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A compassion-based healing community for highly sensitive people. We empower recovery from fatigue, anxiety, trauma, burnout, and stress-based conditions with evidence based nervous system, mind and somatic practices. We help you befriend your mind, body, heart and nervous system so that you can experience that you are innately self-healing and whole.

Nature does not hurry and neither do we. We all heal in a non linear unique way so there is nothing to achieve here.

What’s included...

$349 per year
Available as 2 monthly payments of $175
or 3 monhtly payments of $120

We teach you evidence based skills to re-train the brain, regulate the nervous system and harmonise your mind-body connection to recover from chronic fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety, trauma and chronic illness.

Eight masterclasses that will teach you how to self-heal
Skills are top down (mind to body) and bottom up (body/somatic to mind).
Downloadable meditations and workbooks for each class
On demand learning at your own pace
Live classes and Q and A
Monthly visiting experts
Adept and trained to with childhood trauma (cptsd)
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Self-healers

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Adam
41, London

The work I did with Nadia changed my life. My health is in a better place than it ever was even though I have been through a really difficult few years.

Janani
28, UK

I am very grateful to have worked with Nadia in my recovery journey.

Stephanie
VA

Nadia is a brilliant, one-of-a-kind human!

Maria
43, MACOMB

I quite simply don’t know what I would have done, or where I’d be, without her.

Katherine
54, SANTA BARBARA

In the course of working with Nadia I have stopped seeing limitations or feeling overwhelm.

Kelsey
40, TORONTO

It is constant work but I feel for the first time in my life I have the freedom to be exactly who I want to be and create the life of my dreams.

Anne-Lacy
37, LONDON

Nadia’s support and guidance has brought me back to life in every sense of the phrase, and I’m now more vital than I’ve ever been.

Yuri
37, LOS ANGELES

Within two months my results were exponentially more than they had been doing 8 months of practicing alone.

Melissa
33

The single most important step in my recovery has been my introduction to Nadia.

Rachel
48, LONDON

Nadia has been a godsend!

Alex
33, PORTLAND

Her in-depth knowledge of trauma, and how this interacts with chronic illness, was life-changing for me to understand.

Sarah
23, LOS ANGELES

Nadia is without a doubt the reason I am recovering now.

What makes us different?

Biopsychosocialspiritual Approach

We support the resilience and flexibility of your nervous system to heal chronic symptoms, teach you how to befriend your mind; your personality patterns, thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and we honour unique social factors and spiritual connection (all faiths are welcome).

Compassion Based

We help people to stop leaving their inner wisdom to consume diets, programs, and supplements from a state of disembodied fear. To instead tend and Befriend their unique mind-body with compassion and curiosity in their daily lives.

Individualised Practices to Suit the Unique You

All our practices are focused on building your relationship with your mind and body, for symptom resolution, not dominating them. We particularly enjoy working with highly sensitive people (HSP’s). If you are doing other programs you are welcome here. This is a collaborative not a competitive space.

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The Befriend Classes For Trauma And Chronic Illness Recovery

1

Mindfulness In Daily Life

Daily accessible practices for resilience, less stress, better immune function, and a foundation of trauma healing.

2

Nervous System Healing

Nervous system mapping and stabilization/recalibration. Vagus nerve masterclass. Heartmath. Befriending emotions and needs

3

Befriend Personality Parts

Befriend personality patterns like inner criticism, pushing through, over helping, people pleasing; that can add to stress. Attachment healing.

4

Compassionate Neuroplasticity Practice

Healing the limbic system (stress response system). Compassion and consent based brain retraining. Working with parts, emotions and needs too.

5

Mindful Lifestyle

Mindful nutrition and lifestyle without dogma or fear. Trauma informed understanding of food and stress. Unshaming eating and how you live.

6

Somatic Experiencing

For feeling safer in our body, nervous system flexibility, holding vitality, boundaries and processing emotions. Somatic tracking.

7

C.A.R.S

Self compassion, radical acceptance, radical responsibility, surrender. Skills for a better life.

8

Microdosing Mushrooms Masterclass

All you need to safely microdose. Learn more.

Support with no pressure to achieve

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There are no levels and nothing to achieve. We believe achievement based healing is dehumanising.

You can work with the classes in the order they are presented or choose your own adventure. Take our quiz in our free ebook to learn which classes might be helpful for you.

Self-paced learning is held in community so that you can share your successes, challenges, and get questions answered by teachers. Live classes repeat throughout the year for you to learn and practice in daily life.

Monthly masterclasses by qualified expert teachers who will teach one of the Befriend pillars of practice in their own unique way to help you find what works for you.

Skills are both top down – mind to body, and bottom up – working to self-regulate and befriend through the body. These are complimented by depth psychology to connect with meaning and growth.

All bodies, ages, ethnicities, religions, sexual and gender orientations are welcome. There is no one way or best way to grow. There will be your unique way.

Our curriculum

Our classes are designed to 1) firstly stabilise your mind and body so you can start to feel better, and then 2) there is the choice go deeper into emotional healing and trauma recovery. You can do these classes self-paced and/or live with Nadia and other teachers.

01: Education on Mind-Body Illnesses and Mind-Body Medicine

Mind-Body Medicine – Learn how you can heal and thrive. The science and thepractices of mind-body recovery and stress resilience.‍

Mind-Body Syndromes – Learn how these conditions develop with a trauma informed approach, map your own experience, and learn how to support the mind-body system to self-heal.

How We Heal – Understand how to approach your recovery in a way that is kind and sustainable. We will show you how to create a gentle flexible daily practice that you can tailor for your needs andyour current health. There is no ‘right’ or ‘best’ way.

02: Mindfulness In daily life

Cultivating focused attention, kind intention, open awareness for less anxiety and depression, more resilience, brain healing, and increased joy. This is the foundation of trauma healing too.

If you are neurodivergent or just can’t sit still, we have other ways alongside meditation to bring mindfulness into your life.

03: Self-compassion, Radical acceptance, Letting go, Radical responsibility

Self-compassion – Research indicates it is one of the most powerful sources of coping and resilience, radically improving our mental and physical well-being.

Radical Acceptance – Let go of judgement and resistance that may be keeping you trapped in a cycle of suffering.

Letting Go – Surrender what is out of our control and allow ourselves to feel and heal.

Radical Responsibility – Radical responsibility is a trans-blame model; it is stepping out of the blame and shame paradigm altogether.

04: Nervous System Healing

Befriend your nervous system – We teach you to build a relationship with your nervous system, to encourage it in its innate ability to self-organise, not dominate it. This includes understanding how our family history and social contexts influence our nervous system responses.

Mapping your mind-body states – Nervous system mapping. Understand the daily story of your nervous system so you can Befriend it.

Vagus Nerve Exercises – For more resilience and flexibility day-to-day.

05: Somatic Experiencing

•      Increase your ability to self-regulate – To safely feel emotion, hold boundaries, regulate stress responses, and be safely embodied (at home in our body) in the present moment. This relationship with our body is much more important than 'doing somatic skills'.

•      Somatic Tracking/pain reprocessing therapy– Healing chronic pain, anxiety and stress-based symptoms.

06: Befriending Your Personality Parts

Befriend your personality traits and parts, so you can see how they add to your illness cycle and stress responses. No parts are bad. All parts are welcome.

‍Perfectionists, achievers, workaholics, achievers, helpers, people-pleasers, and inner critics, this is for you!

07: Befriending Emotions and Needs

Self-Expression – Nervous system dysregulation can often be unexpressed feelings and needs, it can have messages for us. The healing power of feeling and expressing emotions with words, art, movement, and journaling specifically designed for mind body conditions.‍

NVC – Nonviolent communication to build bridges with yourself and others.

08: Compassion Based Neuroplasticity Practice

Neural Retraining Practice – For people with environmental illnesses, fatigue, sensitivities, burnout, and stuck patterns from stress.

This includes somatic skills so that we are not overriding the body. It is a consent-based way to help create more safety in the mind and body system.

09: Mindful Lifestyle

Nutrition and lifestyle without dogma – Learn to work with your unique body without fearing food or being out in the world.

Herbs to support healing – Learn about the healing power of plants, honouring them as intelligent guides, not as something to consume or ‘treat’.

10: Microdosing Masterclass

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Bonus Sections – Working with flares and triggers and HSP self-care tips
  • Practices and reminders for the tough times, which are inevitable and never a sign of failure.
  • Practices for being highly sensitive and thriving in the world.
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About the membership

An introduction to our community

What we are not

There are no marketing gimmicks of this being the ‘best’ or ‘only’ way, or some kind of proprietary special sauce designed to appeal to vulnerable populations. We teach you practices that help you experience that your body is innately self-healing and that you are the special sauce and source of your recovery.

We are passionately against all forms of gurus, people packaging healing in expensive ways when it belongs to us all, any ideology that inspires fear, including diets, lifestyles, and shame-based religious doctrine. We do not support psychedelic plant teachers being turned into consumerism. We invite you to join us in spotting the bullshit and instead finding our own authentic paths in life that help us be more unashamedly ourselves—together.

“We’re all just walking each other home.”

Ram Dass
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