Radical Self-Care as Resistance with Heather Beiden Jacobs of Transformative Wellbeing Coaching

Heather Beiden Jacobs, a Portland-area wellbeing coach who supports organizers, nonprofit leaders, and mission-driven change makers with “radical self-care” as strategic infrastructure and inner work of resistance - joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Heather shares her background of childhood trauma, a severe diabetes diagnosis at age eight, years of self-destructive behavior, and a near-death hospitalization at 19 that helped shift her toward healing, sobriety, and sustained self-compassion, later reinforced by her relationship with her partner, Blaine. She describes widespread chronic systemic overwhelm and how burnout benefits manipulation and division, arguing self-care is necessary, mutual, and tied to meeting human needs so people can access clarity and collective action. Heather discusses challenges of reaching overwhelmed clients, offers a workshop for aligned organizations, and shares how to contact her via TransformativeWellbeingCoaching.com and LinkedIn.