Rachel Abrams – Your BodyWise Path to Healing

During your first class with Dr. Rachel, you’ll discover what cultivating integrity, resilience, and beauty in your life and relationships really means — and how that can play out in your life, specifically.

During this first class, you’ll also:

• Discover and implement the 4-step process to becoming body intelligent
• Navigate your decisions using the Right Relationship framework
• Dive deep into the reasons you need body intelligence — and why you’ve lost touch with it
• Listen to the language of your body and learn how to heal yourself
• Align with your evolutionary health — and the life your body was made for
• Become fluent in your own body intelligence — the powerful tool you’ll be using as a compass to navigate your life map of relationships
• Explore why figuring out what was going on when your grandmother was pregnant with your bio mom — and when your mom was pregnant with you — can unlock powerful information about your health

Using plenty of patient stories and real-life examples, Dr. Rachel will explore the multitude of influences that impact your health, and how the 5 Fundamentals of Health — Eat, Sleep, Move, Love, and Purpose — underlie your ability to heal.

It’s time to tackle the real-life medical issues you’ve been facing. Dr. Rachel will collect information from you and your fellow participants at the beginning of the class so it will be tailored to your specific needs.

She’ll walk you through a truly integrative approach, including a thorough examination of the contribution of the 5 Fundamentals of Health for each person (Eat, Sleep, Move, Love, and Purpose), using actual patient stories — and possibly even your story!

This week, you’ll also discover:

• How your eating habits can better align with your evolutionary nature — and what your body was built for
• The reason sleep is the most important factor in preventing your cells from aging
• Why moving your body is VITAL for your physical and mental health
• How your relationships with others affect your digestion and immunity
• Why you’re tired — and what you can do about it
• The most important ways to understand and address your stress and anxiety
• How to take good care of the bacterial cells in your body… and why they’re actually your closest friends
• How your earth-belly, your own microbiome (the bacteria in your gut), relates to the microbiome in your sink — and in your yard, garden, and more
• How more nature — animals, dirt, mushrooms — can improve your immune system

Dr. Rachel will cover all the most common health complaints, including fatigue, stress and anxiety, digestive issues, and allergy and autoimmune issues — and how each of these is connected to your “not-so-right” relationships to your body, the people in your life, and the world…

You’ll also consider the implications of genetics, epigenetics, personal history, and ancestry — and use the best of modern medicine and functional medicine to understand each issue.

In this session, you’ll use your body intelligence to identify your most important health challenge — and design a strategy for surrounding it with all the attention and support it needs to heal.

Did you know that data suggests that your social contacts and the love in your life are more important to your health than any other lifestyle factor? This week, you’ll dig into the neurobiology of how love heals you — and what’s happening with the current waves of depression, anxiety, hatred, and violence in our world.

You’ll also discover why:

• We need each other: oxytocin, prolactin, and the neuro story of love and affection
• The U.S. is the most anxious nation on earth — and what we can do about it
• Using a “pill for the ill” helped create the current mental health crisis
• Your social network can keep you from getting a cold… or cancer…
• It’s time to master the 4 steps to restoring right relationship:
  • Perspective
  • Acceptance of What Is
  • Compassion
  • Discernment (connection or letting go)
• Introversion, overwhelm, and the need to be alone are often misunderstood

Come prepared to assess your own social relationships and strategize ways to improve your social support with Dr. Rachel’s guidance — or maybe figure out how to have more solitude, depending on your situation.

Genetics are certainly important, but did you know they only determine 10% of your health outcomes? However, epigenetics — the social influence on gene expression — has a lasting and even intergenerational effect on everyone.

This week, you’ll discover how your romantic relationships and spousal relationships play a big part in determining your health — it’s more complex than you think! You’ll also practice using the 4 Steps to Right Relationship with an important person in your life.

You’ll also discover:

• Why figuring out what was going on when your grandmother was pregnant with your bio mom — and when your mom was pregnant with you — can unlock powerful information about your health
• How your intrauterine experience can influence your health, your susceptibility to disease, and even your temperament and intelligence for the rest of your life
• Why it’s important to think through whether there were any traumas or deprivations in your familial line
• How to use this information to create right relationships with your family and your romantic partner
• The “red flags” to be avoided in any relationship

As a human being, you are nature itself — from the smallest subatomic particle… to the water that flows through you like tiny river arteries… to the 50 trillion bacterial cells that are your necessary companions. Indeed, you are a walking rainforest of life… and not just human life, but bacteria, fungi, and archaea life as well.

Your human body produces pheromones that affect the other humans, animals, and even plants around you — and vice versa.

People were made to be outside — with other living beings, and with circadian rhythms and menstrual cycles coordinated by the moon and sun. It’s no wonder there are hundreds of known benefits to being in the presence of other natural life!

This week, you’ll discover how to access the healing in your own body through finding your right place in nature as you:

• Discover how body wisdom plugs you into the healing intelligence, beauty, and resilience of nature
• Learn about the deep interconnections of trees — how they mother their young and communicate — a world wide web, just like ours
• Reclaim your own human animal nature through the 8 Gateways to Embodiment and Nature Connection
• Find your “get-in, get-healed” nature plan
• Discover your natural exercise — how you can move in a way that’s in alignment with your nature
• Learn about neurotoxins in our food supply and rising rates of neurological disorders, such as autism, ADD and learning disorders, anxiety, and Alzheimer’s disease
• Find out how to create a non-toxic home
• Learn how to detoxify naturally

As you reach this final session, you’ll be ready to put it all together.

Using your body intelligence as your guide, you’ll determine exactly what you need for your psychological and physical health and relationships.

You’ll also set intentions for how you can impact your 5 Fundamentals of Health so you can experience more vitality and resilience.

During this final week, you’ll:

• See yourself in your world-connected context and in the lineage of your ancestry
• Understand the wisdom your body has for you around your health and purpose in the world
• Find community — to live like a normal human animal!
• Allow yourself to be loved
• Decide what you want to give to the world — and what you might be able to give when you are loved, bodywise, and connected to the worldwide web of nature

Dr. Rachel will lead you through an Inner Smile heart meditation to help guide you in your love and relationships. As you’ll discover, a change at any level affects all the levels.

Finally, Dr. Rachel will end with an exercise in finding your purpose — on choosing the area of life in which you’re willing to commit to working in right relationship with integrity, resilience, and beauty.