MIND-BODY HEALING
SELF-PACED COURSE AVAILABLE NOW!
Be Your Own Medicine
Healing Chronic Pain & Fatigue
Ready for a breakthrough? Harness mind-body healing, neuroscience, somatic meditation and the power of community to recover from the ‘incurable’.
Do you suffer from unrelenting pain, exhaustion, brain fog, headaches, lightheadedness, irritable bowel or interstitial cystitis? Maybe you’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, insomnia or post-viral symptoms like Long Covid or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Neuroscience proves that many chronic symptoms are caused by the way our brain and nervous system process stress. There’s a way out!
Could you see your symptoms as a gateway to deep healing and spiritual growth?
We’ve been told that something or someone else holds the key to our health. As you’ve probably realized, the answer isn’t a touted herb, fad diet or short-lived injection. You have the power to heal inside you. Here’s some conditions that this mind-body work can help:
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (Me/CFS)
long covid, epstein-barr & Post-Viral Symptoms
FIBROMYALGIa
TENSION and MIGRAINE HEADACHES
Brain fog and difficulty concentrating
orthostatic intolerance or pots
fatigue, weakness and post exertional malaise
CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROMES
Irritable bowel syndrome
interstitial cystitis
BACK PAIN, NECK PAIN, WHIPLASH, KNEE PAIN
REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY
COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
HYPERSENSITIVITY SYNDROMES
INSOMNIA, anxiety and more
Student Love
“I was bed-bound with severe Long Covid for months, unable to look after myself and spent over a year housebound on the sofa. The most I could walk was 15 minutes, slowly, and today I did 55-minutes of cardio and strength exercises! My recovery has been miraculous and incredibly quick! There were points during the programme where I got noticeably better every day. I’ve been participating in life fully like a healthy, normal person!!”
- Anne B., London, UK
Take a peek!
What’s Inside Be Your Own Medicine?
Be Your Own Medicine is a powerful and nurturing mind-body program to help you restore your wellbeing and spirit. Healing isn’t supposed to be onerous. In Be Your Own Medicine, we turn pressure to pleasure! Dear one, we see you as a whole person with a body, mind, heart and spirit. This is why we harness brain training, somatic meditation, emotional healing and mindful self-compassion in our step-by-step recovery program. Students say it’s an easy-to-follow toolkit for life!
Welcome Module
- Discover our top 10 tips for how to make the most of this program!
- Learn when to challenge when to soothe with our Safe Zone strategy.
- Enjoy daily mindful movement classes, an FAQ Library, a Mind-Body Buddy Sheet & more!
Module 1: The Science of Mind-Body Healing
- Enter a new paradigm of neuroscience showing the root cause and remedy for chronic symptoms.
- Follow Rebecca’s ‘Guideposts to Healing’ that returned her health and purpose!
- Sink into relaxation with calming breathwork and meditation to melt away tension.
- Explore the emotional roots of your symptoms on our writing pathway.
Module 2: How to Be a Neural Circuit Sleuth
- Use knowledge as power to discern when your brain is causing symptoms.
- Gather evidence to dispel doubt and engender confidence in your recovery!
- Practice different versions of somatic tracking, a powerful meditation to retrain your brain that your body is safe.
- Release stuck emotions with our Scribble Your Secrets process.
Q&A Module + Free from Fatigue Guide
- Understand fatigue, brain fog, POTS and other non-pain symptoms through Rebecca’s Free from Fatigue guide.
- Learn how to respond to different nervous system states through Polyvagal Theory.
- Explore a bevy of resources on Long Covid and CFS.
- Submit your personal questions to Rebecca and a physician in our two live Q&As!
Module 3: The Mind as a Gateway to Healing
- Retrain your brain that activities you want to do, and foods you want to eat, are safe!
- Practice affirmations to calm your overactive amygdala (which we fondly call Miggie).
- Understand that you’re not sick or broken—and how to show your brain that it’s true!
- Let emotions bubble up with cluster writing + come into your senses through exploratory orienting.
- Choose from a menu of tools when symptoms arise.
Practice & Connect Module: Integration Week
- Let Rebecca guide you through two of our most potent exercises + meet your peers in optional breakout groups!
- Update your healing routine in an intuitive way that feels easeful for your nervous system.
- Practice pendulation and humming in one of our favorite somatic meditations.
- Pursue your pathways to peace!
Module 4: From Self-Criticism to Self-Compassion
- Transform your recovery journey with the healing balm of self-compassion.
- Stand up to fear and soothe yourself through the inner adult, parent and child archetypes.
- Harness mindful self-compassion and loving kindness meditations to unravel harsh personality traits that drive chronic symptoms.
- Rewrite your inner dialogue and learn to meet your deepest needs.
Module 5: Feel Your Way to Wellbeing
- Understand the pivotal role emotions play in our nervous system states.
- Learn how to safely name, feel and express emotions both cognitively and somatically.
- Decipher the life-giving messages your emotions carry.
- Practice meditation, breathwork and movement to release anger, navigate fear and open to joy!
Q&A Module + Sound Sleep Guides
- Restore sound slumber with our sleep guides, harnessing mind-body healing, cognitive behavioral therapy, breathwork and more.
- Try Rebecca’s 22 ways to seduce sleep, which cured her of 13 years of insomnia.
- Enjoy bedtime meditations to soothe your nervous system, including yoga nidra and restorative yoga practices.
- Ask Rebecca and our guest coach your personal questions in our two live Q&A sessions!
Module 6: The Wisdom of Symptoms
- Unwind patterns causing disharmony in your body and life.
- Discern and honor your intuition.
- Discover the wisdom in your body and let go of the symptoms.
- Cultivate peace, pleasure, play, purpose and presence as vital pathways to healing!
“My diagnosis was for CFS/ME and at my worst I’d been bed bound… Now, I’m thriving rather than just surviving!”
"I was still housebound when I started Be Your Own Medicine—in a wheelchair to get out of the house and spending most of my day on a sofa. I started from what felt like rock bottom. I was in this limbo between life and death… Now, I’m so excited about life again! I’m so excited to wake up in the morning and do whatever I’m going to do, feeling so joyful."
- Poppy Wildman, Nottingham, UK
Self-paced course assets
The Self-Paced ‘Be Your Own Medicine’ course offers:
7 Teaching Sessions
Rebecca’s 2-hour, pre-recorded teaching sessions include slide presentations, guided meditations, practices and Q&A time with past participants. Watch recordings on your own schedule!
3 Q&A Sessions
Rebecca and guest experts answer the top questions from previous students. This program hosts three distinguised speakers: including a physician, physical therapist and mind-body coach.
25 somatic meditations
Each module has 2 to 4 guided audio practices to help you feel sensations and emotions through a lens of safety. Try different versions of somatic tracking, breathwork and other mind-body meditations.
30 Handouts + VIDEOS
Each module includes Rebecca’s handouts with journaling prompts, writing exercises and healing explorations—as well as Rebecca’s extra video teachings. There are over 100 lessons in the course.
mindful movement
Enjoy three months of live mindful movement classes on weekday mornings Pacific Time or watch our library of recordings. Also, enjoy a free 2-month yoga membership and other movement classes!
fatigue & sleep guides
Become ‘Free from Fatigue’ with our 20-page guide. Learn how fatigue is similar yet distinct to chronic pain + how to address fatigue-related symptoms. Also, recover from insomnia with our sleep guides!
Mind-Body Resources library
We curate extra videos, audios, podcasts and blogs for each module. Learn more about TMS, nervous system regulation, brain training, somatic healing and self-compassion from our favorite experts.
extended course access
Access content on our website as long as we host Be Your Own Medicine on our teaching platform Thinkific! Plus, download meditations, videos and handouts to keep on your device.
Count me in!
Be Your Own Medicine Self-Paced Course
Mind-body healing recovery program
Step-by-step recovery program for chronic fatigue, pain and other neuroplastic symptoms
20 hours of pre-recorded classes with Rebecca’s teaching presentations
Q&A videos with Rebecca and guest experts
30 guided audio meditations on somatic tracking, feeling emotions and nervous system regulation.
30 handouts with writing prompts and knowledge
Free from Fatigue Guide on how to apply mind-body healing to fatigue-related symptoms, like brain fog and PEM
Sound Sleep guides to overcome insomnia
Three months of live, weekday mindful movement classes + free two-month yoga membership!
FAQ Library with frequently asked questions
Downloadable access to course content
Extended access to the course portal (for lifetime of the program)
Easy-to-follow format with no pressure!
Pick Your Payment Plan
One payment
$595
two payments of
$299
three payments of
$199
Bonus
2 Live Q&As with Rebecca!
If you sign up for the Be Your Own Medicine Self-Paced Course, you'll receive two bonus Q&A recordings with Rebecca!
She leads a somatic meditation and answers questions from self-paced participants in these 90-minute sessions.
Even though the live session dates have passed, you’ll receive the recordings as a thank you gift!
Prefer a live cohort?
BE YOUR OWN MEDICINE LIVE COHORT COMING IN SPRING 2025!
Your Mind-Body Coach
rebecca tolin
Rebecca is a certified mind-body coach who helps people recover their wellbeing and spirit. She healed from a debilitating 13-year bout with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, as well as insomnia, fibromyalgia and interstitial cystitis, through the work of Dr. John Sarno and mind-body pioneers. Rebecca now coaches, teaches and writes about how to heal from stress-related symptoms, including chronic pain, fatigue, brain fog and anxiety. Her approach blends neuroscience, somatic practices, emotional processing, thought work and behavioral shifts. She’s consulted on a mind-body pilot study for Long Covid patients affiliated with Harvard Medical Center. Rebecca loves guiding people back to their personal power and self-compassion. You can follow Rebecca’s blogs and videos here.
What’s inside Be Your Own Medicine?
Watch Rebecca’s info session and Q&A on the self-paced course!
course benefits
‘Be Your Own Medicine’ by:
Harnessing mind-body healing for fatigue, brain fog, insomnia, pain and other chronic symptoms, including Long Covid and CFS
Reconnecting to your body with somatic meditations
Feeling emotions and sensations in a safe, mindful way
Regulating your nervous system
Expanding your range of activities in slow steps!
Finding self acceptance, compassion and empowerment
Understanding the work of John Sarno, Howard Schubiner,
Alan Gordon and others at the forefront of mind-body healingApplying the TMS approach and Polyvagal Theory to your symptoms
Learning from a mind-body coach who recovered from ME/CFS
Accessing deep layers of healing and transformation!
student love
“You have inspired me in many ways. Firstly to recover from CFS, but also to do the deep inner work to live my best and most authentic life with an open and loving heart. I feel like I am starting an amazing adventure.”
- Kate, UK
‘be your own medicine’ STUDENT LOVE
“Immediately I was noticing that the tremoring was a lot less, which I connect with nervous system safety. With Long Covid, I had weird heart things, like flip flopping. It almost felt like electricity. That reduced within two, three or four weeks of your course. Within a few weeks of your program, I noticed things shifting quite quickly that hadn’t been with some of the other brain retraining I was doing. One hundred percent it’s worth it!”
- Lindsay Hull, Saskatchewan, Canada
“I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2014. Then I had Long Covid and symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Before the course, I was essentially bed-bound, maxing out at 3,000 steps a day, struggling to do much more than that. I’ve since taken on a very physical job. I can now go for 10 kilometer walks. If you told me this only 7 months ago, I’d have told you there was no chance. 10K looked like Everest. Yet, here I am and I’m grateful for that!”
- Christophe Sagnet, Glasgow, Scotland
“My missing puzzle pieces in my healing were found through Be Your Own Medicine. I learned that I am not sick! I learned how to challenge triggers, fight back against fear, and take back my life. My world is growing wider! Rebecca obviously poured her whole heart, blood, sweat, and tears into creating a course dripping with resources left and right that are extremely supportive. The course is just brimming with her love and creativity.”
- Lorie Rossesau, Georgia, USA
FAQs
🚀 When can I start?
You can begin the Be Your Own Medicine Self-Paced Course anytime you like! Rebecca created this for people who don't want to wait for a live cohort. You can jumpstart your recovery and reclaim your life now! If you're interested in a live cohort, the best way to find out about Rebecca's next one is by signing up for the mailing list here. You'll also receive a free somatic meditation—which helped Rebecca and many other people recover!—and her latest mind-body blogs and videos.
👩🏻🏫 Self-paced course versus the live cohort?
Both the self-paced course and the live cohort have the same 10 modules, which are chocked full of knowledge and practices for your recovery! While the content is the same, the delivery is different. In the self-paced program, teaching sessions and Q&As are pre-recorded from a previous cohort. Thus, self-paced learners don't attend live classes or submit questions for Rebecca and her team through our portal. But, self-paced learners can watch many Q&A sessions with Rebecca and guest speakers, which will likely answer your questions! Also, we've added a new FAQ Library with top questions and answers from past participants. Tuition for the self-paced course is $595 and the full price for the Fall 2024 cohort cost $995, so there is a significant savings with the self-paced program!
🤷🏽♂️ What course is best for me?
If you want to begin Be Your Own Medicine now, take the self-paced course! It's the same content—recently updated with the latest and greatest—for a lower price point. If you're on a budget, the self-paced version is approximately $400 less than the full price for the live cohort.
⚖️ How does the course compare to coaching?
Be Your Own Medicine is the place to start! Rebecca offers the core knowledge and practices to recover from mind-body symptoms at a fraction of the cost of 1:1 work. There's a greater breadth in the course with more than 20 hours of live classes, 25 audio meditaitons, 30 handouts and extra videos. If you want therapy or coaching during or after the course, it's far more effective with the Be Your Own Medicine program. Rebecca opens a handful of coaching slots solely for Be Your Own Medicine participants, which is the only way to work with her privately! She also offer coaching recommendations for mind-body coaches from her team. You could take the self-paced course and set up coaching sessions as needed.
👩🏻🤝👩🏾 What if I want to work with Rebecca?
There are an opportunity to meet with Rebecca for the self-paced course! Rebecca is opening some coaching sessions only for participants of the Be Your Own Medicine Self-Paced Program and the 2024 Live Cohort. These sessions are on a first-come, first-served basis for an additional fee. The first people to enroll will receive on offer to book a session with Rebecca while they last! Also, in Spring 2024, Rebecca offered two free Q&A sessions for all self-paced students so you will receive the recordings of those as a bonus. Otherwise, Rebecca is not taking new clients. She's focused on teaching Be Your Own Medicine since people recover more fully and swifty through the program!
👩🏽💻 How long can I access the course?
You'll have extended access to the Be Your Own Medicine program website! This means you can log into the course portal for the lifetime of the program, meaning as long as we offer Be Your Own Medicine on our current teaching platform Thinkific. This will be a minimum of one year from your registration date and most likely longer, as Rebecca is passionate about offering this program! You can also download all videos, audio meditations and handouts to keep on your personal device.
📚 What's the curriculum?
Glad you asked! You can see a detailed list of the course lessons here. Besides the class recordings, there's videos, audio meditations and writing exercises to support your recovery.
🤕 What symptoms will this help?
Assuming there's no major structural or pathological issue, this mind-body approach has helped people recover from chronic fatigue, headaches, brain fog, fibromyalgia, insomnia, anxiety, POTS, ME/CFS, long Covid, PEM, irritable bowel syndrome, digestive issues, interstitial cystitis, pelvic pain, chronic back, neck and shoulder pain, migraines and headaches, TMJ, repetitive stress injuries and other mind-body symptoms. Dr. Howard Schubiner calls this Mind-Body Syndrome (MBS) and Dr. John Sarno called it Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS).
❤️🩹 Can this help long Covid and ME/CFS?
While we can't guarantee results, Rebecca has helped many people recover from long Covid, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Epstein-Barr and other post-viral symptoms. Rebecca consulted on a mind-body pilot study on Long Covid patients through a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical Center, with promising results. As long as you've ruled out tissue damage with your physician, mind-body healing helps many people recover and live a full life. See some of our amazing Success Stories here!
🙋🏽♀️ How do I know if I'm ready?
- Your physician has ruled out pathological and structural causes, such as bone disease, infection, fractures and cancer. We are not doctors and cannot diagnose you. It's important to see a licensed doctor to evaluate your symptoms prior to this course.
- Your symptoms haven’t improved by treatments suggested by medical professionals.
- You want to work with thoughts and behaviors to retrain your brain.
- You crave self-empowering tools to regulate your nervous system and heal on physical, emotional and mental levels.
- You’re curious about exploring somatic meditations as a pathway to recovery.
- You're drawn to Rebecca's approach and this branch of mind-body healing.
- You’re ready to reclaim your life!
😫 Could my brain cause pain or fatigue?
Chronic pain, fatigue, brain fog, POTS and other mind-body symptoms are 100% real and you feel them in your body. But emerging science shows the cause can be in the brain. When our nervous system gets activated, there's a cascade of physiological changes in nerve firing patterns, blood flow, hormone production etc. Nervous system activation can cause pain, fatigue, anxiety, weakness, tingling, burning, spasms, anxiety, insomnia, difficulty concentrating and more. John Sarno used to say that TMS symptoms can be stronger than those with a structural cause. Fortunately, there's a remedy!
💸 Do you offer a payment plan?
We sure do! You can pay in one, two or three installments. For the self-paced course, the full tuition is $595 USD. Alternatively, you can make two payments of $299 or three payments of $199.
💰 What's your refund policy?
Healing happens by moving through obstacles with consistent practice. But if you’ve don’t feel our self-paced course is the right fit within 7 days of your purchase, we offer a money-back guarantee (minus a $75 processing fee). We must receive your email within 7 days of the date you enrolled. There are no refunds after this date. If you're on a payment plan, you're responsible for all future installments after the refund window. To request a refund, email course@rebeccatolin.com and explain your reasons for cancelling to help us improve. You can read more in our Terms of Use.
🫶🏼 Do you offer financial aid?
We created the self-paced course at a lower price than our live cohort to make it more accessible! But if you still can't afford Be Your Own Medicine and think it's your program, we can offer a discount to a limited number of scholarship recipients. You're welcome to email us for a scholarship application at course@rebeccatolin.com.
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