Welcome to Your Resilience Boost

Your Path to Emotional Strength and Renewed Purpose

Have you faced challenging transitions or found yourself anchored in place?

 This course is a place where you'll rediscover your resilience and chart a course towards a brighter tomorrow. 

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This transformative journey is crafted for those seeking more than just a way forward; it's for those yearning to thrive. Our course provides actionable tools to navigate through difficulties, empowering you to regain your balance and embrace life's challenges with resilience.



Boost Your Resilience

A self-guided course with research-backed journal prompts and guided meditations to help you deepen your resilience

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Course Reviews

Helped me bring more joy and inner calm into my life!

Rebecca Miller

I have been raving to my friends about this course! I got so much more out of it than I would have with just the journal. With the journal, I would have admi...

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I have been raving to my friends about this course! I got so much more out of it than I would have with just the journal. With the journal, I would have admired how pretty it was and looked at all the quotes, but I would have been "afraid" to write in it because it is so beautiful! I really looked forward to the routine each day and feel like it has helped me bring more joy and inner calm into my life.

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Amazing!

Tracie Erlandson

First of all I LOVE the book/journal. It is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever seen. I love the photos, I love the writing and the fonts. I love that ...

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First of all I LOVE the book/journal. It is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever seen. I love the photos, I love the writing and the fonts. I love that the journaling pages are dotted instead of lined. I love everything about it. It may sound silly but it seriously motivates me to do the work. I’m a visual person and I think that the beauty of the book really helps. The prompts are all really good as well. I’m not good at journaling but they definitely help me get started. I also feel a lot of anxiety when I look at the blank page. However, once I start writing it turns into something bigger and clarifies my thoughts. The beginning meditations (that I’m also not usually good at!) help me settle in so that it’s easier to focus on the prompts and my thoughts — to go inside. I am so appreciative of the structure of the course with all of its questions and quotations and wise writings. I honestly feel that the beauty is overwhelming — in a good way. I’m always trying to do this work but this is the first course I’ve taken that has actually motivated me to WANT to do it every day. And I’m beginning to feel like I’m making some progress. Thank you!

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Terrific Course!

Nina Axelrod

I’m not someone who journals often, but I found myself looking forward to doing it each morning, and I’ve missed it since finishing the course. I loved all ...

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I’m not someone who journals often, but I found myself looking forward to doing it each morning, and I’ve missed it since finishing the course. I loved all the practical exercises that helped me reflect on things in my life in different ways. I think there are a lot of exercises that I could take away and use again. I also loved the meditations. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to look a little deeper at personal issues. It’s really a lovely step by step guide that doesn’t throw you in too quickly. I think I got way more out of the Take Two journal by doing the course than if I had tried to do it on my own.

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Instructor(s)

Instructor

Kate Simpson

Kate is the Co-Founder and Head of Outreach for ValuesAdvisor, an online platform that helps investors find a financial advisor who specializes in values-aligned investing. She's also a trained life coach, teacher, and Co-Author of Take Two: A Journal for New Beginnings, a journal published by Chronicle Books that helps people build emotional resilience. With more than 20 years of experience in the impact investing field, Kate brings her understanding of the power of resilience, knowledge of the impact investing field, and formal training in education to help investors of all backgrounds learn to align their investments with their values. Kate now offers guidance and expertise to individual investors through her online course “Invest With Purpose” Course, consulting, and workshops with organizations like ValuesAdvisor, Invest For Better, and Silicon Valley Venture Partners. Kate holds a master's degree from Stanford University. She lives in Maine with her partner and three kids and spends as much time as possible in nature.

Co-instructor

Ellen Watson

Ellen is the co-author of Take Two: a Journal for New Beginnings. She also manages the social media strategy for a nonprofit and is a trained yoga teacher, a freelance writer, and a mom to two daughters. She’s lived and worked in Telluride, CO, San Francisco, Seattle, and Manhattan, before settling back into the comforts of her native Maine. As a writer and mother, she is inspired daily by the sights and sounds of Maine’s natural beauty, taking her children on as many adventures as she can muster.

Meditation Instructor

Ray Baskerville

After a profound and powerful spiritual experience in 1986, Ray began a spiritually focused life. He also began a lifelong exploration of the psychological and spiritual nature of being human. Ray has been practicing meditation for over 30 years and has been a workshop leader in Mindfulness-based practices all over the world since 2000. He has also authored several books on meditation and mindfulness as a healing and therapeutic practice. In 2005 Ray qualified as a certified hypnotherapist and has an MA in Mindfulness based Psychotherapy. He is also trained in EMDR and also offers attachment-focused counseling. Ray works as a psychotherapist and Transpersonal coach. Ray also has a background in the arts and completed an MA in Performing Arts before leaving the UK in 1996. He then spent most of his time in Indian ashrams and Thai monasteries doing voluntary work, spiritual practices and study until 2001. Ray has lived on Maui, Hawaii with his family since 2005.

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Blog Posts, Media & Videos

Take Two Journal

Video Book Trailer for the Take Two Journal: our story.

"How we came to write a guided journal," from the Take Two Blog.

6 Practices to Build Resilience -- by Ellen & Kate in Spirituality & Health Magazine.

3 Practices to Calm Down: by Kate in Spirituality & Health Magazine.

Stanford Magazine's "2020 Gift Guide for Book Lovers".

Podcast interview with Kate on the research behind Take Two.

A written interview with Ellen in Verse Media about resilience and starting over.

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What Will You Gain?

  • Shift Your Perspective: Learn practical techniques like journaling, mindfulness, and self-compassion to transform your thinking.

  • Unlock Your Mind: Delve into proven practices from Take Two: A Journal For New Beginnings, authored by us, to guide you through self-discovery and growth.

  • Identify Limiting Beliefs: Break free from mental constraints by recognizing and overcoming limiting beliefs that hold you back.