The fundamentals of being human
(What we should’ve learnt at school)
When:
One-to-Ones: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 1st March - October 31st
Groups: TBD
Where:
Online via Zoom
Back 2 Basics is a 15-week body-based integration journey that guides you from conditioned survival patterns into more of who you truly are. This is the foundation for unshakeable confidence and a sense of radical aliveness.
It’s a somatic (body-based), Life-skill building re-education in how to be human — how to feel, process, express, and live from your True Self rather than your conditioning.
We live in a culture of stress.
In a mechanised world with ever-evolving technologies, efficiency, productivity, and optimisation reign supreme. That’s all well and good but when we apply machine-related principles to natural things like humans and the Earth, we’re forced into overdrive with no consideration for what we truly need to be well.
When stress is the driving force behind the things humans do, the outcome is more stress.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
(Unknown source - often attributed to Albert Einstein but no actual record of him having said these words)
It seems to me that in order to bring about “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible” (Charles Eistensten), we need to break free from the pattern of chronic and habitual stress.
Is this for me?
Back 2 Basics is for dedicated, revolutionary humans willing to begin the process of breaking the persistent and deeply ingrained cultural pattern of chronic stress that’s running our lives for us.
It’s a somatic (body-based), Life-skill building re-education in how to be human — how to feel, process, express, and live from your True Self rather than your conditioning.
Back 2 Basics is for you if:
- You want real confidence — the kind that comes from accepting and integrating every aspect of yourself, not just from the identity of being excellent at a particular skill(set) or being approved of by others
- You look capable, confident, and accomplished from the outside but feel stressed, dissatisfied, or like ‘something’s missing’ on the inside
- You want to understand your emotions, stress reactions, and habitual patterns rather than automatically repeating or ignoring them
- You’re tired of pushing, forcing, or overriding your true needs/wants/opinions to function but don’t know how to operate any other way
- You feel called to live with more integrity, aliveness, and courageous emotional honesty
- You’re open to self-reflection, practice, and repetition — not quick fixes
- You want practical tools and skills you can return to again and again as Life unfolds
- You understand the concept of ‘enough-ness’ cerebrally, but still struggle with thoughts like ‘I’m not good enough, slim enough, attractive enough, strong enough, smart enough, confident enough, qualified enough, experienced enough, etc…’
This programme is especially supportive if:
- You feel overwhelmed by the current state of the world and want to do something that will actually begin creating the change you wish to see
- You’ve ‘done the work’ intellectually (self-help books, regular talk therapy that didn’t include body-based awareness and integration, podcasts, mindset coaching, positive affirmations, etc) but still feel stressed / ‘not enough’ in your body and day-to-day Life
- You’ve learned to perform confidence while privately struggling with Self-doubt and Self-criticism
- You’ve never been taught how to feel, process, or express emotions safely
- You’ve reached a point where old coping strategies are no longer working
Back 2 Basics is not for you if:
- You’re looking for a quick fix, surface-level confidence hack, or education without active participation
- You want to bypass emotions rather than feel and integrate them
- You’re unwilling to slow down, practise, or meet yourself in your truthiest truth
- You expect transformation without applying what’s taught by making small, incremental changes in your day-to-day
- You want someone to tell you exactly who to be or what to do with your Life
- You’re seeking productivity or performance optimisation above all else
This programme is for those who are willing to take radical responsibility, accountability, and ownership for the part they play in their own Life and the world at large.
The ripple effect
It starts with YOU
If not you, then who?
Who are you not to create ripples, waves, or even a tsunami of change?
Be persistent and consistent with taking action and taking rest
This is the work of a Lifetime, not just a season.
A.Tagney
The fundamentals of being human
(What we should’ve learnt at school)
The transformation
| Go from: | To: |
|---|---|
| ‘I don’t matter’ | ‘I matter’ |
| Not enough needs being met (whether physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual) | Enough needs being met enough of the time |
| Emotional suppression/explosion | Emotional literacy and agility |
| Self-doubt and Self-criticism | Self-trust and Self-compassion |
| Not expressing true needs/wants/opinions/ideas | Unapologetic Self-expression |
| Overthinking and analysis paralysis | Ability to drop into the body and its sensations to seek clear, aligned solutions |
| Incongruence / misalignment | Body sensations, emotions, spirit/heart, beliefs, values, aspirations, words, and actions all working together to create unshakeable confidence and aliveness |
Back 2 Basics is not a quick fix. It’s an initiation into a Lifelong relationship with your body, emotions, and True Self.
You’ll leave with skills and tools you can continue to return to, each time at a deeper level, aiding your ongoing transformation process.
The modules
Out of the Head & Into the Body
Theory - Human development
Practice - The Body Scan
How Stressed Are You?
Theory - Modern-day human stress reactions + scale of activation
Practice - Shaking + regulating breathwork
Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Theory - 4 steps to emotional agility + the messages of fear, vulnerability, guilt, & shame
Practice - Clearing breathwork practice
Feel the Fire
Theory - 4 steps to emotional agility recap + the messages of anger, agitation, frustration, & disappointment
Practice - Rage practice
Monsters & Shadows
Theory - 4 steps to emotional agility recap + the messages of envy & jealousy + projection
Practice - Projection exercise
How to Heal a Heavy Heart
Theory - 4 steps to emotional agility recap + the messages of sadness, grief, depression, and wanting to die
Practice - Meeting grief visualisation
Becoming Limitless
Theory - Identifying limiting beliefs and their accompanying behaviour patterns, i.e. making habitual patterns conscious
Practice - Heart method and Rosie Withey’s method
Forgiveness Ceremony
Letting Go Ceremony
Finding What Feels Good
Theory - ‘Positive’ emotions
Practice - ‘Positive’ emotions chart
Values
Theory - What they are, why they matter, and how they help
Practice - Establishing your Top 5 personal values
Boundaries & Standards
Theory - What they are, why they matter, and how they help
Practice - Get clear on boundaries and standards that feel firmly established, ones you have but aren’t upholding, and ones you’d like to have
Speak Up
Theory - Courageous conversations framework
Practice - Role play with me a courageous conversation you’d like to have with someone in your Life
Visioning into the Future
Theory - Why your dreams matter
Practice - Revitalising breathwork practice + setting heart’s desire for beyond this coaching programme
Closing Out Call
Theory - Why reflecting on our progress is such an important Life Skill and how to do it in a constructive (rather than critical) way
Practice - Answering reflective questions
The fundamentals of being human
(What we should’ve learnt at school)
Book your place
Your journey takes place over 15 consecutive weeks
One-to-One
For humans of any sex or gender expression
15 x weekly 90 minute calls online via Zoom
Call availability on Tuesdays (10am - 9pm) and Wednesdays (11am - 9pm), 1st March - October 31st.
Last date for enrolment: 21:00, Tuesday 30th June 2026
Introductory rate for 2026: £1900 (Full Price £2250)
Payment plans available
Book a 20 min call to ask any questions
Enquire by email: hello@abbietagney.com
Pay in full & book your first callSmall group
For humans born into female bodies who identify as women
Maximum of 12 participants
15 x weekly 2 hour calls online via Zoom
Call date/time decided by the group
Last date for enrolment: 21:00, Monday 1st June 2026
Introductory rate for 2026: £950 (Full Price £1500)
Payment plans available
Book a 20 min call to ask any questions
Enquire by email: hello@abbietagney.com
Pay a £100 non-refundable deposit to secure your place
Secure your place with a deposit
How Back 2 Basics works
Each week of the Back 2 Basics programme takes you on a guided journey of the first 3 steps. Steps 4 and 5 begin happening as you apply the new-found skills and tools you’re learning in your day-to-day Life, throughout the 15 weeks of the programme and beyond.
The 5 steps to lasting transformation on the spiral labyrinth journey:
Awareness
At the surface: Something isn’t working / you desire something more
Excavation
In and down: We uncover the root cause behind limiting belief and behaviour patterns
Liberation
At the centre: We unlock what’s actually true for you, who you truly are, and how you desire to move through the world
Integration
Up and out: You practise new ways of being that align with your True Self - awkwardly, bravely, imperfectly
Embodiment
At the surface: You’re rooted in unshakeable confidence and aliveness
Why Back 2 Basics works
- Teaches Self-awareness, Self-acceptance, integration, and regulation as the foundation for unapologetic Self-expression
- Honours all emotions
- Integrates body, beliefs, and behaviours
- Moves from chronic stress → internal safety → relational confidence → future vision
Back 2 Basics isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you are — and learning how to live from that place, again and again and again.
There is space for your Wildness.
All the parts of yourself you deem to be too big, too much, too crazy...
They belong.
Just as the ocean,
in all her unapologetic glory,
roiling and lairy,
clear and still,
hugged in tight to the land or stand-offish in the distance,
is exactly who she is,
at any given time of day,
in any one of her wondrous forms.
There is space in this world for all of who you are.
Stop hiding your fullness.
The world needs more people alive with the sense of their own wholeness.
A.Tagney
The revolution starts with YOU!
#BEthechange
Important:
The Back 2 Basics programme is not a replacement for crisis support or traditional therapy. Receiving additional, complementary support from other trained professionals alongside what we cover in Back 2 Basics could be highly beneficial.