Founder of the Academy for Integrative Medicine
Keesha Ewers, PhD
Embrace your health journey with curious compassion, and a desire to enter into a collaborative relationship with yourself to help reverse your autoimmune condition and reclaim optimum health and happiness.
If you’ve ever struggled with an autoimmune issue, you know how frustrating and discouraging it can be.
The impact on your body can manifest in a myriad of ways — allergies, infections, insomnia, chronic fatigue, weight gain — even the inability to put on weight.
The complex array of symptoms can be daunting to deal with emotionally, physically, and financially.
The stigma attached to being chronically ill and unable to keep up with friends and family can bring an additional burden of stress to an already overwhelming situation.
At times it can feel hopeless. Yet, leading-edge research is finding there are ways to strengthen your immune system — to put yourself on a path of healing to reclaim the healthy body you desire and deserve.
Dr. Keesha Ewers, board-certified in functional and Ayurvedic medicine, shares how her Freedom Framework model can help you discover and challenge the root causes of your autoimmune disease in a safe, natural, and holistic way — so you can begin to live with greater joy, health, and freedom.
Dr. Keesha has been helping people reverse “irreversible” medical conditions for 30 years — including her own diagnoses of breast cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
Science has proven a direct link between trauma and autoimmune issues. If you want to heal your autoimmune issues, you must first address and heal your trauma because early childhood events create the patterns in your nervous system that can be reactivated over and over again throughout your adult life.
It’s imperative that you become the hero of your own health journey — by confronting and healing your emotional and physical disease.
The pivotal first step is making necessary dietary changes that support your body — and moving away from foods that cause inflammation, immune dysregulation, blood sugar and hormone imbalances, microbiome dysbiosis in the gut, and disrupted neurotransmitters in the brain. But food is not the last step on this journey.
Next, you’ll work on reversing self-destructive emotional patterns that have kept you in a perpetual state of fight, flight or freeze — a survival instinct that the body is not equipped to handle long term.
A healthy gut is essential for a healthy immune system. And a healthy gut requires a healthy mindset. By upleveling your thoughts and beliefs, you support the transmutation of the microbiome in your gut.
Dr. Keesha’s program also explores how “leaky” personal boundaries can contribute to leaky gut and autoimmune issues — and how mending those boundaries puts your gut and your immune system on a healing pathway.
Dr. Keesha will share the 4 C’s of her Freedom Framework:
- unCover the root causes
- Confront your lab data
- Connect the dots between that data and your lifestyle choices
- Create the life you want from a healthy adult mindset
Are you ready to learn how you can release childhood trauma, address your autoimmune disease, and map a course for a more joyful, healthy, and empowered life?
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
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Dr. Keesha will guide you through the strategies and practices you’ll need to enter into a compassionate, collaborative relationship with yourself to reverse your autoimmune condition and reclaim optimum health and happiness.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Dr. Keesha. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to gain greater clarity into the underlying causes of your autoimmune issues and map a course for healing and transformation.
Module 1: Introducing Dr. Keesha’s Freedom Framework
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
Module 2: The Link Between Childhood Trauma & Adult Illness
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
Module 3: Tracking the Parts That Emerge From Past Trauma
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
Module 4: The Intimate Connection Between Mind-Body Trauma
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
Module 5: Trauma — The Hidden Curse in Your Relationships
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
Module 6: Leaky Boundaries Lead to Leaky Gut
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
Module 7: Putting the Pieces of Your Puzzle Together
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
The Trauma-Autoimmune Connection Bonus Collection
In addition to Dr. Keesha Ewers’ transformative 7-module virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Harness the Power of Vastu to Prosper, Reverse Autoimmunity, Elevate Your Mood, Attract Love, & Ignite Your Energy
Video Teaching From Dr. Keesha Ewers
Learn how the elements and the directions impact your life, relationships, health, happiness, and finances. In this video, you’ll discover the effects that your home and work environments have on your immune system, sleep quality, weight, and energy level. You’ll find out what you can do to change afflictive energies in your surroundings, and how to create sacred space in your home for spiritual connection and life improvement.
Reverse Autoimmune Disease: The Toxicant-Immune System Connection
Video Teaching From Dr. Keesha Ewers
Uncover the proper ways to test for a potential toxic load, and discover how to detox safely. In this video, you’ll learn how the immune system works, what happens when it begins attacking you, and how to use the four corners of the Freedom Framework to solve your own puzzle. You’ll also explore certain toxicants, how they can impact your immune system, where they come from, and how to avoid them.
Energetic Healing of Your Personal & Intergenerational Trauma
PDF Guide From Dr. Keesha Ewers
Your body uses a complex, sophisticated system to communicate among its parts. Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine both have a deep understanding of the information highways that your body uses to transport information. These channels are called marma points, nadis, and meridians — and when they’re blocked, information doesn’t get to your cells and organs properly, which can result in autoimmunity and even cancer. The six tools in this PDF work with the body's innate intelligence to help establish a self-regulating energy system that can lead to autoimmune reversal when combined with the other elements your body is asking for.
What People Are Saying About Dr. Keesha Ewers…
“Thanks for being such a great teacher, mentor, and inspiration.”
I really love Dr. Keesha Ewers’ work! It came to me so wonderfully timed, when I'd begun to sense a connection between my body’s suffering and the grooves of early trauma. The way she tied autoimmunity to self-destructive impulses and trauma was a R-E-V-E-L-A-T-I-O-N. Thanks for being such a great teacher, mentor, and inspiration.
— Julie Jewell
“The more I use Dr. Keesha's recommendations, the stronger I feel that she is definitely one of the top medical providers available.”
The more I use Dr. Keesha's recommendations, the stronger I feel that she is definitely one of the top medical providers available. My mood is excellent, I am sleeping like the dead without pharmaceuticals, and my energy is getting much better than it was in the beginning of the pandemic when we were all stressed out. I still have trouble with physical activity and stress, but I am making progress!
— Katie M.
“This was truly miraculous work and I feel so blessed.”
I arrived dizzy and with ringing in my ears, and after two days at Dr. Keesha’s retreat, it was gone. I am amazed. This was truly miraculous work and I feel so blessed.
— Hester
“I’m on the wonderful journey of creating the rest of my life!”
I’ve become so aware of how much our emotions affect the health of our guts. It really helps me to say hello to the anxiety and then go on about my business. Then it doesn't have power over me like it did before. I’m on the wonderful journey of creating the rest of my life! Thank you for being a treasured part of that! [Dr. Keesha] really speaks to and moves me. I’m here to stay!
— Lydia Chasen
“I am feeling so much freedom.”
I highly recommend Dr. Keesha Ewers’ work. I have done a lot of personal work, but the autogenic training has helped my nervous system calm down, so now I am having more insights and seeing new connections about a lot of things in my life. I am feeling so much freedom.
— Kim Clarke
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Dr. Keesha Ewers
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from Dr. Keesha Ewers, founder of the Academy for Integrative Medicine, from the comfort of your own home. Each class includes a streaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to find answers to your health challenges.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Trauma-Autoimmune Connection Bonus Collection
- Harness the Power of Vastu to Prosper, Reverse Autoimmunity, Elevate Your Mood, Attract Love, & Ignite Your Energy
Video Teaching From Dr. Keesha Ewers - Reverse Autoimmune Disease: The Toxicant-Immune System Connection
Video Teaching From Dr. Keesha Ewers - Energetic Healing of Your Personal & Intergenerational Trauma
PDF Guide From Dr. Keesha Ewers
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Trauma-Autoimmune Connection Online Training
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More Praise for Dr. Keesha Ewers...
“This is exactly what is needed in the world right now!”
Dr. Keesha’s Healing Trauma through the Chakras was a super helpful and incredibly comprehensive program. I’ve done many of the pieces of work that she included over the years, but I have never had the opportunity to integrate them all together like this. I’ve always known that healing has to happen on all levels — physical, mental, spiritual, energetic — in order to be effective, but I’ve never had the experience of working on all levels, through all ages, and through the chakras, including various cultural systems. It was really amazing to have a personal guide who has lots of experience and education and tells great stories, someone who has been there. Thank you Dr. Keesha! This is exactly what is needed in the world right now!
— Ruselle R.
“The more I use Dr. Keesha's recommendations, the stronger I feel that she is definitely one of the top medical providers available.”
The more I use Dr. Keesha’s recommendations, the stronger I feel that she is definitely one of the top medical providers available. My mood is excellent, I am sleeping like the dead without Ambien and my energy is getting much better than it was in the beginning of the pandemic, when we were all stressed out.
— Katie M.
“[Dr. Keesha] is truly a gifted healer…”
Dr. Keesha has a natural, authentic, non-threatening style of communicating. She is one of the most genuine individuals I know. I trust her like no one I’ve ever met before in my life. She is truly a gifted healer, balancing emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of individuals.
— Frankie Steffey
“I feel like God sent [Dr. Keesha] to my life.”
I couldn’t even walk without holding onto something. I struggled to get up from a seated position, and now look at me! I am walking around and getting up and down easily! Thank you so much, Dr. Keesha. I feel like God sent you to my life.
— Shelly
“I would not be in this healthy place without [Dr. Keesha].”
I can’t thank Dr. Keesha enough for helping me over the past 10 years. I am so lucky to be in this place of great health after being sick for so long. I would not be in this healthy place without her.
— Diane
About Dr. Keesha Ewers
Dr. Keesha Ewers is an integrative medicine expert, Doctor of Sexology, Family Practice ARNP, psychotherapist, and herbalist, is board-certified in functional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, and is the founder and medical director of the Academy for Integrative Medicine Health Coach Certification Program.
Dr. Keesha has been in the medical field for over 30 years. After conducting the HURT Study in 2013 (Healing Un-Resolved Trauma), she developed the HURT Model for understanding how past childhood trauma impacts adult health. This led to the creation of the You Unbroken online program for patients to heal their own trauma, and the Mystic Medicine deep immersion healing retreats she leads at her home on San Juan Island, Washington.
Dr. Keesha is a popular speaker, including at Harvard and from the TEDx stage, and the author of Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle: The Woman’s Guide to Reclaiming Emotional Freedom and Vibrant Health... The Quick and Easy Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook: Anti-Inflammatory Recipes With 7 Ingredients or Less for Busy People... and Your Libido Story: A Workbook for Women Who Want to Find, Fix, and Free Their Sexual Desire.
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