The Befriend annual membership
Recover from chronic fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety, stress, fibromyalgia, and other environmental illness through proven neuroplastic and mind-body methods.
We guide you to move beyond symptom management and 'nervous system regulation' and into true recovery; by compassionately reconnecting with your body, rewiring your brain, and rebuilding lasting resilience.
You are not broken. Healing is possible
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If you’ve lived with chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, or unexplained symptoms, you may have been told it’s all in your head, or that your body is malfunctioning. The evidence-based truth is far more hopeful. Neuroplastic conditions, also called central sensitisation, TMS, or mind-body syndromes; are real physical conditions caused by changes in the brain and nervous system, rather than by structural damage.
They often happen after illness, injury, environmental exposure, chronic stressor, or trauma. Our system can easily get stuck in a chronic state of alarm, causing body wide often very severe symptoms, until we learn how to heal this cycle. At Befriend, we help people retrain the brain and body out of protection mode, restoring their natural capacity for recovery, through neuroscience-based skills, that anyone can learn. If you are highly sensitive (an HSP), this community run by HSP's and really welcomes you.
They often happen after illness, injury, environmental exposure, chronic stressor, or trauma. Our system can easily get stuck in a chronic state of alarm, causing body wide often very severe symptoms, until we learn how to heal this cycle. At Befriend, we help people retrain the brain and body out of protection mode, restoring their natural capacity for recovery, through neuroscience-based skills, that anyone can learn. If you are highly sensitive (an HSP), this community run by HSP's and really welcomes you.
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Conditions
we work with
Chronic pain- Chronic fatigue (CFS/ME)
- IBS and gut issues
- Anxiety and panic
- Migraines
- Fibromyalgia
- Environmental, food, or mould sensitivities
- Post exertion malaise (PEM)
- POTS syndrome
- Chronic infections like EBV/Lyme disease
- Brain fog or dizziness
- Long COVID and post viral conditins
- Multiple chemical sensitivity
- Skin Issues
- Burnout
- Interstitial Cystitis
- Loss of resilience
- Trauma/cPTSD
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Your symptoms are real, and protective.
Your symptoms are real, and protective.
The amygdala, an almond shaped structure in the limbic system of the brain, is your internal alarm. It constantly evaluates your body and surroundings for danger. When it senses threat; whether physical (like infection) or emotional (like rejection or loss), it triggers an alarm (your stress response).
Usually after the danger passes, this alarm switches off and the body goes into a state of rest and repair. Sometimes, after trauma, stress, or illness, it does not get the "all clear'"and remains on alert. When it continues to send signals of danger, we notice chronic fatigue, chronic pain, chronic infections, and other symptoms that do not resolve on their own.
“Your symptoms aren’t in your head — they’re in your nervous system’s memory.”
In a fast-paced, overstimulated world, it’s easy for our system to become overloaded and stuck in a state of protection; creating pain, exhaustion, anxiety, and sensitivity. This is reversible. It is not your fault or a weakness.
How the Brain LearnsAnd Unlearns Symptoms.
The nervous system is highly adaptive. It learns safety or danger based on repetition. When danger circuits are activated repeatedly, they grow stronger. In neuroscience, this can be summed as: “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
Over time, as these pathways strengthen, the brain starts to associate normal sensations and stimuli with danger; triggering protective responses that cause symptoms. Movement, sensations, thoughts, smells, going outside, can all become triggers.
This is not weakness or damage, it’s protection, often developed in response to real past overwhelm or lack of safety. This is called central sensitisation. As this cycle gets more efficient, our symptoms tend to worsen over time. With the right support, you can retrain your brain to guide your body to feel safe, at ease, and resilient again.
This is not weakness or damage, it’s protection, often developed in response to real past overwhelm or lack of safety. This is called central sensitisation. As this cycle gets more efficient, our symptoms tend to worsen over time. With the right support, you can retrain your brain to guide your body to feel safe, at ease, and resilient again.
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The way out
We teach you to listen to your body’s intelligence, not control it. You don’t need to fight, fix, achieve, or over regulate to heal. Through neuroplasticity; the brain’s ability to change and rewire; your nervous system and body can unlearn the protective pathways that are causing pain, fatigue, and other symptoms.
Our approach integrates neuroscience, brain re-training, somatic therapy, and depth psychology, in simple practices easily integrated into your days, that will shape your brain to heal your body. Think of your health like a seedling that we surround with a healthy environment so that it can naturally grow home to health. Your body will respond to gentle care, addressing a little at a time in the following areas:
Our approach integrates neuroscience, brain re-training, somatic therapy, and depth psychology, in simple practices easily integrated into your days, that will shape your brain to heal your body. Think of your health like a seedling that we surround with a healthy environment so that it can naturally grow home to health. Your body will respond to gentle care, addressing a little at a time in the following areas:
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See How It WorksWhat you’ll notice after joining
Changes in the Mind
A calmer, clearer mind that
no longer spirals into fear or self-blame
no longer spirals into fear or self-blame
Less health anxiety and fewer “what if” thoughts about symptoms
Improved focus and mental energy as your nervous system stabilizes
More self-compassion and emotional resilience in everyday stress
Changes in the Body
Reduced pain flare-ups and fatigue, bouncing back faster from flares
Decreased sensitivity to stress, noise, or environmental triggers
More stable energy and improved sleep quality
A renewed sense of safety, ease, and confidence in your body
Changes in Daily Life
Feeling more present and less reactive in relationships and work
A deeper trust that your body can recover, without pushing or forcing
Greater connection to joy, creativity, and meaning
Hope and clarity replacing the confusion and isolation of chronic illness
Befriend isn’t about fixing what’s wrong. It’s about teaching your body it’s finally safe to rest, move, feel and heal.
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What you will Learn
Classes are structured in simple pathways, to help you feel better as soon as possible.
Pathway 1 – Stabilise,
Pathway 2 - Heal The Symptom Cycle,
Pathway 3 - Grow Your Energy And Wellbeing.
We have both self-paced video classes and live sessions, so you can choose how you best learn. You can take a class per week, or a class per month, whatever works for you depending on your needs and current capacity. You have 12 months so there is no rush or pressure.
We find the community aspect helps people feel seen, understood, and supported as they practice and recover. We also have fun together, which is needed in recovery and in life.
Pathway 1 – Stabilise,
Pathway 2 - Heal The Symptom Cycle,
Pathway 3 - Grow Your Energy And Wellbeing.
We have both self-paced video classes and live sessions, so you can choose how you best learn. You can take a class per week, or a class per month, whatever works for you depending on your needs and current capacity. You have 12 months so there is no rush or pressure.
We find the community aspect helps people feel seen, understood, and supported as they practice and recover. We also have fun together, which is needed in recovery and in life.
Pathway 1
Stabilise
Experience reassurance that recovery is possible, gently guide your body into a self-healing state in easy ways; for less symptoms and more stability
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Simple
Education
Build belief that recovery is possible for you
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Change Your Approach
Learn to heal with empowerment, compassion and trust, not control or pressure
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Daily Somatic Mindfulness
Reduce symptoms, stabilize energy, and improve mood.
Pathway 2
Heal the symptom cycle
Retrain your brain to stop generating neuroplastic symptoms like pain, fatigue, and anxiety without forcing or over-regulating.
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Somatic Tracking / Pain Reprocessing
Retrain your brain to interpret body signals accurately, to heal symptoms of pain, fatigue, anxiety, all neuroplastic symptoms. No achievement focus and nothing to get right!
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Compassionate Brain Retraining
Interrupt the patterns that keep pain, fatigue, and other symptoms active; and noticing the thoughts, beliefs, and loops that feed them. This heals the stress circuits that create your symptoms, and rebuilds safety and ease
Pathway 3
Grow your energy and wellbeing
Learn to engage in life with more ease, self-acceptance, and resilience. And grow the embodied capacity to integrate trauma.
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Befriending
Personality Patterns
Transform people-pleasing, over-effort, perfectionism, that add to the symptom cycle.
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Somatic
Experiencing
Safely build the capacity to process trauma, hold boundaries, restore vitality, feel emotions safely
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Befriending
Emotions & Needs
Your brain can misread emotions or unmet needs as danger, triggering symptoms. Teach your brain that emotions are safe, so it stops creating symptoms.
Bonus Classes
that support brain and body repair through practical, evidence-based tools.
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Mindful Lifestyle
Learn how rhythm, rest, and nourishment strengthen healing and resilience, without fear-based rules or restriction.
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Vagus Nerve Masterclass
Understand the science of the vagus nerve and how to activate your body’s innate self-healing capacity through simple daily practices.
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Microdosing Masterclass
Explore emerging research and practical guidance on how microdosing may support neuroplasticity, emotional balance, and growth.
What you receive
Simple path course (Jan 2026)
Short, effective, beginner-friendly course
8 Core classes
Step-by-step video lessons
12 Months access
Return anytime for reinforcement
Downloadable audio guides & worksheets
Easy frameworks for home use
Supportive community forum
Share progress and encouragement
2 Live group calls monthly
Guided sessions, deep dives, all calls recorded
Pricing
At Befriend, recovery is a human right, not a privilege. Our affordability is both an act of care, and a commitment to removing the barriers between people and healing.
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