THE SELF LOVE WHEEL®
What Is the Self-Love Wheel®?
The Self-Love Wheel® is a Trauma-Informed, Evidence-Based Framework for Building Self-Worth, Emotional Safety, and Sustainable Inner Change.
Designed for helping professionals, clinicians, coaches, educators, and agencies supporting healing, recovery, and empowerment.
Self-Love Is Not a Concept. It’s a Skillset, And It Must Be Taught.
In mental health, social services, coaching, and trauma-informed care, one truth has become undeniable:
Clients don’t struggle because they don’t know they “should” love themselves. They struggle because no one ever taught them how.
Self-love is often treated as a vague idea, a mindset shift, a motivational concept, or a “nice-to-have” after deeper work is done.
But in reality, self-love is foundational to emotional regulation, boundary setting, healthy relationships, trauma recovery, identity repair, and long-term resilience.
The Self-Love Wheel® framework was created to change that.
Why Is the Self-Love Wheel® Loved by Trauma Professionals Worldwide?
The Self-Love Wheel® is a six-dimensional, trauma-informed framework that transforms self-love from an abstract idea into a clear, teachable, repeatable practice.
Created by Olga Phoenix MPA, MA, internationally recognized wellbeing and resilience expert and creator of the Self-Care Wheel® and Resilience Wheel®, the Self-Love Wheel® provides professionals with:
A clear structure for self-love work
A shared language clients can understand and use
- A strengths-based, client-centered empowerment model
In short, this is a practical roadmap for rebuilding self-worth and inner safety.
This framework is now widely used by:
Therapists, coaches & educators
Mental health, social services, & IPV agencies
Treatment and recovery programs
University counseling centers
Trauma-informed organizations worldwide
What are the Six Dimensions of the Self-Love Wheel®?
Each dimension represents a distinct yet interconnected pillar of healthy self-love. Together, they create a holistic blueprint that addresses emotional, relational, cognitive, and identity-based healing.
🌿 1. Self-Care: Building safety, regulation, and nervous system support through consistent, compassionate care.
💛 2. Self-Worth: Reclaiming inherent value, especially for clients impacted by trauma, abuse, shame, or systemic harm.
🤍 3. Self-Compassion: Replacing self-criticism and internalized blame with kindness, understanding, and emotional repair.
🔍 4. Self-Discovery: Helping clients reconnect with identity, values, needs, and authentic self beyond survival roles.
🌱 5. Self-Esteem: Strengthening confidence, boundaries, voice, and healthy self-assertion.
✨ 6. Self-Growth: Supporting ongoing healing, expansion, and empowered life choices without pressure or perfectionism.
Each dimension includes practical strategies and applied exercises that meet clients exactly where they are.
Why the Self-Love Wheel® Framework Works in Professional Settings
The Self-Love Wheel® was designed specifically for real-world helping environments, not inspirational content consumption.
Professionals choose this framework because it is:
- Trauma-informed and evidence-based
- Strengths-based, client-centered empowerment model
- Culturally adaptable and diverse
- Easy to integrate into existing programs
- Suitable for individual, group, and organizational use
- Grounded in lived experience and clinical insight
It is especially effective for clients who:
Feel “high-functioning but broken inside”
Struggle with boundaries and people-pleasing
Carry deep shame or self-blame
Have survived abuse, neglect, trauma, or addiction
Are exhausted from “doing the work” without feeling whole
For Professionals and Organizations: Licensing Matters
The Self-Love Wheel® framework and tools are are copyrighted intellectual property and copyright licensing is required for using these resources at a professional level.
If you are using self-love tools with clients, students, staff, or program participants, ethical and legal use matters.
That’s why the Self-Love Wheel Licensing Suite® exists.
The Licensing Suite allows you to:
- Legally use and distribute Self-Love Wheel® tools
- Integrate them into therapy, coaching, groups, and programs
- Protect your organization and practice
- Save hundreds of hours creating materials from scratch
Licensing is available for individual professionals and solopreneurs; agencies; and multi-site organizations.
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Why Is the Self-Love Wheel® Program Trusted By Professionals
