This class is for you if...
As the world becomes increasingly volatile, you’ve been struggling with this dreadful feeling of having little control over the future.
Worries about job loss and economic instability feel all-consuming. This has strained your health and your relationships.
You're dealing with stress-related attention deficit and overstimulation.
You've become socially withdrawn from your loved ones as your anxiety mounts.
Your stress is exacerbating symptoms of chronic illness, pain, or trauma.
How this class is going to help you...
Replace worries of having no control over the future with a strong sense of being able to adapt and evolve through the unknown.
Learn clinically-effective tools for reducing overstimulation and exiting the panic loop.
Explore practices for reigning in stress-related attention deficit and reclaiming your focus, so you can create new opportunities and quit getting lost in the fear and the chaos.
Protect your brain’s social engagement circuits so high stress no longer causes you to withdraw from life. Quit missing out on precious, irreplaceable time with your loved ones.
Apply mind-body science to reduce the symptoms of chronic illness, chronic pain, and trauma that are exacerbated by heightened stress.
About the teacher
Amanda Blain is a former Peace Corps volunteer,
Clinical Mind-Body Therapist, and Trauma Specialist who helps people who've been discouraged by years of unsuccessful treatment finally breakthrough and heal from stress disorders, chronic health conditions, relationship rupture, and existential crisis.
From 2012-2013, she met with lawmakers at state and national levels, hoping to impact preventative health care policy as a Lead Advocate for the Cancer Action Network. She joined the U.S. Peace Corps after meetings in Washington D.C. left her disillusioned by cultural norms that prioritized profit over impact.
While serving in the Peace Corps, Amanda trained with two
award-winning United Nations Consultants and collaborated with the Venda tribe of Limpopo, South Africa, to launch projects in youth leadership, literacy, and food sovereignty.
Amanda has lived and learned from families who grew up under political apartheid in South Africa and in the Middle East.
Here, she was inspired by generations who embody unshakeable resilience, adaptability, and faith in the face of systemic oppression.
In her childhood, Amanda endured multiple adverse events as the daughter of a teen mom. Overcoming trauma and stress-related chronic illness has been a survival necessity for her, which led to her now 17 years of professional experience and studies in Mind-Body Science and Advanced Trauma Support Skills including Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate Program.
From 2016-2020, Amanda led a media project in which she interviewed military veterans about the psychological aftermath of service to promote healing and understanding about the human aspect of war.
Today, she resides on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, where she supports indigenous-led educational NGOs and works remotely to provide therapeutic support to people from all over the world. Most of her clients report breakthroughs with trauma, stress-related chronic illness, and relationship rupture - even after decades of unsuccessful standardized treatment.
What clients are saying..
"I had this constant feeling of panic over my business and financial life. I couldn't rest because of this sense of doom that if I stopped working on things, everything would fall apart. I was working so much and not really taking care of myself. It had a negative impact on my relationships too. Amanda taught me how to exit the panic loop. I've now been able to take time for myself, and to enjoy life without that gripping anxiety controlling me, for the first time in years."
-Adam in California
“I had no memory of life without PTSD symptoms. I'd been in talk therapy and traditional psychotherapy for 28 years, and it just hadn't helped. I was left feeling hopeless - that no matter what I do or how hard I fight that I'll always end up back in that dark place, blaming myself for just not being capable enough to 'be like everyone else,' deeper loneliness than I can ever fully express ... Not actually wanting to die - but to keep living felt unbearable.
In the beginning I honestly didn't trust that working with Amanda would really work, I thought maybe I'd learn a few more coping skills and count it a success. I don't think I'll ever be happier about being wrong.
Working together, I've been able to recognize what being triggered feels like in my body, how the things I think affect that, and how physical movements can help. I've been able to relieve symptoms during flashback, to calm panic attacks on my own, and release trauma from my body.
I now feel that there is a reality where this doesn't rule my life. Knowing that I now have agency has been life-changing. It's like I was living in a dark forest of perpetual night and the sun is just rising for the first time."
-Alex in Oregon