Resourcing Yourself for the Journey
Care for entrepreneur mental health is core business strategy.
A book for women entrepreneurs who have read all the business books, tried all the wellness trends, and are still white-knuckling it.
From Shulamit Ber Levtov, The Entrepreneurs’ Therapist™, whose mental health framework has been taught at incubators and business programs across Canada and the US.
Arriving May 2027. Sign up to get early access.
You learned to read a balance sheet first
Nobody handed you a manual for your nervous system.
You learned cash flow. Pricing. Positioning. Hiring.
You learned to read the numbers, the market, the room.
But not your inner state.
So when the exhaustion arrives, or you feel that dread before opening your inbox, or you’re facing another decision you cannot make no matter how long you sit with it, there’s no framework for that. Just the suspicion that you’re the problem.
66% of Canadian entrepreneurs report feeling depressed at least once a week.
You’re not the exception.
Your mental and emotional wellbeing is not separate from your business. It's infrastructure.
Resourcing Yourself for the Journey is built on the premise that your mental health is a core pillar of your business, not a personal side project.
This book takes the mental health challenges that come with entrepreneurship seriously as conditions of the work, not as personal failings.
Offering concrete, nervous-system-aware tools, this book is the antidote to generic self-care and mindset work.
It’s built for the conditions you’re actually in.
This isn't a feeling. It's a documented condition.
46%
of Canadian entrepreneurs say mental health issues have interfered with their ability to work.
49%
of US entrepreneurs surveyed reported having a mental health condition.
476
entrepreneurs were surveyed by the Canadian Mental Health Association and BDC in 2019.
CMHA and BDC's conclusion: mental health is a missing priority in Canada's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The research has been clear for years. Business planning hasn’t caught up.
Resourcing Yourself for the Journey helps close that gap.
The plan at the centre of the book
Resourcing Yourself for the Journey walks you through building your own Entrepreneur Mental Health Business Plan: what it is, why it belongs alongside your marketing plan and your financial plan, and how to make one that fits your actual capacity.
I developed the plan for a San Diego incubator, and it’s been refined over years of teaching entrepreneurs at incubators and business programs across Canada and the US, including District 3, ChaiTech, MaRS Discovery District, and the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics.
It’s the thing my clients come back to. In the good weeks and the hard ones. Now it’s a book.
Resourcing Yourself for the Journey is for you if…
- You've read the self-help, the business books, the productivity systems
- You've tried the wellness trends, and some of them even helped, briefly
- Your business looks solid from the outside
- Inside, you're holding it together by force
- You're tired of advice written for someone with a team, a spouse who handles everything, and no nervous system
If any part of you is thinking, “I know all the mental health tips and tricks already and I still can’t do it,” this book was written for you.
Be First
The book arrives May 2027. Before that, I’ll send subscribers a sneak peek of the introduction, ahead of everyone else.
You’ll also hear about pre-order, launch dates, and early reader opportunities as they happen.
You’ll also receive my occasional letters on entrepreneur mental health. You can leave the list at any time.
Hi, I’m Shulamit Ber Levtov (she/her)
You can call me Shula.
I’m known as The Entrepreneurs’ Therapist™. I’m a Registered Social Worker in Ontario, with a Master’s degree in Counselling and Spirituality and decades of experience in trauma-informed care, somatic work, and entrepreneurial mental health.
I’ve been running my own businesses since 1989 and working in mental health since 2000. I now work with women entrepreneurs, helping them stay mentally and emotionally steady while they ride the emotional rollercoaster of running a business.
I speak and teach about the intersection of mental health, trauma, financial psychology, and entrepreneurship across Canada and the US.
I wrote this book because it didn’t exist, and women entrepreneurs needed it to.
Taught across North America since 2021
Taught at incubators, entrepreneurship programs, and conferences across Canada and the United States since 2021, including:
Questions about the book
What is Resourcing Yourself for the Journey about?
Resourcing Yourself for the Journey is a book about entrepreneur mental health as core business strategy. It argues that the emotional and psychological demands of running a business are conditions of the work rather than personal failings, and it provides nervous-system-aware tools designed specifically for entrepreneurs. Its central practical framework is the Entrepreneur Mental Health Business Plan,
When is the book published?
May 2027. Sign up above and you’ll hear about pre-order and launch before anyone else.
What do I get right now?
Advance notice, and a sneak peek. Subscribers get the first look at the introduction before it’s public, plus early word on pre-order dates and launch. In between, I send occasional letters on entrepreneur mental health.
Who wrote Resourcing Yourself for the Journey?
Shulamit Ber Levtov, MA, RSW, CCC, CFSW, known as The Entrepreneurs’ Therapist™. She is a Registered Social Worker in Ontario and a masters-level trauma therapist who works with women entrepreneurs. She has run her own businesses since 1989 and has worked in mental health since 2000.
Who is the book for?
Women entrepreneurs, business owners, freelancers, consultants, creatives, and service providers who carry significant emotional, financial, and leadership responsibility. It’s written particularly for readers who have already tried therapy, coaching, mindset work, or productivity systems and found that the change didn’t hold.
What is an Entrepreneur Mental Health Business Plan?
An Entrepreneur Mental Health Business Plan is a written plan for your mental and emotional wellbeing, built the same way you’d build a marketing plan or a financial plan. It identifies the conditions affecting your mental health, the practices that resource you, and the lead and lag indicators you’ll use to track how you’re actually doing. It sits alongside the rest of your business planning rather than separate from it.
What are The 7 Risk Factors of Entrepreneur Mental Health?
The 7 Risk Factors of Entrepreneur Mental Health are the seven forces Shulamit Ber Levtov has identified as most consistently threatening the mental health of entrepreneurs, drawn from her clinical work and from the research literature. They include isolation and predisposition, among others. The book explains each one and how they interact.
What are The Three Principles of Stress Resilience?
Soothe, Discharge, and Nourish. Soothe is what helps your mind and body settle. Discharge is how you move stress out of your body and your emotions out of your system. Nourish is what genuinely renews and fulfills you. Together they form the practice layer of the Entrepreneur Mental Health Business Plan.
Is there research behind this?
Yes. The book draws on published research on entrepreneur mental health, including the Canadian Mental Health Association and BDC’s 2019 Going It Alone report, which surveyed 476 entrepreneurs and concluded that mental health is a missing priority in Canada’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, and on the work of psychiatrist Michael A. Freeman, whose research examines the relationship between entrepreneurial traits and mental health conditions. Sources are listed at the foot of this page and cited throughout the book.
Is this a therapy book or a business book?
It’s both, on purpose. It’s written for the woman running the business, about the part of the business that is her. It belongs on the same shelf as your business planning books, not in the self-help section.
How is this different from other books about burnout?
Most burnout books are written for employees, and most entrepreneur books skip mental health entirely. This one is written for the specific conditions of entrepreneurship: financial precarity, decision fatigue, isolation, the absence of anyone above you to escalate to, and the fact that your income and your identity are the same thing. It also gives you a plan to build rather than a philosophy to adopt.
Do I have to be in therapy with you to use it?
No. The book stands on its own and is designed for self-guided use.
Will there be an audiobook?
Details on formats will be announced closer to publication. Sign up above and you’ll hear as soon as it’s confirmed.
How do I pre-order?
Pre-order isn’t open yet. The list above is the first place it will be announced.
First Look, First Word
May 2027 is a long way off. You don’t have to wait until then to hear from me. Subscribe for updates as the book makes its way into the world, and a sneak peek of the introduction before anyone else.
You’ll also receive my occasional letters on entrepreneur mental health. You can leave the list at any time.
SOURCES:
Canadian Mental Health Association and BDC, Going It Alone, 2019.
Additional statistics and their sources are cited in full at shula.ca/mental-health-entrepreneurship/