practice Tonglen?
S2 P2 🧘 Practice: Tonglen for the Self & Others
S2 P3 💗 Saying Yes: True Acceptance
S2 P3 ✍️ Reflection – Learning to Stay
S2 P3 🎤 Reflective Spoken Word – “The Wall and the Breath”

Session 3: The Inner Critic – When Survival Becomes Self-Sabotage

There’s a voice inside.
Sharp. Critical. Demanding.
Telling you you’re not enough, not lovable, not safe unless you prove yourself.

This is the inner critic — and it wasn’t born to hurt you.
It was born to protect you.

In Part 1, we explore the origin and function of this voice. How early pain, rejection, or emotional neglect can evolve into internalized self-attack. We trace its roots — not to punish it, but to understand.

In Part 2, we dive into the layers beneath: shame, guilt, and protective mechanisms. We see how the critic often steps in where tenderness was never met, and how it tries to control the chaos it once couldn’t bear.

In Part 3, we begin the work of transformation. Not silencing the critic, but turning toward it — with clarity and compassion. We practice befriending the part of us that learned to survive through self-sabotage… and teach it how to become an inner ally.

This session is about reclaiming your voice —
and rewriting the story you tell yourself about who you are.

S3 🌀 Opening – The Inner Critic: When Survival Becomes Self-Sabotage
S3 P1 Meeting the voice within
S3 P1 🧠 The Function of the Inner Critic 😔 Shame & Guilt: The Emotional Fuel
S3 P1 🔄 The Shame Loop 🧭 From Critic to Compassion Refl ex
S3 P2 🌿 From Inner Critic to Inner Ally
S3 P2 🌿 Meet Your Inner Critic - Self Assessment
S3 P2 💌 Bonus Reflection
S3 P2 🧘 Inner Critic Inquiry Practice: A Three-Seat Dialogue
S3 P2 ⚠️ The Trap: Criticizing the Critic
S3 P3 🌬 Tonglen for the Inner Critic
S3 P2 🎙️ Spoken Word: “The Turn”
S3 P3 🌿 Stepping Out of the System
S3 P3 🌬 Tonglen: Breathing Into Belonging
S3 P3 ✍️ Reflection – The House I No Longer Live In
S3 P3 🌿 Spoken Word — Whose Voice Is It, Really?
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Session 4: Individuation – Becoming Who You Truly Are

Who are you, beyond the roles you play?
Beyond the caretaker, the achiever, the pleaser, the fighter?

In this session, we explore individuation — the lifelong process of becoming the Self that’s already living inside you.

  • In Part 1, we begin with Hans Knibbe’s “Jacob’s Ladder” and the concept of the Free Self — the part of you that is untouched, eternal, and deeply alive. We reflect on how spiritual awakening doesn’t mean transcending life, but descending into it — fully human, fully awake.

  • In Part 2, we learn to recognize and release survival roles. These roles once kept us safe — but now they keep us small. Through awareness and reflection, we begin the sacred unraveling: not getting rid of who we were, but integrating who we are.

  • In Part 3, we step into the terrain of spiritual maturity — learning to hold paradox, stay centered in relationship, and act from truth instead of wounding. This is embodied empowerment: not a performance, but a presence.

This session invites you into a deeper layer of self-love —
one where you stop becoming who the world wants you to be,
and start becoming you.

S4 🌿 Opening – Individuation: Becoming Who You Truly Are
S4 P1 🌿 A Story The Quiet No
S4 P1 🔥 What is Individuation
S4 P1 💔 The Cost of Becoming ⚔️ The Warrior’s Choice
S4 P1 ✍️ Exercise – Unmasking the Old Roles
S4 P1 Short Tonglen Practice
S4 P2 🌱 Spiritual Maturity: From Awakening to Embodied Action
S4 P2 🧭 Reflective Orientation: What Does Maturity Mean?
S4 P2 🌬️ Anchoring the Vision
S4 P2 🌿 Exercise: Mapping Your Lifeline – The Journey to Autonomy
S4 P3 ✨ Clarifying Your Soul’s Aspiration
S4 P3 ✦ Practice: Meeting Your Competing Commitments
S4 P3 🌀 Spoken Word: The Moment You Choose

Session 5: Triggers & Relational Freedom – The Path Back to Conscious Connection

Relationships are where we’re most alive —
and where our deepest wounds show up to be seen.

In this session, we explore the transformational power of relational pain. Not as something to fix, but as a portal to presence, responsibility, and freedom.

  • In Part 1, we enter the dark night of the soul — that deep unraveling where emotional survival patterns break down. Here, we learn that triggers are not obstacles, but invitations. This is the sacred process of emotional ripening.

  • In Part 2, we unpack the Drama Triangle — Victim, Rescuer, Persecutor — and begin to recognize how we unconsciously recreate pain loops in our connections. Through awareness and breath, we learn to step out of drama and into clarity.

  • In Part 3, we explore the inner relational triad — Parent, Adult, and Child — and how these internal dynamics shape our outer relationships. We practice coming back to our centered adult self: the one who can feel deeply, speak truth, and stay free.

This session is an initiation into conscious relating —
a path that leads not to perfection, but to presence.

S5 🔥Opening – Triggers & Relational Freedom
S5 P1 🌑 The Dark Night of the Soul
S5 P1 🔍 Theory – Ripening Before & After Awakening + Refl ex
S5 P1 🖤 The Night That Knows Your Name
S5 P2 🕊 Attachment & the Echo of First Love
S5 P2 💗 Reparenting: A Return to Secure Love
S5 P2 💞 💞 The One Who Reaches
S5 P3 The Drama We Inherit, the Freedom We Choose
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S5 P3 Transformation: The Empowerment Triangle
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S5 P3 👪 The Inner Triad: Parent – Adult – Child
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S5 P3 🎤 Spoken Word – “Come Back to the One Who Knows”
S5 P3 🧘 “Meeting the Loving Adult Within”
S5 P4 Living from the Loving Adult Integration & Embodied Choice
S5 P4 🪷 Guided Practice – The Inner Roundtable Ritual
S5 P4 🎤 Spoken Word – “The One Who Stays”

Session 6: Boundaries & Self-Protection – Reclaiming Your Right to Choose

Most of us were never taught how to say no.
We were taught to be kind, to be good, to be liked —
even when it meant betraying ourselves.

In this session, we reclaim the deep inner knowing that lives in the body:
the subtle voice that says no, even when the mind tries to override it.

  • In Part 1: You Already Know, we return to the inner voice we’ve been trained to ignore. We learn to recognize the moment doubt sets in — and how that doubt is often a disguised boundary. You know. You just don’t want to know.

  • In Part 2: The Armour We Wear, we explore why boundaries are so hard. How childhood conditioning, fear of rejection, and internalized shame have taught us to suppress our no in favor of harmony. We look at the protective roles we’ve taken on — the pleaser, the appeaser, the avoider — and how to begin disarming them.

  • In Part 3: The Courage to Act, we learn to say no without blame, without a fight. We practice setting boundaries with clarity and care — not as defense, but as self-honoring. Boundaries become a way to love both ourselves and the other.

This session is an invitation to stop abandoning yourself.
To start standing by yourself — in truth, in clarity, in love.

S6 🚪 Opening – Boundaries & Self-Protection
S6 P1 🧭 You Already Know: Reclaiming the Inner No
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S6 P1 💡 Short Theory: Boundaries Aren’t Walls — They’re Clarity
S6 P1 Somatic Exercise
S6 P1 ✍️ Journaling Practice – The Moment I Left Myself
S6 P1 🎤 Spoken Word: This Time, I’ll Listen
S6 P1 💡 Micro-Practice:
S6 P2 🔒 The Armor We Wear Why Boundaries Are So Hard
S6 P2 🎤 Spoken Word – “I Know What I Gave Away”
S6 P2 🌿 Somatic Practice and journaling.mp4
S6 P3 🧱 The Courage to Act Saying No Without the Fight.mp4
S6 P3 🌿 Somatic Practice – Expressing a Loving No
S6 P3 🔥 Choosing yourself Integration Ritual
S6 P3 Spoken word The Power of No

Session 7: Inner Guidance & Intuition – Listening from Within

Most of us were never taught to trust our inner voice.
We were taught to think, to explain, to doubt —
until we no longer knew what we truly felt.

In this session, we begin to tune into the language of intuition:
a soft, grounded knowing that lives in the body,
beneath the noise of fear, overthinking, and conditioning.

  • In Part 1: The Language of the Body, we reconnect with the subtle signals of inner guidance — the tightening in the chest, the contraction in the belly, the whisper that says this isn’t it. We learn to recognize intuition not as pressure, but as clarity.

  • In Part 2: The Whisper Beneath the Noise, we explore why intuition is so often ignored. How trauma, people-pleasing, and over-analysis drown out our own knowing. We create space for choice — learning to hear our yes and no before the mind takes over.

  • In Part 3: Radical Self-Trust & the Courage to Choose, we step into action. We explore how trusting your intuition also means risking the unknown, taking responsibility, and standing by your inner truth — even when it’s inconvenient.

This session is an invitation to return to your compass.
To rebuild trust in your own knowing.
To begin choosing from within.

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Session 8: Embodied Action – From Insight to Integration

Insight is not enough.
Without action, transformation remains a concept.

In this session, we explore what it means to live our truth —
not just feel it, not just speak it,
but embody it in our daily choices and direction.

  • In Part 1: The Action Gap, we uncover the space between knowing and doing — where fear, self-doubt, and inertia live. Through micro-commitments and self-honoring choices, we begin to close that gap gently but steadily.

  • In Part 2: Integrity in Motion, we meet the spiral of transformation — the non-linear path of change. We explore what it means to move in integrity, to align with our deeper truth even when perfection isn’t present, and to forgive ourselves when we falter.

  • In Part 3: The Joy of Being, we explore how action becomes nourishment. We root into our future self, into choices born from aspiration rather than fear, and we allow joy, pleasure, and creativity to become our integration.

This session is an invitation to live what you’ve reclaimed.
To make choices that match your truth.
To trust that your becoming is already underway.

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Session 9: Reclaiming Your Needs – Self-Care, Inner Nourishment & Receiving

So many of us learned to suppress our needs —
to care for others, to stay strong, to never be a burden.

In this session, we reclaim the hidden longings within:
not just the need to rest, to be held, to feel safe —
but the radical permission to receive without guilt.

  • In Part 1: The Longing That Stayed Hidden, we explore how unmet needs live in the body — as tension, hunger, loneliness, or drive. We begin the tender process of listening to what we’ve been too proud, scared, or distracted to hear.

  • In Part 2: Receiving vs. Hyper-Independence, we examine the defense of self-reliance. How our inability to receive love, help, or care keeps us stuck in isolation. We practice softening and opening — not from weakness, but from courage.

  • In Part 3: Guilt, Boundaries & Adult Nourishment, we dive into the shame that surrounds asking, the guilt that comes with receiving, and the boundaries needed to protect nourishment. We explore what mature, grounded self-care really looks like.

This session is a homecoming.
Not to more doing, but to deeper allowing.
Not to strength alone — but to soft, sustainable wholeness.

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Closing Ritual

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Frequently asked questions

You've got questions. We've got answers.

Do I need to start on a specific date?

No. You can start anytime and move at your own rhythm.

What if I’ve already done therapy or personal development?

Perfect.
This journey meets you at the edge where insight needs embodiment —
where knowing becomes feeling,
and healing becomes choice.
It’s not a repeat of what you’ve already done, but a deepening.

How much time do I need each week?

Each module takes about 60–75 minutes to go through — including the theory, the spoken word meditation, the somatic practice and journaling.
But this journey isn’t about rushing.
You’re invited to move with your own rhythm, even if that means taking more time for integration.

Do I need to finish the course in 9 weeks?

Not at all.
Even though the modules are released weekly, you’ll have ongoing access to all content.
There’s no expiry date, no pressure — just space to return whenever you’re ready.

Is this for me if I’m burned out or overwhelmed?

Yes. Especially then.
This program is built on nervous system safety, gentle pacing and soft structure.
You’re not asked to perform or achieve — only to come as you are, and listen inward.

What if I can’t afford 1-on-1 coaching?

No problem.
The core program is complete on its own and offers you a powerful, self-guided process.
The coaching upgrade is optional — for those who want extra support.

Do I need any prior experience with embodiment, somatics or spirituality?

No.
All you need is a willingness to pause, to feel, and to explore with curiosity.
You’ll be guided gently, step by step.
Everything is explained in clear, grounded language.

Investment

  • Course
  • 85 Lessons

€395
or 3 monthly payments of €136

This includes lifetime access to all 9 modules, spoken word meditations, journaling prompts, and embodiment practices —
so you can return to the teachings whenever you need them.

No rush. No pressure. Just a steady unfolding in your own time.

Optional 1:1 coaching available for those who desire personal guidance alongside the program.