Hi. I’m Kelly Blanchard. I have a PhD in psychology and thirty years of experience teaching, coaching, and consulting. I’ve taught college psychology (and still do), consulted with organizations to help them solve their people problems, and spent a lot of years being a highly capable person in every room I walked into. That was both good and bad — good because I could do whatever was asked of me and bad because I ended up deprioritizing myself way too often.

I grew up on a hobby farm just outside a small town in Ohio, raised by a family of Polish immigrants who taught me that you work hard, you keep your word, and you don’t complain. My grandmother was a good Catholic woman who believed a wife and mother showed love through sacrifice. I absorbed all of it. It served me well and cost me plenty, as I’m sure it did her.

I built Self Reclamation because I lived everything that happens here. The slow disappearing, the resentment, the math that never worked for me, the moment I realized I had no idea who I was outside of taking care of everyone else. And because I got indignant enough to do something about it.

After making the decision to start including myself in my own life again, I rode 162 miles across Indiana in a single day, hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, discovered pole dancing at 52, and will argue that “stubborn” is an underrated quality.

The flagship offering here is the Midlife Reclamation Project — a self-paced program for women who are ready to do the actual work of finding themselves again. I also write a weekly Substack called Meanwhile, Back to Me, where the conversation continues in essay form.

I live in Homosassa, Florida with my husband Ken. We moved there because manatees are cool.