A compassion-based healing community supporting recovery from fatigue, anxiety, trauma, and stress-based conditions. Befriend your whole self with evidence-based mind-body skills so that you can experience that you are innately resilient, self-healing and whole.
We are collaborative, not competitive, so you are welcome if you are doing other programs or ways of healing.
Work with Nadia or one of our affiliated practitioners to get tailored expert support for burnout, anxiety, life transitions, stress and trauma based conditions. Mentoring also available for professionals.
Rest into a transformative journey that teaches you evidence-based skills for healing the mind, body, heart and nervous system, empowering you to thrive. No achievement focus or pressure, and plenty of support.
A trauma informed, evidence based microdosing masterclass grounded in reverence for plant medicine and the wisdom of nature. Free access to a community discussion space.
Physical and mental health cannot be separated as we are an integrated system. Befriend has practices for mind, nervous system, body, and spirit. You are more than a nervous system needing to be regulated. You have gifts, strengths, a deep connection to nature, and a unique path.
The body will re-organise when it feels safe. Our deepest foundation is compassion, to help you stop consuming programs, diets, and treatments from disembodied fear. To instead approach your body and all parts of you with compassion and curiosity. There is nothing to achieve with us.
Our practices are focused on building a trusting relationship with your mind and body, not dominating them. There is no right way. There is no best way. We will help you find your way. Each person is unique and so we do not prescribe a set program. You have choice and agency here.
Chronic fatigue
Anxiety
Depression
Chronic Pain
Environmental Sensitivities
Fibromyalgia
Burnout
Post Viral Syndrome
Often in fight/flight/freeze
Trauma/CPTSD
Digestive issues/IBS
Poor self-relationship
Environmental illnesses
Loss of resilience
These symptoms are natural responses to chronic stress, late-stage capitalism, loss of healthy community, and disconnection from nature. We must stop pathologizing and labelling the individual, rather than acknowledging the environments and systems that create these conditions. The conventional medical system teaches us to fear our bodily signals (symptoms), but they are a wise source of information when we learn to compassionately listen.
Neuroscience research has shown that these conditions involve a chronic stress response, which can keep the body and mind in a loop of chronic illness and failure to thrive. The reasons for this protective stress response will be unique for each person and often contain deep lessons and growth.
Fortunately, via our innate ability to harness neuroplasticity (the brain and nervous system’s ability to change and adapt due to new experience and learning), we can actively guide our brain, mind and body, to empower self-healing.
From compassion and curiosity about our lives, ourselves and our body, we can become our own medicine.
Nature does not hurry so neither should we. Our membership is annual, so there is no pressure for results and plenty of space to unfold. The cost is low at $379 a year to due our trauma-informed commitment as an organisation, which honours accessibility as a cornerstone of individual and community healing.
We believe healing comes from building trusting reciprocal relationships with ourselves, our bodies, each other and our beautiful home planet that gives us life.
We educate first as this is part of recovery for everyone we work with, and then teach simple evidence-based mind-body practices that are easy to integrate into life, that have empowered hundreds of people we work with to self-heal.
You can do each class in the order they are set or choose your own adventure. Not everyone needs everything. We will help you find what feels good to your unique mind-body being. Simple daily practices, over time, change lives.
We offer self-paced online learning, live classes ,masterclasses from visiting experts, and spaces to connect with others like you. We encourage humour, play and no achievement focus.
Our articles are designed to educate and empower you and are rooted in our biopsychosocialspiritual approach to health and growth. Psychoeducation is an evidence-based part of recovery from mental health challenges, trauma, and chronic illness.
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