During this powerful course on the trauma-autoimmune connection, you’ll:

• Explore Dr. Keesha’s Freedom Framework to help uncover solutions to your autoimmune puzzle — and help you potentially reverse your autoimmune issues
• Recognize how early trauma sets up patterns in your nervous system that can be reactivated throughout your life, leading to chronic illness in adulthood
• Discover how employing the HURT (Healing Un-Resolved Trauma) model can help you create a path to reversing autoimmune disease
• Navigate the 4 P’s of autoimmune issues to achieve freedom from your chronic dis-ease: people pleasing, perfectionism, pitta dosha, and holding on to poison from past pain
• Identify your attachment style so you’re better able to access and work with the parts of yourself that are ready to be healed
• Discover the deeply ingrained meanings, beliefs, and behaviors created by your child-self that are negatively impacting your health
• Observe how to listen and respond in a nourishing way to the messages your body is sending you
• Recognize how to protect and support your body — and move away from the habits and actions that lead to inflammation, immune dysregulation, blood sugar and hormone imbalances, microbiome dysbiosis, and disrupted neurotransmitters
• Explore character styles and their corresponding maladaptive habits of codependency, disassociation, and numbing techniques that cause self-sabotage
• Learn how healing “leaky” boundaries can heal a leaky gut — and put you on the path toward reversing autoimmunity
• Discover how laboratory testing is the way to “test not guess” — testing is the way you can hear the language your body uses to communicate with you

Reversal of autoimmune issues is possible — and Dr. Keesha’s Freedom Framework can help you uncover solutions to your autoimmune puzzle.

The autoimmune puzzle contains four main components: childhood trauma, genetics, environmental toxins, and leaky gut. While focusing on these root causes, you’ll receive guidance on how to solve your own unique puzzle.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover how to achieve physical health by releasing illness that’s has been locked in your system
• Examine your unique combination of genetics, gut health, toxic burden, and trauma to embark upon an individualized healing journey
• Navigate the 4 P’s of autoimmune issues to achieve freedom from your chronic dis-ease (people pleasing, perfectionism, pitta dosha, and holding on to poison from past pain)
• Move beyond functional medicine’s traditionally exclusive focus on supplements and food to a more holistic approach
• Identify how to listen to your body’s communication with curious compassion

Early attachment trauma affects a child’s ability to form healthy interpersonal relationships — which then often translates to chronic illness in adulthood. The brain’s neuroplasticity and neural connections are developed and influenced by each new experience — the continual wiring and rewiring process creates templates that we use throughout our lives.

The immune system will mirror patterns in our nervous system that originated in childhood as responses to early traumatic events. When the mind is reactive, the immune system follows suit.

Dr. Keesha will facilitate an exploration of two significant studies, ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Healing Un-Resolved Trauma (HURT), to help launch your journey of healing.

In this module, you’ll:

• Recognize how experiencing early trauma establishes adverse patterns in your nervous system that can be reactivated throughout your life — leading to chronic illness (like autoimmune conditions and cancer) in adulthood
• Discover how employing the HURT (Healing Un-Resolved Trauma) model can help you create a path to reversing autoimmune disease
• Observe and incorporate strategies to transcend negative mental and emotional perceptions
• Identify your attachment style so you’re better able to access and work with the parts of yourself that are ready to be healed
• Discover the deeply ingrained meanings, beliefs, and behaviors created by your child-self that are negatively impacting your health
• Work with Dr. Keesha’s Freedom Framework to reframe stories of victimhood and simply surviving into an epic narrative of actively thriving
• Integrate new knowledge with skill-building exercises to heal from the effects of attachment wounding

When a child experiences trauma, the innocent psyche of that child creates ego parts to protect themself. These parts are adaptive responses of the child’s wise mind to experiences the child doesn’t know how to navigate or understand.

When the child grows into adulthood, the parts come along and continue to act out their roles. They are often combative and at odds with one another, creating chaos, unhappiness, and disease in the adult system. Fortunately, with the willingness to self-reflect and develop awareness, the adult can begin to integrate these parts and form collaborative alliances that can foster happiness, peace, and vitality.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the coping mechanisms the innocent psyche of your child self created to survive traumatic experiences in the past
• Explore the various ego parts that emerged in order to get your needs met
• Learn how you hold and fold your trauma as patterns that are carried into adulthood and adult relationships
• Discover how to listen and respond in a nourishing way to the messages these parts are sending you in adulthood
• Learn how to become curious, compassionate, and collaborative rather than combative with yourself as a way of reversing your autoimmune condition and upleveling the quality of your communication with yourself and others

Autoimmunity is often experienced as a betrayal of trust in the body. Stephen Johnson developed seven character styles that emerge from childhood trauma: the hated child, the abandoned child, the owned child, the used child, the defeated child, the exploited child, and the disciplined child.

These character styles result in specific defense mechanisms and maladaptive behavior patterns that influence the health of the adult. Within each character style there is a spectrum that leads from the character style to character neurosis and finally to personality disorders.

Each degree along the spectrum can be associated with a matching degree of physical response within the nervous system, the immune system, the endocrine system, and the gastrointestinal system.

Utilizing the HURT Model and the Freedom Framework with Johnson’s character styles, you’ll be able to find yourself on the spectrum and then make the necessary changes to work toward freeing yourself from your disease.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover why chronic illnesses such as autoimmune diseases are experienced as a betrayal of the body
• Explore the multitude of ways we betray our bodies by feeding them foods that lead to inflammation, immune dysregulation, blood sugar and hormone imbalances, microbiome dysbiosis in the gut, and disrupted neurotransmitters in the brain
• Learn the character styles and their maladaptive habits of codependency, disassociation, and numbing techniques that cause self-sabotage in health-promoting programs
• Discover your character style that emerged from your early years as a child
• Develop tools for making friends with your character style and moving from resistance to life to embracing life

A narcissist views themselves as more special and more deserving than everyone else. They have grandiose thinking and an inflated sense of ego. As a whole, they lack empathy and have a need to be admired in order to hide deep-rooted anxiety and fears of worthlessness.

Narcissists and empaths have a unique attraction to one another as they each get something from the trauma bond that forms as they repeat the narcissistic abuse cycle from their childhood.

Empaths are sensitive to the feelings of other people and tend to prioritize the needs of others ahead of themselves. Unfortunately, these unhealthy relationships can eventually lead to autoimmune issues in the empath as the empath continues to try to change their partner and go beyond caregiving and into codependency.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the empath-narcissist connection — and how and why it happens
• Learn how to recognize the childhood patterns that developed in response to trauma that create the empath and the narcissist
• Explore the narcissistic abuse “love” cycle and how to break free from it
• Learn how intergenerational trauma perpetuates these relationship traumas over and over again — and how to stop the cycle
• Understand how a highly sensitive psyche and energy system creates a highly sensitive immune system, which can lead to autoimmune disease and cancer
• Discover techniques to protect your energy system from energy vampires

One of the root causes of autoimmune disease is intestinal permeability, or leaky gut. Leaky gut is typically caused by the use of antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, eating foods that the body reacts to, and above all, stress and trauma.

When stress begins early in childhood as a result of traumatic experiences, the adrenal glands respond by releasing cortisol so the child can fight, flee, faint, or freeze. Given that children are not autonomous beings and have little power, the response is usually to freeze.

The cortisol released in the stress response leads to a breakdown in the lining of the intestinal wall, which can then allow food into the bloodstream, which then activates the immune system to attack what it knows is not supposed to be there. This is why gut health is one of the four corner pieces of the Freedom Framework that can help solve the autoimmune puzzle.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover what boundaries are and why they are necessary
• Learn why healing leaky boundaries can heal leaky gut, which has been known to reverse autoimmunity
• Discover what happens in the body when you have intestinal permeability
• Explore the cortisol release cycle that develops when you live in a constant state of fight or flight
• Discover the different kinds of boundaries and tools for creating and maintaining them: physical, energetic, emotional, mental, spiritual, and environmental

In this module, you’ll recap and review what you learned from the Freedom Framework by touching on the four corner pieces of the puzzle: genetics, gut health, toxic burden, and stress and past trauma.

You’ll revisit what you learned about the four edge pieces of the Freedom Framework by exploring the 4 C’s, uncovering the root causes, confronting your lab data, and connecting the dots between that data and your lifestyle choices.

You’ll delve into creating the life you want to live — with intention rather than from the factory default settings of your childhood. This will help you individualize your puzzle to put you on the path of reversing your autoimmune challenge by creating lifestyle choices that are life-nourishing rather than dis-ease-causing.

In this module, you’ll:

• Review the Freedom Framework and how to individualize your autoimmune puzzle so you can potentially reverse your autoimmune challenge by looking into the root-cause areas of body, mind, heart, spirit, and your story
• Explore the idea that laboratory testing is a way to “test, not guess” — and understand that laboratory testing is the language the body uses to communicate with you
• Discover the laboratory tests needed to begin that dialogue and how to do them
• Learn that there is no one-size-fits-all protocol to reverse autoimmune disease
• Understand the language your body uses to communicate with you, with signs the body is always giving you
• Discover how forgiveness and reconciliation differ — and why forgiveness is essential for reversing autoimmunity