A few quick answers about Make Self-Care Simple, how it works and where to start.
1. What is Make Self-Care Simple?
Make Self-Care Simple is a repeatable way of working out what to do when you’ve followed health or self-care advice, but the results aren’t as clear as you expected.
It helps you explore what happened, what else might be influencing the result, and what your body is telling you — so you can decide what to do next.
2. Is Make Self-Care Simple medical advice?
No. Make Self-Care Simple doesn’t diagnose or treat health conditions, and it doesn’t replace advice from your doctor or another qualified health professional.
MSS is really about what happens after you follow advice — when you’re back in everyday life wondering whether it’s helping, what might be affecting the result, and what to do next.
3. Who is Make Self-Care Simple for?
It’s for those times when you’ve tried something to support your health or wellbeing and find yourself wondering:
Is this working? Am I doing something wrong? Why isn’t this working for me? What do I do now?
Often it isn’t a crisis. It’s just you, on a Tuesday afternoon, trying to work out what to do next.
That’s the moment Make Self-Care Simple is designed for.
4. Do I need to have a health condition to use MSS?
No. You might be trying to improve your sleep, eat differently, move more, manage stress or simply feel better — and wondering whether what you’re doing is actually helping.
MSS can be used with everyday health and self-care too.
5. Can I use MSS alongside advice from my doctor or another health professional?
Yes. MSS isn’t an alternative to professional healthcare.
It can help you notice and make sense of your own experience between appointments, so you have a clearer picture of what happened when you followed the advice you were given.
6. What kinds of health or self-care advice can I use it with?
Almost anything you’re doing to support your health or wellbeing where the results aren’t clear.
That might be a new routine, diet, supplement, product, exercise, relaxation practice or guidance from a health professional.
MSS isn’t about telling you which advice to follow. It helps you explore what happened when you tried it.
7. What is the Body Guidance Review?
The Body Guidance Review is the free first step into Make Self-Care Simple.
It helps you discover how your body tends to give you feedback — and then use something you’ve already tried to see whether you might have missed useful signs of change.
8. I’ve completed the Body Guidance Review. What comes next?
The Review helps you recognise your body’s feedback. The MSS Method teaches you how to explore what that feedback might mean and what to do next.
It brings Body Guidance together with the other things that can influence why good health or self-care advice doesn’t always give us the results we expected.
9. What’s the difference between the Body Guidance Review, MSS Method and Practice?
Think of them as three stages:
Body Guidance Review — recognise.
Learn how your body tends to give you feedback.
MSS Method — navigate.
Learn the complete process for exploring an unclear result and deciding what to do next.
Practice — keep applying.
Get ongoing support using what you’ve learned in the ups and downs of real life.
10. Why would I need the Method if I’ve already done the Review?
Because recognising your body’s feedback is the first step — but it isn’t always the whole answer.
There are other reasons why the results of good advice can be unclear. The Method helps you explore those too and brings everything together into a process you can return to whenever you find yourself wondering, What do I do now?
11. Do I need Practice to use the Method?
No. The MSS Method is designed to give you the complete process to use for yourself.
Practice is optional ongoing support for people who would like help applying the Method to real situations, learning from what happens and continuing to use it over time.
12. What is involved — and how much time will it take?
Make Self-Care Simple is a self-guided process rather than one-to-one coaching.
At the beginning, you’ll need some dedicated time to learn the process and get yourself set up. After that, it’s designed to fit around everyday life rather than become another thing you have to constantly keep up with.
Most of the time, you’ll simply touch base for a few minutes. Then, around once a month — or whenever you find yourself wondering What do I do now? — you can set aside a little more time to step back, look at what’s been happening and use the process to work out your next step.
Everyone will use MSS a little differently. The aim isn’t to spend lots of time doing it — it’s to have a process you know how to use when you need it.