Hold the hardest days of other people’s lives and still feel like yourself at dinner.

In oncology, palliative care, hospice, emergency medicine, and the ICU, you're expected to bear someone's worst day, then go home and cook dinner as if nothing happened. That's not work-life balance. That takes a self-trust most advice was never built for.

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You’ve gotten very good at fine.

Fine is a functional place to live. You show up, you chart, you take the extra patient. You get through the shift, the dinner, and the bedtime routine, and from the outside it looks like you’re handling it. Fine gets a lot done. It also costs a lot, and the bill arrives in places you may not be looking. If nothing changes, here is where it tends to go:

Resentment runs on a loop. Between the paperwork and the patients the short-staffed unit hands you, a track plays in your head: “Screw this. I’m better than this. Why am I even working here? These people don’t love me back.”
Your body pays first. The wine gets poured before you’re through the door, and it has started to feel normal. The dinner you planned feels like too much, so the kids get chicken nuggets and you eat crackers standing at the counter. You can’t remember your last workout. Your shoulder aches, your back aches, and half a flight of stairs leaves you winded.
You’re home, but you’re somewhere else. You replay conversations you wish you’d handled differently and patients you couldn’t help because the system failed them. With your kids, you snap or you avoid, because you can’t absorb one more thing.
Someone is watching how you live. If you have a daughter, you may have asked yourself: Is this the life I want her to see? Am I modeling the health, the boundaries, the wholeness I’d want for her?
The future feels far away. You daydream about the day you walk away from this system for good. Quietly, you wonder whether you’ll make it that far, or be too worn down to enjoy it when you do.
Underneath it all, a quiet grief. I could have done something amazing. I could have really helped people. I never became who I could have been.

If you recognized yourself in that list, you are in very good company. Most women doing this work carry some version of it, and most of them carry it alone. Fine was a smart strategy for getting through the early years. It was never meant to be where you live for the next twenty.

Do You Feel like, a shell of your former self

01 Exhausted even after 8 hours of sleep. You dread going to work. You feel numb, detached, and guilty for feeling anything at all.

02 It's impossible to switch off after a shift. You rehash every loss, every death, every hard case in your head.

03 You're irritable with the people you love. You have a constant knot in your chest, a tight jaw, and shallow breathing.

04 You feel like you are "on" all the time and never truly rest. And underneath it all, you feel guilty for wanting to take care of yourself.

WHAT IF...

It Didn't Have

TO BE THAT WAY?

What if you could go from being "the strong one who never needs anything" to "the woman who knows her worth and takes care of herself."

What if there was a way out of being a caregiver who gives until she's empty. A way to be a woman who can care for others because she first cares for herself.

What if going sideways didn't have to mean losing yourself? What if you could feel the ground shift and still know, I've got me?

INTRODUCING

SELF TRUST SCHOOL

The place for high achieving women in medicine and healthcare to find the ground beneath their feet again.

After so many years of striving and trusting the system to reward your efforts, it is time to decide that trusting yourself is more important. Healthcare and the world in general are chaotic and we can't fix most of it. When we have a strong foundation of self trust we can operate from responsivenes, not reactivity.

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WHO IS THIS FOR

Self Trust School is for women with "regular" problems.

Nothing is technically wrong, and you still don't feel right. No diagnosis, no crisis. Just the steady weight of a full life, and a body and mind asking for more care than you've had time to give them.

You're a doctor who rolls your eyes at yoga. Good. Bring the skepticism. Yoga is potent medicine, and plenty of people who love it now started out resisting it.

You've decided you "can't meditate," but you're curious anyway. You've seen what a trained mind can do under pressure and wondered what it would feel like to have one. You don't need a quiet mind to start. You need a few minutes and a willingness to notice.

You'd rather use food, movement, and daily habits to ease the small aches of life. The stiff back, the restless sleep, the afternoon crash, the short fuse. You want tools you can use yourself before reaching for another quick fix.

It may not be the right fit if you're managing a specific medical or psychiatric condition that needs clinical care. Self Trust School can sit alongside that care, and your clinician should stay your first call.

Why is self-trust so hard for women?

Because we were trained out of it, early and often.

From the time we were girls, many of us learned that being good meant being agreeable. Don't be bossy. Don't be dramatic. Smile. Check with someone first. We learned to read the room before we read ourselves, and to treat our own instincts as a draft that needed someone else's approval.

Then we grew up and the lessons got quieter but kept coming. Our pain gets called stress. Our certainty gets called attitude. Our anger gets called emotional. Our ideas land better when a man repeats them in the meeting. As a physician, I've watched women's symptoms get brushed aside for years before anyone took them seriously, and I've watched brilliant women clinicians second-guess themselves in rooms where they were the most qualified person present.

After enough of that, doubting yourself starts to feel like humility. Deferring feels like maturity. Overriding your body's signals feels like strength. You outsource your trust to experts, bosses, partners, and apps, and then wonder why you feel so disconnected from your own life.

That self-doubt makes perfect sense given what you were taught. And what was learned can be unlearned.

In Self Trust School, we name the misogyny that shaped how you think about yourself, so you can stop mistaking it for your own voice. Then we rebuild the connection, one practice at a time: noticing what your body is telling you, questioning the thoughts that keep you small, and keeping small promises to yourself until trusting yourself feels normal again.

You were born knowing how to trust yourself. We're here to help you remember.

HEY I'M

EMMA JONES

I want you to know I have lived this from the inside.

I'm a pediatric oncologist turned palliative care specialist turned hospice physician. I have spent years at the bedsides of dying children and adults, supporting families in their most devastating moments, and holding space for things most people can't even bear to think about.

I also burned out. Quietly, thoroughly, and in ways I didn't recognize until I was already deep in it.

What I found on the other side is that the path back isn't about self-care routines or setting better limits. It's about fundamentally rewiring the relationship between your compassion and your sense of self. I've spent years building this into a methodology that I can easily give to others.

That's the work I do. And it works because I built it from the inside of the very life you're living.

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What You're Going To Get

3 SIMPLE MONTHLY PRACTICES

We practice letting go and widening the space between stimulus and response. Each month you will get 3 new practices all specifically designed to accelerate your well-being without requiring hours each day.

01 YOGA

02 MEDITATION

03 MINDSET

Mindset: learn how your mind works and how to work with it

Mindset work is learning to notice the thoughts running in the background of your day, then deciding which ones deserve your trust. We do it by asking great questions, exploring what we think and why we think it, and learning frameworks that help us understand ourselves more deeply.

Most of us have a script playing on repeat that we’ve never questioned:

I have to do it all myself.
If I rest, I’m falling behind.
Everyone else is handling this better than I am.

These thoughts feel like facts, so we obey them. They shape how we feel, which shapes what we do, which shapes the life we end up living.

Same email, different night. Two people get the same curt email from their boss. One thinks, I’m in trouble, and spends the evening anxious, replaying it. The other thinks, She’s probably slammed today, and goes to dinner. The difference lives in the interpretation.

Here you’ll learn to catch that interpretation in the moment and ask better questions: Is this true? Is it helpful? What else could be going on? Hard things stay hard. The goal is to stop adding extra suffering on top of them.

How we do it. I coach primarily from the iPEC school of Core Energy Coaching, which uses the seven energy levels as its central paradigm. I also draw on NLP and hypnosis to work with the subconscious mind.

Each month you’ll get:

A short video lesson on that month’s framework (month one is grief: how to hold it without letting it swallow you)
A worksheet to guide your own self-exploration
A live group coaching session on Zoom to go deeper

You can also drop into the community forum and let the collective wisdom help you brainstorm or spot a blind spot.

You won’t spend hours talking through your specific circumstances. You’ll learn a new way to approach them. That matters because you can have the best yoga practice, the perfect meal plan, and a meditation streak going, and still feel stuck if the voice in your head keeps telling you you’re failing. Mindset is the thread that ties everything together, and it’s where self-trust gets built, one small moment at a time.

And like everything here, practice makes practice. Nobody masters this. You just get quicker at noticing.

GET STARTED

A Year of Practice for less than a month of most things you've tried

THRIVE was a $5,000 program. Private coaching runs $1000 per month. Self Trust School gives you the same depth of work over a year, for a fraction of either.

Therapy cost $200-300 per session and most yoga studios run $100-200 per month.

Apps may be free but aren't worth much if you don't actually use them and having a huge catalogue of offerings adds more overwhelm, not more value.

Self Trust School Solves all of this. Founding member rate: $27/month
Join before October 12 and your rate is just $27 a month. That’s $324 for a full year.

Regular rate: $47/month
On October 12, the price moves to $47 a month. A full year at that rate is $564.

What a year gets you
Twelve months of yoga, meditation, and mindset work, with a live group coaching session every month and a community that keeps your conversations private. Stay for a year and you’ve done the equivalent of THRIVE, or many months of private coaching, without the $5,000 price tag.

Self-trust gets built the way a body gets stronger: a little at a time, repeated. That’s why this is a membership instead of a one-time program. You don’t need a big push of effort. You need a steady place to practice, and a price that lets you stay long enough for it to work.

A year from now you could be someone who is steady in herself, even on the hardest days.

Join at the founding rate today. The $27 price is available until October 12.

Founding Members Subscription

$27/mo

One yoga practice. One meditation. One mindset training. Zero Overwhelm.

✓ Monthly themes curated to women in healthcare
✓ 24/7 Access so you learn and practice on your schedule
✓ Private community space for sensitive conversations and camaraderie
✓ Capacity Dashboard + Self Coaching School so that this all becomes part of who you are

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No Risk, Just Solid Ground

Cancel anytime, no questions asked. If Self Trust School isn't giving you what you need, you can walk away whenever you want. No guilt, no hoops, no hard feelings. That's not a marketing line, it's the whole point of this work: you get to trust yourself enough to know what's right for you, and act on it.

STILL GOT QUESTIONS?

Frequently Asked

QUESTIONS

"I'm not a yogi."

"What the heck is coaching?"

"I already have an exercise app."

"Is it like therapy? Are you a therapist"

"I already have a meditation app."

"What is mindset work, and why does it matter?"

"Only four sessions a month? That doesn't seem like much."

"How is the content delivered"

Imagine Trusting Yourself Like This

You believe in yourself as someone who can accomplish anything you set your mind to. You trust that you can weather any storm, not because storms won't come, but because you know you're the kind of person who gets through them. You trust yourself enough to sit with discomfort instead of numbing it away. You trust yourself to have the hard conversation, to make the tough apology, to say the true thing even when it's uncomfortable.

You're ready to fly, because you've finally found solid ground beneath your feet. And you trust yourself enough to try, again and again, because you know that ground will always be there to return to.

This is what Self Trust School builds: one month, one practice, one small rep at a time.

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