The Befriend Annual Membership

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.

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.

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.

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.

•      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.

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!

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.

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.

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’.

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• 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.