For teams and organizations
Bring Self-Care Is a Scam to your team
Bulk copies, Team Book Circles, and the Standard Workshop with author Esther Boykin, booking now for January through March 2027.
Most of the people on your team are capable. What they’re short on is capacity, and another wellness perk can’t give that back. This book gives your people language for what’s happening to them, and a shared practice they can use at work and at home.
What your team takes from it
Capacity vs. capability. Capability is what your people can do. Capacity is how resourced they are, right now, to do it. Most workplaces measure the first and never ask about the second.
Depletion, and how it gets misread. Empathy without capacity turns into distress, and distress without restoration turns into depletion. From the outside it gets mistaken for laziness or low engagement. Naming it accurately is where a team starts to change how it works.
Inner care becomes outer care. How people treat themselves becomes, eventually, how they treat each other. Self-compassion practiced together becomes collective care, the kind that holds a team when the work is heavy.
Three ways in
How it works
Books ship and sessions run January through March 2027.
Four steps
Tell us your team size, your timing, and which option you’re considering.
For a workshop, a short call to shape it. Copies and circles can go straight to an invoice.
I invoice you directly, with a 50% deposit to hold your date. POs and W-9s are welcome.
Books ship and sessions run January through March 2027.
Organizations Esther has worked with
AAMFT, InsideTrack, SimplePractice, Reach Beyond, Verizon, Vonage.
“What gets praised as strength is often resilience that never gets to clock out.”
From Self-Care Is a ScamBeyond the book
A book conversation gives your team shared language and a place to start. If you need lasting change in how your organization works, that’s program design, and it starts on the consulting page.
Want a full workshop, with practice time and tools your team takes back to work? See the Standard Workshop on the speaking page.
Hi.
I’m Esther Boykin.
I’m a writer, cultural strategist, and guide exploring self-compassion, sovereignty, and sustainable ambition in the lives, relationships, and cultures we create. I draw on more than two decades as a marriage and family therapist and more than sixteen years as a founder and CEO, and I’m the author of Self-Care Is a Scam and a TEDx speaker. I live in Washington, DC.
Frequently Asked Questions
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25 copies for team copies, or 15 people for a Team Book Circle. Ordering fewer than 25? Signed paperbacks are available to pre-order one at a time on the book page.
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Every team copy comes with a signed bookplate at no extra charge. If you’d rather have books I’ve signed myself, add $1.50 a copy; signed copies ship to me first and then on to you, so allow about an extra week.
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I invoice you directly, with a 50% deposit to hold your date. POs and W-9s are welcome.
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Both. The Standard Workshop runs 75 minutes, virtually or in person. A Team Book Circle uses a recorded conversation, so your team can meet on its own schedule.
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Books ship and sessions run January through March 2027. Book a workshop by December 18 and every participant gets a copy of the book.
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Copies and a Team Book Circle give your team shared language and a place to start, and the Standard Workshop adds practice time and tools they take back to work. For keynotes and the full speaking menu, see speaking. For ongoing wellness strategy and program design, see consulting.
Plan it for your team
Tell us your team size, your timing, and which option you’re considering: 25 copies minimum, or 15 people for a Team Book Circle.
“Self-compassion is not about getting to the ten. It’s what you do with yourself on a four.”
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