Six modules. Change with your whole self in mind.
Understand yourself.
Give your change a direction.
You may know what you want to change, yet find yourself repeating familiar patterns. Or life around you has changed and you are finding your footing again. Here, you can begin with who you are and what you need.
Create Change – Inside Out helps you explore your current situation, your relationship with yourself and what influences your choices. You move through self-leadership, values, thoughts, feelings, habits and goals, connecting your insights with your own life.
My starting point is that understanding comes before change. The program brings knowledge together with reflection, exercises and small behavioural steps. You explore what matters to you and practise meeting yourself with greater understanding along the way.
The program is the result of 17 years of work with behaviour change and thousands of encounters with people at different stages of life. Here I have brought together experience, knowledge, insights and established methods from different areas of change work into a coherent whole. You should not have to put all the pieces together yourself: they are gathered here in a way that helps you understand what influences your own change and gives you a foundation for putting it into practice in your life.
This program is for you if you…
- …long for change, but do not quite know where to begin.
- …know what you want to change, but find it difficult to make it happen.
- …have tried before, perhaps many times, yet keep returning to the same patterns.
- …are tired of starting again, losing motivation or feeling that you never quite reach your goal.
- …begin to doubt yourself and your ability when change does not turn out as you hoped.
- …know a lot about what you “should” do, but notice that knowing is not always enough to act differently.
- …set high standards for yourself and often feel you should manage more, do more or be better at holding everything together.
- …have been there for others for so long that you may no longer know what you need or want.
- …feel that something is wrong, even though you cannot quite put your finger on it.
- …notice that the life you live does not quite reflect what matters to you.
- …are in the middle of a change you chose, or one you never asked for, and need to find your bearings.
- …want to understand why you think, feel and act as you do, instead of continuing to struggle against yourself.
- …want to become better at listening to yourself, setting boundaries and making choices that also take your own needs into account.
- …want to stop waiting for the perfect time, more motivation or a calmer life and find a way to create change within the life you actually live.
- …are ready to do something differently – but this time, you do not just want to try harder. You want to understand what you need to give change a real chance to last.
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From understanding to conscious steps
Six connected parts make room for both insight and action. Open a module to explore its focus. Begin with your present situation and carry your growing understanding of yourself through the program.
01Begin where you are
Pause and explore your life as it is today. Notice your needs, what gives and takes energy, and the change you long for. Your present situation becomes a starting point to approach with curiosity.
You put words to what matters and begin to recognise what you need more or less of in everyday life.
02Your relationship with yourself
Explore how you treat yourself when things feel difficult, when you make mistakes or when you want to move forward. Self-compassion, self-esteem and trust in yourself have space here.
You reflect on your inner dialogue and what a kinder approach could mean for your choices and your process of change.
03Self-leadership
What do you want to guide your decisions? Explore your values, your direction and what you can influence. Self-leadership connects understanding yourself with making conscious choices.
You connect what feels meaningful with priorities, boundaries and steps that fit your actual everyday life.
04Your thoughts, feelings and behaviours
Discover how thoughts, feelings and actions influence one another. Explore automatic reactions and how your interpretations can shape what you do.
You practise making room for thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that move towards what matters to you.
05Your history and your patterns
Earlier experiences can influence how you see yourself and meet life today. Here, you explore recurring patterns and ways of responding that have become familiar over time.
You approach your history with curiosity and consider which ways of thinking and acting you want to carry forward or begin to change.
06Habits, goals and motivation
Bring your understanding into practical steps. Explore goals that feel grounded in you, habits that fit your life and what helps you continue as motivation changes.
You consider how to follow up, adjust and return to your direction. Change can make room for action, pauses and trying again.
A foundation to keep building on
Change is not complete when the last module ends. You will very likely notice some differences during the program; others may need time and practice and develop step by step. That is how change works.
Create Change – Inside Out is therefore not designed to bring you to a finished version of yourself. It is designed to give you understanding, tools and a safe, stable foundation to keep building on long after the program ends.
Through the program, you have the opportunity to begin developing:
- a deeper understanding of yourself – your needs, patterns, reactions and what influences your choices.
- a stronger relationship with yourself and a kinder inner dialogue, increasingly speaking to yourself as you would to someone you care about.
- less need to pressure yourself and a greater understanding of the difference between your worth and your performance.
- greater trust in yourself and your ability, even when you doubt yourself or something feels difficult.
- greater awareness of your self-image and inner critic – and the opportunity to question old stories about who you are and what you can do.
- greater confidence in your needs, boundaries and choices, making more room for what matters to you.
- tools for handling thoughts and feelings without always letting them decide what you do next.
- a better understanding of old patterns and how to begin acting differently when they no longer help you.
- a clearer direction based on your values and what truly matters to you.
- a more realistic way to create change, with steps that take your energy, capacity and everyday life into account.
- a different way to meet setbacks – adjusting, learning and finding your way back instead of immediately seeing them as failure.
- tools for the days when life happens, motivation fades or you lose direction.
- greater confidence that you can begin again – not from scratch, but with the experience and understanding you already carry.
You should not have to leave the program with another list of things you ought to do better. The intention is for you to have a greater understanding of who you are, what you need and how to care for both yourself and the change you want to create.
Knowledge that connects with your life
The program uses perspectives and practical tools from CBT and ACT. These include the interplay between thoughts, feelings and behaviours, as well as values, acceptance and mindfulness – focusing on making conscious choices and acting towards what matters to you, even when thoughts and feelings make it difficult.
You work with reflections, exercises and worksheets to explore how this knowledge becomes relevant to you.
Your exercise responses are private to you.
If you would like more personal support, you can enquire about individual coaching separately. Our conversations then start with your current situation, goals and what you need help exploring.
The program is educational self-help for personal development. CBT and ACT are used as perspectives and tools, not as treatment. If you need medical or psychological care, please seek support from an appropriate licensed healthcare professional.
Gentle Change By Elin
Meet me behind the program
My name is Elin and I run Gentle Change By Elin. I work with personal development, self-leadership and change. My starting point is the whole person: your needs, your relationship with yourself and the life in which change needs to work.
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Frequently asked questions about Create Change – Inside Out
Give yourself room to make a considered choice. Here are answers about the program’s outline and how to learn more.
The program has six modules: Begin where you are, Your relationship with yourself, Self-leadership, Your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, Your history and your patterns, Habits, goals and motivation.
Six connected parts make room for both insight and action. Open a module to explore its focus. Begin with your present situation and carry your growing understanding of yourself through the program.
No. You can begin with a longing, a question or a feeling that something needs to be different. The program gives you space to explore your present situation, your needs and what matters to you.
You may have tried to change something many times or be navigating a life change you did not choose. Self-awareness and reflection help you put words to a direction that feels more grounded in who you are.
Join the waiting list for Create Change – Inside Out to hear when registration opens. This is separate from subscribing to the Monthly Inspiration newsletter.
Coaching is a separate offering where I begin with your present situation, your goals and what you want to explore. You can enquire about coaching when choosing a program or while working through it.
Email me and describe the support you would like. We discuss the approach, availability and price before you book. A program purchase does not in itself include personal conversations.
To me, inside out means that all change begins with ourselves. Whether you want to change something within you or something concrete in your life, what you carry inside will influence your path.
Your needs, experiences, thoughts, feelings, values, relationship with yourself and the patterns you have developed influence how you interpret, choose and act. That is why we begin with understanding yourself and let change grow from there – into the choices, actions and steps you take in your life.
Yes, you work through the program entirely at your own pace, in a way that suits you and your everyday life.
When the program opens, its page in my Payhip shop will provide details about the format, access to materials and other practical information.
If you have a question about access, pace or content, I am happy to help you clarify it before buying.
Your responses to the program’s exercises are private to you. You do not need to share personal reflections with me or a group to explore what matters in your life.
If you choose individual coaching separately, you can bring up anything you would like to explore further in our conversations. You decide what to share, and we begin with your goals and the support you are seeking.