Ten Years Later: What I Found, What I Set Down, and What I’m Ready to Bring Back

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When I saw that ten year anniversary of online teaching, I got curious. Ten years is a long time to hold onto stories, materials, and ideas, so I started digging through my archives. And the more I poked around, the more I realized just how much has lived inside this work.

Progressions.
Frameworks.
Kangaroo Care.
Bridging Movement and Babywearing.
Creative Classes for your Community.
Babywearing Summer Camp.
Wearing Two at Once.
Preemie Paradigm.

Workshops I poured my whole heart into. Trainings I taught again and again because I loved them and because you loved them. I dug out old course files, found notes and outlines, and felt a mix of loss and possibility.

Of course, it is not really a mystery to me.

That first online course was not even a babywearing course. I was not ready for that. I started small with a Kangaroo Care course for babywearing educators. I opened 30 seats and had no idea how it would go.

Not because of the content. Babywearing educators absolutely need to understand what Kangaroo Care offers our clients and their babies. What I questioned was whether I could create a premium, heart centered learning experience that still felt like community in a fully online format.

Could we build that across screens and time zones
Would people truly learn and retain this knowledge from home

I was not convinced.
But Bianca was.
And I was curious.
So we took the risk and tested it.

What I learned from that very first class surprised me. It was the students' commitment, curiosity, and willingness to embrace the online platform and one another that made this possible. They were the ones who proved it could work.

And remember, there was no Zoom ten years ago. After that first course, everything started to change, but I still spent three more years traveling and teaching Foundations in person before I figured out how to create the online environment I wanted.

Now hundreds of people have come through CBWS programs, bringing this work into their communities with so much integrity and heart. We have created over 40 small, supportive, cohort based online communities.

And as I looked back through course after course in my archives, I realized I am ready to revisit some of them. There are pieces many of you still talk about, and I am excited to refresh them and bring some forward in 2026.

I also found myself reflecting on why so many of these beloved courses were set aside for a while. The year before I purchased the course platform, my mom went in for a simple surgical procedure that turned into sepsis and a very long road to recovery. That same year, my dad’s cancer came back. I wanted and needed to work, but travel was becoming too heavy. That is when we tested the platform.

I lost my dad. Then COVID came. Then I lost my mom. And the years after COVID were the hardest. It was a season that asked me to set things down, even the things I loved.

I never walked away completely. I focused on what I could do well and left the rest for later. I chose my family over teaching everything on autopilot.

Today I feel my life opening up again. I have space, energy, and excitement to move out of preservation mode and into the next chapter. Some of the old favorites from the archives are coming back, refreshed and expanded. New content I have been working on is coming too.

2026 is going to be a fun year at CBWS, and I am glad you are here with me.