Free Spirit Academy is a safe pasture for the black sheep. And Coming Home to Your Body is one of the deepest pathways inward - a gentle and powerful course for those of us who’ve lived a long time feeling like strangers in our own skin.

This is for those who…

• Feel like their nervous system is always either buzzing or shutting down.

• Dissociate or numb out when life gets intense — sometimes without even realizing it.

• Get overwhelmed by emotion but feel lost when it comes to actually feeling and processing it.

• Have tried every mindset shift, every coping strategy, every healing modality - but still feel stuck in patterns that don’t make sense.

• Want to trust their bodies, but don't feel safe inside them.

This course is about coming home to your body and yourself.

Not to some idealized version of yourself, but to the you who is already here - beneath the defenses, the compulsions, the fear, the shame, the shoulds.

To the you who can feel.

To the you who’s learning to stay with what’s real.

To the you who never needed fixing.

Testimonials:

"Rande, I always felt that one day I would die. I would kill myself. That’s how I saw my life ending. 100 percent. That one day it would all be too much. I don’t think that anymore. In fact I know that won’t happen. Because I have skills now, skills you’ve taught me and practiced with me with no judgement and With patience. I knew I’d never make it. I’ve been through years, YEARS of therapy. DBT, emdr, cbt and whatever else they could come up with. What I needed- all this time, is to connect to me. Come back to me. Learn myself and safely processes my experiences." -A.R.

"Over the past few weeks, I have regained my confidence in my body which has allowed me to show up more vibrantly as myself in life; this was a surprise side effect that came with addressing the root cause of my binge eating! I've found that I have more energy to do the things I love now that I'm not spending a large amount of my energy avoiding my anger or my sadness or the way a comment made me feel unworthy or abandoned. Rande's expanded what I believe is possible for myself" - J.S.

In This Course, You’ll Learn To:

• Understand your nervous system and how your unique history of stress, trauma, and identity shapes your responses.

• Feel your feelings safely - without being overwhelmed by them or needing to escape.

• Begin to unwind compulsive behavior patterns (emotional eating, doom scrolling, self-sabotage, shutting down emotionally) from a place of curiosity and care.

• Be introduced to a library of grounded practices, embodied meditations, to gently introduce or bring you home to your body.

• Reconnect with the parts of you that have gotten lost or numbed out - and bring them home.

This is a course on how to feel.

Not how to feel constantly happy (that's probably dissociation).

Not how to "fix" yourself (you don't need fixing).

But how to feel: real, human, and whole - able to access the full spectrum of regulation, joy, grief, healthy anger, awe, and aliveness.

What comes with the course?

Module 1: Why We Don't Feel At Home In Our Bodies.

• Discover the reasons we feel overwhelmed with anxiety, numbness, or emotions we don't know what to do with.
• Learn what our mind/body systems need to feel safe and connected, and how they protect themselves.
• Get my favorite practice becoming more "here" in your life.

Module 2: What is Trauma?

• Learn what trauma is (this one's great for the "I don't think I even have any trauma" folks.)
• Find out why chronic daily stress can have an impact similar to traumatic experiences.
• Start connecting with your natural, healthy impulses!

Module 3: How to Work with Painful Coping Patterns.

• Learn WHY we struggle with painful coping patterns and how change is not just about "willpower."
• Get to know the parts of you that have been trying to get their needs met with these coping patterns.
• Two unique breathing exercises and a full-body practice.

Module 4: What "Feeling Your Feelings" REALLY Means.

• Demystify "feeling your feelings" and start seeing your emotions as messengers.
• Practices for getting to know your anxiety, sadness, anger, numbness - and working with them!
• A kundalini breathwork set for soothing fear.

Module 5: How to Listen to Your Body.

• Make practical sense of "listening to your body."
• Learn the language your body speaks and why we can trust our bodies to help guide us.

The Bigger Picture:

When we feel safe inside ourselves, the world begins to change. We're more able to:

• Set the boundaries our bodies are calling for.

• Notice the difference between people-pleasing and what's true for us.

• Actually rest. Be creative. Enjoy things.

• Pause and respond rather than just react.

• Show up in our communities with presence and care.

This is personal healing — and it’s also world-changing work.

Testimonial:

"I have been trained as a coach myself, and still, with certain topics, I just couldn't get any further. It seemed like I knew and understood a lot but my body didn't come along at all. I knew a little about trauma and the nervous system but I had no idea how to "use" that knowledge. Whenever I wanted to go for those bigger challenges that I was longing for, and every time I tried to just "go for it" and take action, my body felt...awful. She constricted, felt tense, my brain got foggy and I didn't understand why. Since wanting to take action felt so awful, I procrastinated and procrastinated (which of course made me feel even more awful). I felt like I had been working on myself for so long and with such intensity, and still I didn't feel any closer to my heart's goals. After so many years of trying so hard, just listening to or reading her words made my body breathe a sigh of relief. For a moment, I'd feel more at home in my body, as if she'd been waiting for this kind of compassion. This step was and still is one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself, and my connection with my body and nervous system. I'm now able to feel at home in myself and in my body and this is the best feeling ever. " - Y.R.