For just £47 a month, discover how nature's wisdom creates the emotional resilience you've been seeking without the pressure, pain, or dramatic breakthroughs that left you exhausted.
If you're drowning whilst everyone thinks you're swimming, this is your sanctuary.
You are very good at not letting it show.
You arrive. You show up. You do the work — often extraordinary work — and the people around you rarely see what it costs.
You are being professional when you are privately falling apart.
Present for everyone else when, some days, you barely feel present to yourself.
Kind when you are running on empty, because that is simply what the role requires.
This is not a weakness. This is what happens when deeply caring people work inside systems
that were never designed to sustain them. It is more common than anyone is saying out loud.
And the particular exhaustion of a caring profession is not like ordinary tiredness.
It is the exhaustion of absorbing other people's pain.
Holding space for other people's crises and then driving home
and trying to remember who you are when you are not at work.
You probably have a list of things you have tried. Apps, workshops, and the odd supervision session that helped for a while.
Some of it made a difference briefly. None of it quite held.
That is not because you are beyond help. It is because those approaches were incomplete.
WildHeart Practice exists because incomplete approaches are not enough for people doing the work you do.
Why other approaches didn't last
Most well-being provision for people in caring professions is built on one of three things:
information, individual practice, or peer support. Each of these has genuine value. But each, on its own, is incomplete.
Information tells you what resilience is. It does not build it. Individual practice gives you tools,
but tools used in isolation rarely hold when the shift is brutal, and the ward is short-staffed, when the classroom is crazy
and the paperwork and deadlines are building up and you are holding someone's grief in both hands.
Peer support is vital — but peer support without a framework or a practice
can become a place to vent rather than a place to genuinely restore.
What actually builds lasting emotional resilience is all three elements working together,
held within a framework grounded in something older and steadier than any programme.
Nature has been building resilience for millions of years.
The 12 Sacred Roots of Emotional Resilience™ draws directly from what nature already knows.
The reason nothing quite holds is structural. The structure is what WildHeart Practice changes.
The 12 Sacred Roots of Emotional Resilience™
The framework at the heart of everything
The 12 Sacred Roots of Emotional Resilience™ is a framework created by Debbie McIntosh,
drawing on over twenty years of nature observation and a First Class Honours degree in Disability Studies
majoring in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing.
Each Root represents a genuine component of emotional resilience —
not a motivational concept, but a living quality that can be developed through practice.
The Roots are organised into four groups:
Foundation Roots
Acceptance · Awareness · Courage
Flow Roots
Focus · Flexibility · Forgiveness
Authenticity Roots
Gratitude · Mindfulness · Self-Love
Sustainability Roots
Responsibility · Support · Optimism
Members work through the Roots in a spiral — returning to each one with deeper understanding as the months continue.
You begin at Month 1 regardless of when you join. Everything builds.
What you receive each month
Monthly Teaching Video
A recorded teaching from Debbie — typically 10 to 15 minutes —
exploring one of the 12 Sacred Roots of Emotional Resilience™.
Each teaching is grounded in nature, rooted in the realities of caring work,
and designed to be watched at a time that suits you.
You are not required to be anywhere at a specific moment.
Monthly Nature's Guide
Accompanying each teaching is a Nature's Guide —
a beautifully designed companion
that takes you deeper into that month's Root.
It holds the reflections, the practices and the questions worth sitting with.
It is something to return to throughout the month,
not a task to complete in one sitting.
Community Space
Access to the WildHeart Practice community —
a space built specifically for people in caring professions.
A place to check in, to share what is resonating,
to connect with others who understand your world
without needing you to explain it.
Monthly Live Q&A (45 minutes)
Third Tuesday of the month 5pm GMT/BST
Bring your questions. Get clarification.
Connect with me and other members.
Camera optional many attend camera-off for months.
Can't make it live? Recordings available for 90 days
Live Monthly Onboarding
On the first Monday of each month, new members are
welcomed into the community via a live Zoom session.
This is a relaxed, unhurried orientation —
a chance to see how everything works, ask any questions,
and meet the community before you dive in.
There is no pressure to attend,
but those who do tell us it made all the difference.
Who WildHeart Practice is for
WildHeart Practice is for nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, counsellors, social workers, care workers, GPs,
teachers, school SENCOs, pastoral leads, and anyone whose professional role is centred on caring for other people.
It is for you if you finish a shift feeling hollowed out rather than tired. If you give advice all day that you cannot seem to follow for yourself.
If you have tried various approaches to managing the weight of the work and found that nothing quite held.
If you are privately wondering whether you are simply not built for this —
when the truth is that you are built for exactly this, but you have been doing it without adequate support.
It is not for people seeking a quick fix or a dramatic transformation.
The work here is gentle, consistent, and cumulative. It is for people who are
ready to invest in themselves at the same level they invest in the people they serve.
You have spent years learning how to care for others.
This is where you learn to care for yourself without it becoming another performance.
Your Investment
£47 PER MONTH
No contract. No lock-in. Cancel any time.
Less than a single private therapy session.
For ongoing, community-supported practice every month.
Your membership includes the monthly teaching video, the monthly Nature's Guide,
access to the WildHeart Practice community, the live monthly Q&A on the third Tuesday at 6pm GMT,
and a personal welcome via the monthly onboarding Zoom on the first Monday of each month.
You can cancel at any time. There are no contracts, no minimum terms, and no complicated exit processes.
Stay for as long as WildHeart Practice serves you.
About Debbie McIntosh
The Gentle Revolutionary
Debbie McIntosh is the founder of HeartCore UK and creator of the 12 Sacred Roots of Emotional Resilience™. She holds a First Class Honours degree in Disability Studies majoring in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing, and has spent over twenty years observing how nature builds what we are trying to build in ourselves.
She has been featured in Brand Runway Magazine alongside Dr John Demartini and in MSP News Global. She is HeartMath certified. She describes herself as The Gentle Revolutionary — a specialist in helping people who are exhausted by the performance of resilience discover what genuine resilience actually feels like.
She created WildHeart Practice specifically because the caring professions deserve something built for the particular weight they carry — not a generic wellbeing programme, but a space that understands what it actually costs to show up for others, day after day, inside systems that were not designed to protect you.
FAQ
Your Questions Answered
Is this only for NHS workers?
Not at all. WildHeart Practice is for anyone whose professional role centres on caring for others — nurses, social workers, therapists, counsellors, care workers, GPs, midwives, teachers, SENCOs, pastoral leads, and allied health professionals of all kinds. If you spend your working days holding space for other people's difficulties, this space is for you.
Do I have to attend the live sessions?
No. The monthly Q&A on the third Tuesday is live, and being there if you can is genuinely valuable — but all sessions are recorded and available to members who cannot attend. The onboarding Zoom on the first Monday is also optional, though most members find it a useful starting point. Nothing in this membership requires you to be somewhere at a specific time every week.
I am already in therapy or on a workplace wellbeing programme. Is this still relevant?
Yes. WildHeart Practice is complementary to, not a replacement for, any existing support. Many members find that the 12 Sacred Roots framework gives them a language and a structure that deepens whatever else they are already doing. It works alongside therapy, supervision, and workplace provision rather than competing with any of them.
I am not particularly connected to nature. Will this still work for me?
Yes. Wild connection in this framework is not about hiking or outdoor pursuits. It is about noticing what nature does — even if that is a houseplant on your desk, the sky through a window, or rain on your hands on the walk to your car. If you can notice nature existing, you can work with these teachings. No specialist equipment or outdoor access required.
How much time does this take each week?
The monthly teaching video is typically 10 to 20 minutes. The Nature's Guide is designed to be worked with in short sessions throughout the month rather than all at once. Most members find 10 to 15 minutes a day is enough to maintain a meaningful practice — though there is no prescribed amount, and no penalty for lighter months. This is not another thing to keep up with. It is a place to come back to.
What if I join and it is not right for me?
Cancel any time. Month-to-month, no contract, no questions asked. Your first month gives you full access to everything — the community, the teaching, the Nature's Guide, and the live Q&A. If it is not right for you, you cancel before your next payment and you are charged nothing further. The risk is one month's membership at £47.
A final thought
You chose this work because you care deeply about people. That does not change.
But you cannot keep drawing from a well that is never refilled.
WildHeart Practice is not a reward for when things get easier.
It is support for right now, when things are exactly as demanding as they are.
One month. One Root. One community of people who understand.
That is where it begins.
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Gentle, nature-led resilience for the caring professions