You don't lack willpower.
You need the capacity to make change last—
especially when life demands more of you.
Psychotherapy | Workshops | Speaking | Consulting
I help women rebuild their relationship with their bodies, food and themselves—so they can stop starting over and finally create change that holds.
Grounded in the Resilience-Inspired Action Framework™, this work helps you understand why change hasn’t stuck—and how to build the capacity to sustain it.
The Truth
Lasting change isn’t built in ideal conditions. It’s built in the moments that stretch you.
Most approaches focus on motivation and short-term outcomes. But real life—especially during major transitions—requires something deeper: the capacity to adapt and stay consistent when things are hard.
The truth is: You cannot build a sustainable future on a depleted system.
The reproductive years, pregnancy, and parenting are among the most biologically and psychologically demanding seasons of a woman’s life. If the habits you’ve been struggling to maintain aren’t sticking, it’s not a lack of willpower. It’s a lack of capacity.
Who This Work Is For
This work is for you if you’re tired of trying to change—and still feeling stuck.
You’ve tried to improve your health, your habits, or your relationship with your body—
but nothing seems to stick, especially when life gets demanding.
You’re doing your best, but you’re stretched thin.
And deep down, you know this isn’t about trying harder.
Specializations
Disordered Eating & Eating Disorder Recovery
Reproductive, Perinatal & Postpartum Mental Health
Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Body Image & Sustainable Behaviour Change
Together, we focus on:
Rebuilding Self-Trust
Healing your relationship with your body and your habits.
Moving out of the “never enough” cycle and into a place where you can trust yourself again—where how you feel matters more than how you look.
Creating Change That Actually Lasts
Moving beyond willpower and short-term fixes.
Building habits and behaviours that work with your nervous system and your real life—so you’re not constantly starting over.
Navigating Life’s Most Demanding Seasons
Finding steadiness and clarity during the times that stretch you most, whether that’s pregnancy, postpartum, parenting, or another major transition, so you can show up for your life without losing yourself in the process.Grounded in both professional expertise and lived experience, I bring a deeply informed perspective to advancing women's mental health and long-term well-being.
A Different Approach
The Resilience-Inspired Action Framework™ is a capacity-first, developmental approach to sustainable behaviour change.
The Resilience-Inspired Action Framework was developed through a combination of clinical practice, research in behaviour change and resilience, and lived experience of navigating and sustaining change over time. It targets the conditions that make change possible: building capacity, making sense of your story, reclaiming agency, clarifying your direction, taking aligned action, and shaping the environments and relationships that support you.
This is not about pushing harder. It’s about building the capacity for change that holds.
Why Change Hasn't Stuck
Jamie Dawdy, RN, MSc
Creator of The Resilience-Inspired Action Framework™
Why Is Sustainable Change So Difficult?
Because we often try to change our behaviour without changing our internal state or environment.
The Resilience-Inspired Action Framework™ is a developmental approach to building the capacity you need for health, healing, and recovery.
Rather than reinforcing the narrative to "try harder," the Resilience-Inspired Action Framework™ focuses on building the conditions that make sustainable behaviour change possible:
CAPACITY - Ground & Regulate: Regulating the nervous system to handle the weight of change.
STORY - Make Sense of Your Story: Making sense of past and present patterns.
AGENCY - Choice & Self-Trust: Reclaiming the internal authority to move forward with confidence.
DIRECTION - Clarify Your Path: Clarifying your path with focus, intention and purpose.
ACTION - Inspired & Aligned Action: Moving with inspiration and alignment to values with small steps forward.
SUPPORT - Supportive Environments & Relationships: Cultivating the environment and relationships that protect, reinforce and sustain progress.
Sustainable change isn’t about being "better"—it’s about being better supported.
Build Resilience. Strengthen Capacity. Create Lasting Change.
Take the Framework Self-Assessment Tool
Are you trying to make sustainable lifestyle or behaviour changes?
Struggling to make meaningful change stick?
Use this self-assessment to identify your current strengths and growth edge.
Work With Me
Build the capacity for change that lasts.
Capacity-first consulting for organizations, teams and communities seeking sustainable change.
Keynotes and talks that change how people understand change.
1:1 psychotherapy for sustainable growth and positive behaviour changes, tailored to your unique journey.
Interactive, evidence-based training grounded in the framework.
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