When everyone has an opinion about your body, it's hard to believe yourself.
WHY BYB?
Chronic illness doesn't just change your body. It changes your relationship with yourself.
When you're regularly questioning your symptoms, wondering if you're overreacting, or grieving the life you thought you'd have, it's easy to lose trust in yourself.
Believe Your Body helps you rebuild that trusting relationship by moving through grief, acceptance, advocacy, joy, and ultimately self-trust.
I know what it’s like to question.
To ask yourself:
“Is it even thaaaaat bad?”
"What if I’m making this up?”
“Am I overreacting?”
“Will other people believe me?”
Over time, it starts to feel like you can’t trust yourself to know what you need or what the heck is going on in your body.
Me in Migraine City a few years ago thinking, “It’s not that bad… I should just get back to work.”
Believe Your Body
is a great fit for you if:
The grief of wishing for a different body feels intense and you’re not sure where to begin
A part of you wants illness acceptance… but you’re also scared it means “giving up”
Your needs change day-to-day, so advocating for and accommodating yourself feels like a puzzle
You feel you can’t spend energy on joy unless you’re better, or being joyful feels uncomfy
Your diagnosis (new or old) has shifted how you see yourself, and you're not sure who you are in this body now.
You’re ready to believe your symptoms the first time.
🌻 What will we do? 🌻
This is where it gets fun! Or sad! Or confusing.
Every emotion is welcome.
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5 modules with video lessons
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Handouts for deepening and reflection
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Lifetime access to all course material
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Monthly drop-in Zoom calls
Over 5 modules, we’ll move through the Joyful Acceptance Method™️ that I use with myself and my 1:1 coaching clients.
In each module, you’ll leave with concrete, practical tools you can apply immediately.
Each module focuses on a different part of the chronic illness acceptance process so you can build more trust in your experience.
Module 1
Why is it so difficult to believe your body?
There is a complicated web of reasons! Once you’re aware, your view of the world and your experience changes.
Module 2
Grieve What’s Been Lost
Grief is sneaky. We’ll learn what grief sounds like, how it impacts you, and how to hold it without overwhelming yourself.
Module 3
Acknowledge & Accept Your Reality
Acceptance is misunderstood out there in the world. We’ll talk about what acceptance actually means (and what it doesn’t), why it can be so difficult, and how to move toward it.
Module 4
Understand & Advocate for Your Needs
Advocacy sounds difficult, and it can be. We’ll build your capacity to understand your needs and feel more comfortable communicating them to others. This CHANGES THE GAME.
Module 5
Reconnect with Joy & Self-Trust
Chronic illness can take a lot from you. We honor that. But we’ll also explore ways to gently bring it back into your life.
What People Are Saying about Believe Your Body
“There is so much grief living with a chronic illness, without processing that grief it is very hard to connect to joy. This course really allowed me to access that grief and start metabolizing it. I have been in therapy for years, yet was unable to access and process the grief.”
-Course Participant“Believe Your Body has helped me to be kinder to myself. That feels like a major step forward.”
-Anna, Course Participant“The belief that I can have a joy filled life regardless of my circumstances, that brings in hope for joy and happiness not just now but for ever. That is the biggest gift imaginable.”
-T.A., Course Participant
When you purchase Believe Your Body you have access to:
A private Telegram community of people with chronic illness (kinda like WhatsApp)
Monthly Zoom drop-in calls.
5 video modules with handouts for deepening
Lifetime access to course material
A new relationship with your body and yourself
One hour per week for five weeks.
A different relationship with your body based on belief for the rest of your life.
Two payment options:
(both include monthly Zoom Community Calls)
$297
Payment plan of 3 payments of $109
For the maybes 💗 FAQs
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Absolutely. The course isn't only for people who never believe themselves–most of us do sometimes. It's for anyone whose self-belief can be inconsistent, or who feels uncertain around grief, acceptance, advocacy, and joy in a sick body. The framework will benefit you regardless of where you're starting from. If you're considering it, you're welcome here.
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If you’re on this page, I think there’s a part of you that’s ready. But feeling scared makes sense too. Developing a loving, accepting relationship with a body that has caused pain can be a difficult process, but so worth it.
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If you're asking this question, you're probably more familiar with self-dismissal than you realize. Believe Your Body is for anyone who has ever questioned whether their experience was valid enough to deserve support. There's no threshold you need to meet first. You're welcome here.
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You’ve likely tried a lot of things focused on your symptoms–managing them, reducing them, fixing them. Even therapy does this to some extent. Believe Your Body isn't about that. It's about building a relationship with yourself that impacts every single second of every day.
The self-trust you build in the course & community extend beyond chronic illness. It changes how you move through the world, how you make decisions, and how you treat yourself when things get hard with illness.
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I built this course from inside a chronically ill body, so I kept this in mind! I designed the course to take one hour per week for five weeks. That said, you have lifetime access, and I want you to move through the course in whatever way works best for you.
I'll also say this: the skills inside the course are designed to reduce the energy you spend overthinking, second-guessing, and dismissing yourself. That mental load is exhausting. Building self-trust actually gives you some of that energy back.
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I'm really aware of this dynamic and it matters to me. The Zoom drop-in calls and Telegram text-support community have clear guidelines around what and how much is appropriate to share. The goal is genuine connection without overwhelming each other's nervous systems. That's something I take seriously.
Illness changed the life you thought you'd have. You don't have to navigate that alone.
Join a community of people who understand your experience without explanation.
