Free Spirit Academy is here to support you getting to be safely and freely yourself.
But I assume you're here because you don't feel free.
Maybe you don't feel free in your body.
Maybe you don't feel free in your mind.
Maybe you don't feel free in your life as a whole.
And perhaps your relationship with food and your body have been chaotic as you search for control or freedom.
We not only want freedom from compulsive/addictive behaviors, painful emotions, and lives that don't work for us.
We want to feel free to be ourselves fully.
I created the Free Spirit Academy courses so that you can connect to you. To learn the tools to understand your compulsive behavior, painful emotions, and anything that's leaving you feeling less than free.
In Free Spirit Academy we don't fight our bodies or ourselves.
We come to understand that our bodies are on our sides...
...that compulsive/addictive behaviors aren't problems as much as they are symptoms...
...and that you are not a problem to be fixed, but perhaps a mystery to be explored.
As one of my favorite sayings goes: it takes discipline to be a free spirit.
However, there are ways of using discipline that just don't work (like forcing ourselves to 'be good'...when what we really want is to be free).
These courses are about the disciplines of self-acceptance, self-love, and self-expression.
In Binge Freedom, we learn that understanding emotional eating requires understanding our emotions.
In Liberated, we learn that to understand intuitive eating, we need to understand our intuition.
In Body Love, we learn to cultivate not only a liberated body image, but a relationship with our body as our wisest guide.
And in Coming Home to Your Body we come to understand why we struggle with painful emotions and compulsive/addictive behaviors. We also explore how to get to the root of our stress and trauma by learning to fully inhabit our body's experience. This is a course on how to feel.
In order to trust our bodies, we have to start understanding their language.
You want to...
Live your precious life without constantly thinking about food all day long.
Heal emotional and binge eating...without willpower and coping strategies.
Know what it's like to live in a body you love.
Not only that...
You want to go deeper.
You want to heal and then you want to THRIVE.
Free Spirit Academy is a membership site dedicated to your thriving.
Hi, I'm Rande.
I'm an Eating Psychology Coach and I also run Free Spirit Academy. To me, a “free spirit” is you feeling safe to be you - and often that means unearthing trauma from family, culture, religion, capitalism, and education systems (etc).
I understand how trauma of all kinds can disconnect us from ourselves. Coming from a background of early and religious trauma, eating disorders, chronic illness/symptoms, dissociation and self-harm, I've had a long- time obsession with freedom and healing.
I live with my wife in the Pacific Northwest.
For more about me, click here.
Curriculum
- Day 1: Why We Don't Feel At Home in Our Bodies (LISTEN) (31:59)
- Day 2: Coming Home to Your Body's Connection and Protection (JOURNAL)
- Day 3: Orienting to Safety (PRACTICE) (7:42)
- Day 4: Exploring your Protective Responses (JOURNAL)
- Day 5: Easing Into the Body (PRACTICE) (3:19)
- Day 6: What is Trauma? (LISTEN) (19:56)
- Day 7: Identifying your Trauma (JOURNAL)
- Day 8: Orienting to Safety (PRACTICE) (5:04)
- Day 9: Coming Home to Your Joints (PRACTICE) (8:48)
- Day 10: Coming Home to Your Healthy Impulse (PRACTICE) (9:00)
- Day 11: How to Work with Painful Coping Patterns (LISTEN) (16:11)
- Day 12: Painful Coping Patterns and the Wounded Inner Child (JOURNAL)
- Day 13: Coming Home to Nourishment (PRACTICE) (8:26)
- Day 14: Coming Home to Your Inhale (PRACTICE) (7:32)
- Day 15: Coming Home to Your Exhale (PRACTICE) (6:33)
- Day 16: Full Body Awareness (PRACTICE) (5:47)
- Day 17: What 'Feeling Your Feelings' REALLY Means (LISTEN) (11:56)
- Day 18: Getting to Know Your Fear (LISTEN) (10:18)
- Day 19: Safety in Fear/Anxiety (PRACTICE A)
- Day 20: Safety in Fear/Anxiety (PRACTICE B)
- Day 21: Getting to Know Your Sadness (LISTEN) (9:42)
- Day 22: Kundalini Meditation for Sadness (PRACTICE)
- Day 23: Getting to Know Your Anger (LISTEN) (9:56)
- Day 24: From Suppressed Anger to Healthy Aggression (PRACTICE A)
- Day 25: Kundalini Meditation for Processing Anger (PRACTICE B)
- Day 26: The Feeling Practice (PRACTICE) (14:18)
- Day 27: How to Listen to Your Body (LISTEN) (16:26)
- Day 28: The Embodied Journaling Practice (PRACTICE) (6:19)
- Day 29: Coming Home to Your Adrenals/Stress (PRACTICE) (9:04)
- Day 30: Moving Forward in Partnership with the Body (LISTEN) (15:49)
- Day 1: Welcome (3:11)
- Day 2: The Dream Under the Dream Body (LISTEN) (22:11)
- Day 3: The Dream Under the Dream Body (PRACTICE) (7:19)
- Day 4: Your Body is your Partner (MINI PRACTICE) (1:52)
- Day 5: Your Body is your Partner (MINI PRACTICE) (1:13)
- Day 6: Your Body is your Partner (MINI PRACTICE) (2:26)
- Day 7: Aliveness not Apathy (BYE, DIET RULES) (21:56)
- Day 8: Practicing Aliveness (PRACTICE) (6:19)
- Day 9: Continuing your Aliveness Practice
- Day 10: Continuing your Aliveness Practice (Plus Binge Freedom Bonus) (8:26)
- Day 11: Continuing your Aliveness Practice
- Day 12: Your Body is Good (PLEASURE AND PAIN AS A COMPASS) (19:48)
- Day 13: Learning from Pleasure and Pain without Shame (PRACTICE) (7:03)
- Day 14: Mid-Course Tension Release (PRACTICE) (5:47)
- Day 15: Working with Pain from Food (PRACTICE) (4:26)
- Day 16: Is it Really Pain from Food? (PRACTICE) (6:49)
- Day 17: Your Inner Critic is On Your Side (LISTEN) (15:04)
- Day 18: Working with Your Inner Critic (PRACTICE) (6:11)
- Day 19: Why We Feel Unsafe (BONUS AUDIO) (21:58)
- Day 20: Feeling your Inner Critic and Working with Shame. (PRACTICE) (4:04)
- Day 21: Returning to Aliveness (PRACTICE) (2:26)
- Day 22: Returning to Your Body's Echo (PRACTICE) (7:03)
- Day 23: Working with Cravings (LISTEN) (9:56)
- Day 24: A Practice for Painful Desires, Cravings, and Compulsive Behaviors (PRACTICE) (5:26)
- Day 25: Meeting Unmet Needs Outside the Diet Cycle (LISTEN) (11:33)
- Day 26: Unmet Needs Journaling (JOURNAL)
- Day 27: Re-visiting the Dream Body (PRACTICE) (7:19)
- Day 28: Beyond the Initiation (LISTEN) (12:49)
- Day 29: Your Body as a Partner Beyond Food (PRACTICE) (4:11)
- Day 30: Closing Body Connection (1:23)
- Recommended Reading
- Day 1: Welcome (LISTEN) (3:41)
- Day 2: It's Not About Willpower (Audio) (21:49)
- Day 3: Orienting to Safety (RETURN HERE DAILY) (7:49)
- Day 4: Daily Practice
- Day 5: Letting Go of Control is Not Being OUT of Control (Listen) (12:19)
- Day 6: The Control Inventory (Journal)
- Day 7: Daily Practice
- Day 8: It's Not About The Food...Except When It's About The Food (Listen) (12:19)
- Day 9: Following Your Healthy Impulses (Practice) (7:06)
- Day 10: Daily Practice
- Day 11: It's Not About The Food...Except When It's About The Food Pt 2 (Listen) (12:19)
- Day 12: Finding Ease (Practice) (6:26)
- Day 13: Daily Practice
- Day 14: What "Feeling Your Feelings" ACTUALLY Means...and how to do it (Listen) (21:19)
- Days 15-19: The Emotion Toolbox (Practice)
- Day 20: Daily Practice
- Day 21: Using Pleasure as a Guide (Listen) (19:49)
- Day 22: The Pleasure Inventory (Journal)
- Day 23: Daily Practice
- Day 24: Embracing Pleasure
- Day 25: Softening Perfectionism and Reimagining "Happily Ever After" (Listen) (25:11)
- Day 26: What's Going Unexpressed? (Journal)
- Day 27: Daily Practice
- Day 28: Embracing Pleasure
- Day 29: Daily Practice
- Day 30: Reflections (Journal)
- Recommended Reading List
- Day 1: Respecting the Body as a Practice (LISTEN) (22:56)
- Day 2: Re-imagining the Body (JOURNAL)
- Day 3: Feeling Safe Inside the Body (PRACTICE) (7:42)
- Day 4: Safety Practice (PRACTICE) (6:39)
- Day 5: Safety Practice (PRACTICE) (6:39)
- Day 6: Walking into Aliveness (PRACTICE)
- Day 7: Reimagining the body as a home for your inner world (LISTEN) (16:41)
- Day 8: Inner Princess and Inner Queen (JOURNAL)
- Day 9: Following Your Impulses (PRACTICE) (7:49)
- Day 10: Following Your Real Life Impulses (PRACTICE)
- Day 11: Reimagining the Body as Worthy of Respect (LISTEN) (10:41)
- Day 12: Facing Yourself (MIRROR PRACTICE) (5:49)
- Day 13: Mirror Practice (PRACTICE)
- Day 14: Mirror Practice (PRACTICE)
- Day 15: Treating your Body with Respect (PRACTICE A)
- Day 16: Treating your Body with Respect (PRACTICE B)
- Day 17: Treating your Body with Respect (PRACTICE C)
- Day 18: Treating your Body with Respect (PRACTICE D)
- Day 19: Mirror Practice (PRACTICE)
- Day 20: Mirror Practice (PRACTICE)
- Day 21: A Queen's Pleasure (LISTEN) (11:56)
- Day 22: The Feel Good Inventory (JOURNAL)
- Day 23: Mirror Practice 2.0 (PRACTICE)
- Day 24: Mirror Practice 2.0 (PRACTICE)
- Day 25: Reimagining Your Body as a Guide (LISTEN) (10:49)
- Day 26: Your Body as a Guide (JOURNAL)
- Day 27: Mirror Practice 2.0 (PRACTICE)
- Day 28: Mirror Practice 2.0 (PRACTICE)
- Day 29: Reimagining A New "Before and After" Story (LISTEN) (6:19)
- Day 30: Embodied Reflections (JOURNAL)
- Recommended Reading List
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