Your brain is changing.
This education is critical.
Since 2020, you’ve often felt shocked by what’s happening in the world.
Shock is measurable. It is a brief theta frequency inside of your brain waves. Usually moments of shock last about 20 seconds.
During that brief moment, your brain is changed, for the long run. Whatever you’re thinking and feeling amid that shock changes the way your brain behaves from that moment forward.
Your brain begins to dismiss information it never used to dismiss. And it magnifies information it never used to magnify … effectively altering your feeling of what is safe or dangerous, and what is possible or impossible.
This 20-second shock state is a pivot point that decides how you will behave moving forward, and what decisions you’ll make related to finances, work, love, creativity, and community.
These moments of shock dictate whether you create a future that is a trauma response, or an expression of your higher potential.
In other words, how you choose to show up to this time of intense destabilization will seal your fate.
It’s only natural to be fixated on what’s happening out there, but the medicine for these intense times is to pull your awareness inward, so you can prevent detrimental changes to your brain, and mobilize your potential to birth a healthier and safer planet - for yourself, for your family, and for the collective.
I created a new class to support you with this. It’s called Coping with Anxiety of an Uncertain Future: Building Trust in your Ability to Adapt to the Unknown.
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You’ve become socially withdrawn from your loved ones as your anxiety mounts.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.
Here’s something new to help you cope with the anxiety of uncertain future, and build trust in your ability to adapt to the unknown.
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 this author
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 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.
Very excited for this!!