Resources

Start Where You Are.
Take One Step Forward.

You don’t need to have it all figured out before you begin. Whether you're just discovering this work or returning for deeper support, these resources are here to help you reconnect, reset, and take action.

Each tool below is designed to meet you where you are. Choose the entry point that fits your moment — and let it guide you toward your next chapter.

Free Quiz + Personalized Results

The Soul Care SWOT™ is a starting point for people who feel functional, but stuck. It’s a short, guided self-assessment designed to reveal your internal landscape — your Strengths, Wounds, Obstacles, and Triggers — and how they might be holding you in place.

Through your personalized results, you’ll begin to name what’s been hard to explain. You’ll get language, insight, and a starting point for the work ahead.

Soul Care SWOT™ Assessment

You’ll receive:

→ A customized SWOT profile
→ Clear insight into emotional and behavioral patterns
→ Practical next steps to begin building self-leadership

Graphic of a tablet and phone showing the Soul Care SWOT™ workbook interface, alongside text promoting a free self-assessment by coach Matilde Hernandez of Dare 2 Lift It.

This is a focused, actionable first step toward meaningful change.

Beyond These Walls

A Guide for Reclaiming Your Story and Reinventing Your Life
By Matilde Hernandez
Paperback & Digital Available

Part memoir, part guidebook — Beyond These Walls invites readers into Matilde’s personal journey through shame, resilience, identity loss, and leadership. It’s a book for people who have outgrown their past but haven’t yet stepped fully into their future.

You’ll find reflection prompts, practical strategies, and emotional language that helps you process what you may have never been able to say out loud. This book offers a window into transformation — and a roadmap for your own.

This is for anyone ready to live again, with clarity, courage, and a reclaimed sense of self.

Inside the book:

→ Tools for self-forgiveness and emotional release
→ Strategies for shifting identity patterns and building self-trust
→ Reflections on shame, healing, family, incarceration, and reinvention
→ Practical exercises and journal prompts to help you apply the work
→ A reminder that your story doesn’t end where the damage was done

Wisdom in Real Time

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Instagram is where Matilde shares her real-time insights, grounding practices, hard truths, and reminders that land when you need them most. It’s a resource for regular encouragement, storytelling, and perspective — especially for people walking through growth in public.

If you want to stay connected, this is the space to do it.

Weekly Reflection Prompts

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Weekly Reflection Prompts